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when degbutting looks like aeration Degbutted my first kit wine (VR chianti) today...here's what I did... Got me one of those drill driven degbutting paddle deals, the one that fits... Sanatizing Wine Bottles Danny, Apologies, I have been traveling. Here is what I do; I have a bottle tree; it's as necessary as a corker as... Bordeaux Style 52 We would not have to adopt the stringent requirements you mentioned. My idea would allow each AVA to produce a blend made from whatever grapes they grow in the... Using innert gas in a large head space 197 Good point Droopy. That is a third problem. Diffution due to concentration differences. I don't know that it is a larger problem than the other two but it is a different problem. Good... Bordeaux Style 100 Andy You have made some valid points. The whole problem as I see it is the naming of BLENDS. Naming a wine after a single varital is no problem. Surely, however, you have... Baco Noir First Time Hi Folks, I've been making wine for a couple of years now from kits and also trying my own from different varieties... Blackberries Jack 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 so at... a complicated wine math question 125 To answer yuor question, no. (In my opinion.) I use pH to decide how much sulfite I need and to get... Presses versus an old washing machine 138 Andy, Welded my press together, with a temporary basket support and using a brand new wire mesh trash can I got at Home Depot as the basket... Wine grapes in UK 55 An update. Got 90 kg of Sangiovese today. They were in excellent condition and think they were only picked last Friday in... Baco Noir First Time Revisited Ian - Don't add the extra sugar. You will end up with more fermentable sugar than any yeast can handle...the yeast will quit... Anyone made Pomegranite wine TT Hi Tom, pomegranite is high in acid. If this is the case you may want to try making a melomel from the juice, or from the fruit. One of the problem... First Timer Apple wine 44 Do play with your hydrometer. It is the winemakers easiest to use and best tool. Champagne yeast is... Foch Final Acid High Herman Krug wrote in message Herman - You can do lots to lower acid in Foch or other high acid grapes. 1. Amelioration - Foch has... Before I begin. 185 Alan - Yes, I normally ferment with the fruit or whatever for the first week or so, which is normally when fermentation starts to subside a bit. Potbuttium sorbate... Sbuttafrbutt Wine question DAZ928 Here's how I make a starter. Its given me good results. My method is sort of a hodgepoge of what I've read on the net and stuff I just made up... Aging If a wine tastes yeasty, it is probably because it still has yeast in it. It has not totally cleared even if you think it... UK damson wine Here's a recipe from my dim distant past. It will produce a wine of about 12 %abv. I confess it... Some Place Near Erie, PA Bob, funny you should mention the recommendation to the compebreastion. It isn't the local winery that is the compebreastion here, they all produce similar wines from the... One Step No Rinse Cleaner Bob, I second Joe's advice. Sterility is neither attainable nor necessary in winemaking. Cleanliness, however, is. Wine has been used throughout history to disinfect drinking water, so... Bottling Champagne 106 privates, I am a little confused by your terminology, was the secondary fermentation an actual re-ferment of sugar or is the pressure the result... Muscadine SecondRun Bart, I've got an old edition of the book "The Art of Making Wine"by Stanley Anderson. His recipe is below. I've used it a number of... Cranberry Wine from Juice Recipes Joel Sprague I will post a recipe I drummed up to use up a gallon... Chancellor Final Came Around Anyone have much experience with Chancellor? I made one back in '98 that is finally drinkable. It was black with tannins because I left... Results of my first Welch's experiment I'm working on winemaking basics by making small batches of white wine. I am using that Welch's white grape concentrate that has been discussed on here before. I prepare a gallon, which... Niagara Question Vidal Blanc Question Hey newsgroup! It has been a long time since I have been on here. I have a couple of questions... - please keep in... So, what's everybody made this season, and whaddya sipping 179 I'm sugar feeding a mixed berry port I made from red and black raspberries, frozen blueberries, mulberries frim the tree in my yard, elderberries from a... ACID BLEND QUESTION As another poster mentioned, acid blend on its own won't balance bitterness. You might want to taste the wine... Stuck Primary Fermintation It has Now Started I'm buttuming this is the Gewurtztraminer wine we're still talking about... The most important parameters in my experience for maintaining fruitiness after primary ferment are: 1) rack... Island Mists White ZinfandelWhites in genearl 17 By standard kit I was merely referring to it being a 7.5L kit, packets of yeast, pot meta, etc. I know it's a light picnic type "wine", or wine based beverage... Floor corker malfunctioning The following is a scenario I've seen on 2 separate Italian corkers: as the handle... Understanding Wine Technology David Bird You know, Joe, I have to disagree on Yair Margalit's "Winery Technology & Operations" (I'm leafing through it now). I'm really less enthuiastic about this book... although obviously you've... Cranberry Fruit Wine Base Sodium Bisulfite or Potbuttium Metabisulfite Here is the original 3 gallon recipe: 3 gallon recipe (fuller flavor and body) 1 - 96 oz. can Cranberry fruit wine base product 3 cans warm water (2.6 gallon) 6 lbs. white table... Using breastrets with red wine 92 fasteddy999 Accuvin has paper strip, colour change based tests for several variables, including free S)2. They have 2 colour strips for that one... MLF, Oak, Chardonnay, evOak staves Questions Good Evening- I've been speaking to a few people here privately around oaking different wines and upon their advice have purchased some Stavin cubes, medium and medium + toasts. My first foray into... Boycott Gettysburg Link to photos showing how the battlefield looked before superintendent John Latschar raped it. We loved... Limoncello recipe This is how I made a batch, I hear better vodka makes a difference but can't seem to believe that given the... Centrifuging wine update Tom mentioned a while back he uses a washing machine centrifuge. Some front load washing machines spin at 1200-1500 RPM. About twice the speed of uprights. The secret in making front load washers... Better Bottle was: Cranberry Mel On 2-6-2006 12:11 PM, Ray Calvert thread snipped cross-posted to rec.crafts.winemaking as a follow-up to the discussion on Better Bottles held there in... experienced brewer, about to start wine making 30 Scott Lindner Maybe if you top up with more wine you could see an increase in body, I suppose... Pumpkin Wine: Any tricks 77 StuPedaso I just caught this thread, so I'll insert some observations I have gathered from making pumpkin beer. I wasn't making a normal pumpkin beer where pumpkin... Inexpensive Wine Filling Rack 01 I've built a simple and inexpensive but effective wine filling rack from common Home Depot materials and thought I might share it with the group in case others are interested. I'm sure there are... make tons of cash EASY What is $5 and 15 minutes when it can make you earn $100,000 ? Not much, if you ask me... You've probably... So, what's everybody made this season, and whaddya sipping 78 Hi Bill, I've done 2 grades of blackberry, heavy, using 6lbs of fruit to the gallon, and medium using 3 - 4 lbs... Anyone using a "heat pipe" to cool fermenter How about a peltier driven heatpipe Bill Velek (months ago) What no one mentioned about a heat pipe is how they work. When a heat pipe...

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