too cold wash: what happens?

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Hi there. I have just taken my grape juice out of the transportation containers and put it into my plastic pail- 25 litres in total at 1.075 sg.

i got the juice from the grapes using an old fashioned stove top steam juicer (there is a tray with boiling water underneath a collection tray. the grapes sit in a sieve type thing while steam is forced through them. the juice then drops down into the collection tray and then goes into cans or jars...) the water is boiling of course, but I don't know if the steam was enough to sterilize the juice (probably was, but I don't want to take the chance as my next trip out to my parents vineyard will be 365 days away). I froze the juize into bottles for the travel and have just now put the thawed juice into my pail... I want to get it going with the fermentation asap so that any remaining bacteria wont have a free day to party and procreate...


anyone know what will happen if I add my yeast starter/bomb too early? will it just delay the start, or will it kill my yeast? I don't know the temp of the wash, but I would say that it feels 'refrigerated'.

my yeast starter was 250ml of grape juice, with 5 packets of ec1118, and a crushed multivitamin tablet... (I read somewhere that yeast really likes vitamin b, so I thought 'what the heck!!!') the yeast bomb is going crazy right now with lots of foam and a ton of dropping yeast particles spinning around...


any thoughts?

skoop.