Noble Muscadine crush

Picked the muscadine late yesterday and by the time we got home it was just too late to crush.  I had about 6 lbs of black beauty in the freezer.  I pulled them out and put on top of the buckets to keep them cool over the night.  By morning the frozen were defrosted and the noble was cool.  I got this crusher last year on a great deal. Only have 65lbs to crush, but it would take a couple of hours to pull the grapes from the stems and crush, or 5-7min of work in the crusher and destemmer.

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Ended up with 6 gallons of must after the crush. The acid is much lower than expected.

PH = 3.32,  TA = 40 (low), brix = 15, S.G. = 1.058

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