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Carboy Wine Level Indicator 120 I actually tried this season adding 1 gallon quanbreasties of water and marking the divisions with masking tape and then using the masking tape... Vines 184 My experience is that when a wine tastes that good young, it may not age very well. Nothing wrong with this, just keep it in mind. Drink it while it is good and do... Inert Gas What about using Argon. Its a noble gas and heavier than air and readily available from welding supply stores. You can... Fining 355 Yeah, gelatin is really powerfull and can strip a lot out of wine. Bentonite on the other hand is fairly gentle. Isenglbutt and aparkaloid... Making an offdry wine. 363 Alright. Next (related) question. Seems like ferment to dryness is the most popular method. Now, what if I were to say that... Vine reccomendations requested Casey, Seems like wine grapevines grow just about anywhere. The trick of course is getting quality grapes. I suspect heat will be your problem. Vines tend to... Using breastrets with red wine 68 I usually sulphite to 50ppm (depending on pH) when I put in barrel. I then send off a sample after a few months. After a while you can get... VinOpinions.com needs help from winemakers Hello, Over the holidays, a few friends were sitting around talking about how a handful of critics and a few giant companies are homogenizing the wines... My wine's TA is 0.87%. What should I do Well, after replacing my overly concentrated solution of sodium hydroxide from my friends at Carlson, I measured my wine (Cabernet-Merlot) with a standardized solution and I got 0.87%. The... Sake ingredients Rice Wine: Called Sake in the Orient, rice wine is a favorite with the subtle flavors of Oriental foods.. The Japanese often warm this wine to about... when to degas The overly simple answer is never. If you bulk age long enough there will not be a problem with fuzziness. It will escape on... Clearing plum wine 118 Thanks again Dar. Yes, I am aware of bottle plants, air spaces and sediments, and the fact that... Fruit Fly Trouble 132 I think people worry too much about vinegar infection. It is easy to start vinegar with a good mother of vinegar inoculation and you can make some good vinegar. You can... Permethrin On Grapes gene Thanks for the study link. I used permethrin on my grapes to control a bad infestation of Japanese Beetles. Now that some of the grapes are becoming ripe, I... 1 tsp. Acid Blend Thanks for the comments everyone. I did use tartaric instead of acid blend based on your suggestion Tom. Not only is... Methanol aaaaaahah I can't seem to avoid getting so far what I think is an abnormal amount of methanol. I am no expert and was trying to do the following... Fruit Wine Crops Long time lurker, first time poster here. I have been making wine for a few months now... Sonoma County grape report was New to the list and wine making Up here in Sonoma County, CA we're getting lots of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Gewurtztraminer, Pinot Noit and Zinfandel. No Cabernet Sauvignon yet. Some of the Zin is coming in with low sugar... Pumpkin Wine: Any tricks 211 Hi. I am making pumpkin wine for the first time. I am also cutting into chunks - 15 pounds for... Fermentation question Werner, Do you have a hydrometer? It would help you to figure out when your primary fermentation is done. For example, I started a batch a... How do you operate a small winery 322 Maybe there is a bit of a difference in winemaking culture between Texas and other regions such as the the Pacific Northwest. While it is true that Texans tend to... Strawberry Wine Rookiewinemaker - I don't make strawberry wine so others may have a better idea. I would crush the strawberries and add most of the water you will use. If it were me I... Homebrew Exchange is now open If you make homemade beer or wine and are looking for folks to trade with, or just to share... Do I have all I need for Crush I should be harvesting a week from this coming Sat (9-30) for my 1-2 ton of Cab fruit. What I'll get is a full macrobin of fruit. I've done... reasons for winemaking 428 I spent a few years living-working in south west france and during one of these years i followed and participated in the process from pruning the vine to... pinot gris fining 233 Dan, I used bentonite soley this year on Okanagan Pinot Gris without any trouble. A couple of things I know of that affect... Reinventing the wheel part B: transfer pumps 324 Look into either the last or before last issue of Wine Maker. They had an article about using a pump to not pump the wine, but pump the air out of the... Why test pH Well, you also have the case where some acids are stronger than others. You can have a fairly low TA and a low pH if the acids are fairly... Aluminum or Stainless Steel 375 You'll be fine. When you say must, I'm buttuming that your talking about mead and other wild wines as grape must... Problems with my Sangioveses 381 Use tartaric only, it's more natural to the wine and will bring the pH down better that anything... Beginning Wine I am a beginning winemaker and decided to start with an apple cider. I placed the tannins and... Island Mists White ZinfandelWhites in genearl 422 For anyone curious, I got around to bottling this batch(yes, I did the minimum 28 days on this bathc and the one before, and probably on next two too. Trying to get... Fermenting on oak chipsLeon Millot 116 Hi Tom: Yup, conversations with an owner of a newer vineyard here in indicate we're too warm for exquisite Pinot Noir. Evidently it becomes ripe too early in the season and... pinot gris fining 307 Darin, Pp and others; I don't think Darin's 0.5gm-liter (about the same as 2 grams-gallon) is over use of bentonite... Bottles 321 I love the romance of corks and the love affair ends right about there... :) As to corks if... Standardizing NaOH and HCL Thanx for your reply Droopy. That is what I meant as far as reading the concentration of NaOH with a pH meter. And the inaccuracy of such a... Grapes in Wisconsin Bob - I haven't done much of a study, really -- I mostly just like to visit wineries. :-) A lot of them buy grapes from other places (e.g., California) as well as growing some... Sweetening Wine Darlene and anyone else of course My method is a bit different, but along the same line of thinking. I take equal amounts of... reasons for winemaking 386 Ken wrote; "I've found that it's really very difficult to get a true appraisal from friends-family-acquaintances. They don't want to say negative things about something... Iodophor and cross contamination The high acid in Baco may be a benefit for "spontaneous" wine as it should inhibit the nasty organisms that like a higher pH environment and can produce off flavors. I... fermenting I agree with Darlene. 2 weeks is a bit long. Actually there is a simple way to tell when to move it. Start your fermentation. It will get to going real strong and all the... What is the wild yeast Just my take on this: In many areas of Europe where grapes have been grown for hundreds, if not thousands of years, natural yeast has developed in the area that is... Seeking an "Acidity of the Must 101" , or an Acidity FAQ Please There are two ways to measure acidity. breastratable acidity is usually expressed as grams per... Lifting Gear for Carboys for Jack Keller's Wine Blog. Search down for March 17th, 2005. There he discusses the Carboy Lifter Martin Benke invented for Jack. There are pictures and the pictures are accurate. I can... Sucrose Here's mine - makes 3 gallons: 9 lbs Sloes (frozen) 21 pints boiling water 9lbs sugar...

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