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Little hint
A way back, someone asked about primary vessles. Jack had written that his wife made some neat little elastic banded muslin "caps" for his primaries. I had my girlfriend do the same for me, and the...
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19 years ago
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Beano for Vino
Over in the brew world, we are quite familiar with the use of Beano (basically an enzyme that converts complex sugars to simple ones that can be converted to alcohol) to reduce the terminal gravity of...
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19 years ago
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A strange ferment
Okay, a follow up to some posts I have made over the last few months. Back in February I started a 2.5 gal batch of Welch's Frozen Concord and a batch of the Niagra. I used the recipe on Jack's site...
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19 years ago
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Bottles Broke While Corking
I finally got around to bottling the final gallon of grape/elderberry wine that's been sitting in my small oak keg for several months. I've been topping it off all along and it tasted great....
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20 years ago
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Andovin vs. Lalvin vs. Red Star
I just received a couple of the Project Holiday Wine Kits from Wine Art. I had made several of these a few years ago and they are actually tasting very good right now, so even though my local...
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20 years ago
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Re: Reserve du Chateau
Kevin, "Reserve du Chateau" is a widely used appellation (see ).It simply means "[private] reserve of the castle [i.e. winery]", and is supposed to be a designation of exceptionally fine quality. If...
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20 years ago
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homemade yeast energizer?
Is there some way to grow yeast using a homemade alternative to the yeast energizer sold for wine making? I'd like to be able to re-use the yeast from one batch of fermentation for successive batches....
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17 years ago
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Extended Maceration
Question: I have never wanted to extend the maceration past dryness for fear of something bad happening, yet I hear people doing it all the time. My assumption was that these people had nice Stainless...
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17 years ago
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Stabilizing & Clearing wine
I have a question about clearing my wine...When I checked my specific gravity, prior to stabilizing, there were no air bubbles for several days and the sp gr. reading was at the lowest possible point...
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18 years ago
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Destemming by hand
Dear All I was reading the July Issue of Decanter and found an article that said one producer destemmed all their red grapes by hand preferring this to the mechanically destemming that they said was...
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19 years ago
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Wine drinking dangerous ???? :-(
Hi folks. With all the problems with alcohol seemingly rampant in the UK lately - for various reasons, cheapness, accessibility, street-cred, etc. etc. - it seems to be the fashion in the media lately...
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16 years ago
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hanna phep 5 calibration error
I am trying to calibrate my Hanna ph meter. I mixed up new solutions of 4.00 and 7.00 I hold on till CAL shows up. It says "use" 7.01 Then it says "use" "4.01" After a few seconds it says "WRNG"
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16 years ago
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when to rack?
I have a question about a couple of things on the Jack Keller web site: He is says (excerpts below) that the transfer from primary to secondary fermentation should contain all the yeast and the...
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17 years ago
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Pomegranate wine update
I started 2.6 gallons of pomegrantate wine (from pure juice) back on Dec 23. Starting data were 1.09SG, 0.65TA, and 72°F. The fermentation has slowed considerably, but is still creating little...
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17 years ago
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Sausage stuffer as a wine press?
I'm considering buying a sausage stuffer and am wondering whether it would also be suitable as a fruit press. It sure would be nice to have an expensive tool that helps me in two of my hobbies. A...
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17 years ago
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Racking from a SS Tank
We racked from a 300L SS tank to a plastic tub and back into SS using a siphon hose. It took forever. Could I just draw from the spigot or do I risk pulling out too much sediment?
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17 years ago
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[SOLVED] How can you build a DIY wine filter?
I'd like to build a DIY wine filter, so yesterday I went to Home Depot to look at the water filters they sell. They have GE filter cartridges (such as the FXUTC), which can filter particles in the...
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17 years ago
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Relationship between pitted/unpitted cherries
I am getting ready to start new batch and want to use 10 pounds of fresh cherries.. Unfortunately, I have only been able to get a hold of canned, pitted cherries. Given that the pit constitutes a...
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17 years ago
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mold on wooden press slats?
I was re-arranging my wine equipment this afternoon, and found that I had some mold growth on the slats of my wine press. I *thought* I had cleaned it really well, and had left it to dry. Anyone have...
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18 years ago
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sparkling wine
I was thinking of making some home-brew sparkling wine, only in a keg. Here is my plan so far: Purchase kegging equipment and several 3 gallon corney kegs get a decent rose wine kit ferment the kit as...
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18 years ago
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