Wine Kits and Wine Qualitygene Well, the things that can infect your wine will be present in your winery microenvironment to begin with. The relative concentrations can change, like it has...
Well P.S. our wine club has a Champagne party every July. Members bring homemade sparkling wine, store bought and in one instance a keg of carbonated white wine. The fellow that made the keg sparkler is a professional winemaker and he made this up at the last minute. It was all foam.
BlackberriesJack Keller's site has quite a wide selection of them, check under My experience is that lighter blackberry wines (made with 3 - 4 lbs of fruit per gallon) take a year or...
I'm also a beer maker and have lots of experience with 5-gallon soda kegs. If you go ahead with your plan be sure to avoid any air in contact with your wine. Air and wine mixed together, even for a day, will lead to oxidation and you will hate the result. To do this fill the keg to the brim with water. Seal and pressurize. Then empty the keg through the tap which leaves you with a CO2 filled keg. Bleed off the pressure and carefully open the top. Add your wine. Seal and pressurize. Chill and check pressure again. If you use a short hose to the tap you will end up releasing all the carbonation as soon as the wine is dispensed...a glbutt of foam with no residual CO2 to form those nice little bubbles. Use a long hose...about 8 feet between the keg and tap. This will let you pour a glbutt of sparkling wine that will resemble Champagne. Good luck.
Bill Frazier Olathe, Kansas USA
