tartrazine
Member
Hello,
I'm pretty new to wine making and have been doing a lot of fruit wines. I have a 3 gallons of blueberry, 3 gallons of crabapple, a gallon of blackberry and a gallon of strawberry going.
Anyway I've been using rubber stoppers with holes in them for airlocks on my secondary fermenters. These things are the kind of rubber that smells like rubber, and with all the sampling I've done it seems like there is a distinct rubber taste in my wine. Am I imagining this? If this is really the case I can't imagine why anyone would ever use rubber stoppers??
My LHBS is midwest supplies as they have a large storefront at their warehouse. I see there are plastic ones available so I guess I'll be getting those but was wondering if other people noticed a similar thing?
I'm pretty new to wine making and have been doing a lot of fruit wines. I have a 3 gallons of blueberry, 3 gallons of crabapple, a gallon of blackberry and a gallon of strawberry going.
Anyway I've been using rubber stoppers with holes in them for airlocks on my secondary fermenters. These things are the kind of rubber that smells like rubber, and with all the sampling I've done it seems like there is a distinct rubber taste in my wine. Am I imagining this? If this is really the case I can't imagine why anyone would ever use rubber stoppers??
My LHBS is midwest supplies as they have a large storefront at their warehouse. I see there are plastic ones available so I guess I'll be getting those but was wondering if other people noticed a similar thing?