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Viticulture question 401 CB, Here's my 2 cents. Cuttings should need almost no nutrient supplementation to grow well. Did the cuttings... New Winemaker Big Problems 4 Personally, due to the amountof time involved before one batch of wine is ready, and the fact I'm not sure which homemade wines I... Just a last visit Peacelover, I admire the loyalty you show to your friend & neighbor. I can only hope my neighbors and... Stopping fermentation 240 I've been reading this thread and decided to comment on a couple of points. First off, you shouldn't find... PET carboys and steeping Dave I'm sort of in the same boat. Started late this summer with my grandma's muscadine bush... Cold stabilization at 37F Useful or waste of time Charles E One way to get your carboy cold enough is to pretend you're making ice cream... use table salt or rock... reasons for winemaking 306 Probably not the whole purpose, and I suppose you should define "wasted". I tend to think of "wasted" as falling-down sloppy drunk... revisiting an old topic carboy stoppers The advantage of airlocks is that they will accomodate temperature variation reasonably well; the carboy is just a big thermometer. That said a solid stopper would... My first attempt at wine need some help please Hi Droopy. From a "newbie" perspective what I read as a 6 was actually the amount of the test liquid required to turn the juice sample black. I used a TA kit... Stupid Mistake Throw away or not As far as being safe or not, No I would not say it is unsafe. As a matter of fact... blueberry has issues I just bottled a batch of blueberry. It was a struggle, but well worth it, as it... A gallon of "sugar wine How much sugar would one use to make a gallon (3.8 litres) of water with a S.G. of about 1.090... Vaccuum Degbutting OK, hae a coupla carboys that I didn't rack as often as I normally do, but wanted them ready(bottled) as gifts when I visit family next month. Anyone used drawing a vaccuum... Problem: Help Hi Matthew, specific gravity is, (very) simply speaking, a measure of how much sugar is in the water, compared to water without any in. Alcohol is less dense than water and... Looking For A Good Source For Wine Bottles May be too late, but... I thought my 2 loacal wine supply stores were too high on their bottles, $13 or $15 for a dozen(case) of 750ml. I called a local winery to... Homebrew Champagne 219 I'm going to tell you one more time time: Air causes bottles shock. Expose your wine to less air, not more, if you intend to drink a wine... To top up Ray gave the best advice. Get at least one 5 gallon carboy and put the remainder into liter bottles and smaller sizes. BTW... TA not adding up Ok, so I'm rusty at my chemistry. I'll be honest about it. But, I'm having trouble getting the %TA and pH of tartaric acid to... Confused about hydrometer I buttume that you are referring to determining alcohol level when you refer to the hydrometer below. There are... Freeze concentrating brandy Well lets see, I routinely precipitate nucleic acids out of solution with ethanol at -80 C...but I use... Bottled Turbo Wine Dorothy, I started fermenting it some 6 weeks ago and the thing stopped fermenting. I did stabilize with sulfite. I am a novice winemaler and this is my... Gallon batches first container is I've recently begun using an 8qt stainless steel stockpot with lid. Found it when I was up at the local Family Dollar store for 6 bucks. I... Sharing Fun With Labels I've been doing this wine thing for about five months now, and it's been a... Clearing plum wine Hello. I hope someone can indulge a complete beginner and help me out with a few questions... regimes Collecter rapidement les informations nÈcessaires pour travailler de chez soi               &nbsp... Hard Tannins & Racking off Seeds During Ferment It sounds to me like this wine doesn't have sufficient fruit to stand up to a new barrel. I recommend that you save... Another rest period You want elitist? check out alt.food.wine now THAT's elitist. You gotta wear a bullet proof vest to voice a contrary opinion on that group. It blows me that so many who... Alternative Technique To Topping Off Wine Crazy Product Idea Hello everyone. I need your opinions on a crazy idea I had for a product recently... Americans tap wine over beer 50 glbuttes a year? That's less than one per week. I would guess that that's the average for all Americans, not just wine drinkers. "Per capita wine consumption in the United... Help me Please Agree with most everything said above. 1) You basically built you own airlock. That is fine but commercial airlocks are very cheap and much easier. Less than a dollar each. You should... how does SO2campden affect pectic enzyme raindog Jack Keller says, buried somewhere on his website, that the SO2 gas released inhibits pectic enzyme... Repitching Yeast Revisited I am really cheap and am trying to make wine out of table sugar and budget econo juice. I have lalvin 1116... First Timer: Equipment and Kit Guidance Thanks for all of your responses. I got swamped for a few days so I didn't get to check back until now. I really like the idea of being able to go into... Racking and Aging clarification please Hi. Though I've been brewing wine's since July - I'm still new at this. I'm now the proud owner of my 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th bottling in... H2s odor still lingering 45 The yeast not being happy during primary fermentation (high H2S consistent with the fermentation going reductive) may have led to some cap spoilage, if it started to dry out at... Napa Valley Floor Fruit Yea, but that's premium fruit to commercial wineries, not readily avalaible to us hobbyists. As I said in my earlier post, there... Racking and Aging clarification please Dave, Those are guidelines, fruit wine has a mind of it's own and each will behave differently. For the most part, once wine is fully fermented which is usually... First Timer Apple wine 36 The primary foamed and bubbled for about a week, then slowed down. I didn't have time to transfer it, so I added 1cup of sugar. Last night, 8 days after adding yeast, I strained... i'm sure you've heard this wine question before... 182 Duck Redbeard I've heard it recommended that if it's your first wine kit you should follow the instructions to the letter. Everything is already pre-balanced for 6 gallons; by concentrating the wine... Making wine from Zinger TeaGrapefruitlemons Glad to report that Zinger teas made from the Clbuttic Zinger teabags-lemons have been... Dissolving bentonite I've been experimenting with using bentonite to clarify. I've been trying to add it with the must before pitching the yeast. Adding it as it's packaged causes it just to settle to... Concentrate vs supermarket grape juice Not exactly correct. Grape juice may or may not increase body. After all, grape wines may be high or low in body. Grape juice is added it improve... Can H2S be measured Igor, A simple way of removing H2S is to add enough copper sulfate to produce about 0.1 ppm of copper in the wine. Then the wine should be stirred thoroughly, and... Homebrew Champagne 164 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... Fruit Fly Trouble 180 1) You can buy flying insect spray for fruit flies. I don't care what the brand or the price -- THEY DO NOT WORK...

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