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Removing floating skins from primary - technique
Hi all. I am doing a SUPER TUSCAN wine kit from Winexpert Selection series. After pouring the concentrated grape juice into the primary and normal starting steps - they have a bag of grape skins, you...
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Napa Valley Floor Fruit
I live in Calistoga and have a neighbor that has 5 acres of Cab fruit on the valley floor. I've tasted a barrel he did from last year and it was pretty awesome already. I'm talking to him about...
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Monodale Farms in Hutto, TX
I saw this place come up in a Texas "Pick Your Own Fruit" site. There was an email address and a phone number. I tried the email address and it bounced. The phone number goes to a non-descriptive...
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fermentation
Hi everyone, I started a batch of white grapes, using cote de blanc yeast on wednesday. Initial sugar reading was 23(after adding sugar). Today, friday, the reading is 10. Does this yeast ferment that...
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Blackcurant wine - whats the best mix
Hi, I made blackcurrant wine over the last 2 years but found that the blackcurrant taste was a little too strong for me. I used 3 pounds of blackcurrants per gallon. Im just harvesting my...
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corny kegs
Do stainless corny kegs make good long-term storage and transport vessels? I am going to move and have 3 batches in secondary right now. I can get used kegs online for $15 each and I can always use...
 
corny kegs
Do stainless corny kegs make good long-term storage and transport vessels? I am going to move and have 3 batches in secondary right now. I can get used kegs online for $15 each and I can always use...
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Orange wine
Yesterday when I was checking a bottle and I found it had a lot of fine particles floating in it. Also some tartrate crystals in the bottom. I had used tartrate when making it so that explains its...
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Puzzled - please help!
Just bottled three different Pinot Noir Blends. One has shown some form of sediment that the other two haven't - almost looks like a fine lees type fallout. All the blends were bottled at the same...
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ice wine or dessert wine recipe
I have been searching for a dessert wine or like ice wine recipe for apricots or like wise fruit. Please let me know if you have tried something that works or not. Starting SG? Prob be doing about a...
 
reasons for winemaking
I read a lot of the posts here and everyone seems to get involved in the process of "getting it right" and in this process spending wads of dosh on this and that particular additive/device for making...
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Acid levels
Hello. I have two strawberry lots now underway in primaries - one with a TA of 0.3 and the second, 0.6. The .3 seems low - should I correct it? when? And what should I use? Thanks! Jack
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Juice/concentrates from Musca.com
Has anyone used juice or concentrates from The prices seem very low ... how is the quality? Thanks
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Vine growers; experience with Kaligreen?
anyone have experience with Kaligreen? Some questions; * How efective is it (one spraying versus multiple sprayings) * Given the issue of it's effectiveness only at high pH, anyone had any experience...
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cutting racking wand losses
This is somewhat of a companion question to my previous post..... By the time of bottling my one gallon batches are almost totally clear of sediment, but there's still a dusting on the bottom of the...
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