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carbonation rather than aeration for H2S?

Can I simply bubble CO2 through my wine rather than racking and aerating it to scrub out H2S? It seems many winemakers...
14 comments posted 23yrs
posted by wrplace
14 comments posted 23yrs posted by wrplace

Hydrogen peroxide

Trying to lower CO2 from 50 to 20 in order to start MLF in my merlot. I "dribbled" it in a long thread of juice about t...
4 comments posted 23yrs
posted by boo.matthews
4 comments posted 23yrs posted by boo.matthews

Sanitizing fruit for cider--input, please

Hello All, Some of us have the experience of a headache when we freeze down our fermented fruit juices. I have never se...
0 comments posted 23yrs
posted by ellher
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by ellher

Isinglass equivalent solid to liquid form?

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any idea what concentration the typical isinglass solutions are made up to (e.g....
4 comments posted 23yrs
posted by benrotter
4 comments posted 23yrs posted by benrotter

Reisling in fruit wines

I was wondering why reisling (ie... ei?) is often the wine used in fruit flavoured wines, such as Apple Reisling and cr...
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posted by 4pab
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by 4pab

Malolactic fermentation in Wine kits?

A white wine kit "Sauvignon Blanc" which I started in November last year went through all its normal fermentation proce...
21 comments posted 23yrs
posted by tapan
21 comments posted 23yrs posted by tapan

bag of elderflowers broke in must

Making a kit wine. The bag of elderflowers is to be removed when racking off the primary, but now I have elderflowers e...
3 comments posted 23yrs
posted by C2H5OHeart
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by C2H5OHeart

high TA

I finally bought a acid titration kit at my LHS. I checked the batch of Blackberry wine I made about 4 months ago and i...
4 comments posted 23yrs
posted by alex-brewer
4 comments posted 23yrs posted by alex-brewer

Website with wine rack plans & suggestions

Anybody know of a website that has good plans on making a wine rack? I did a Google search of it, and it came back with...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by nobody
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by nobody

Gamay Beaujelais (sp?)

I just harvested and made wine from about 60 vines of what the nursery told me was "the Davis clone of pinot noir". The...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by dvs1
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by dvs1

Italian Oak Barrels?

After tasting a friend's Cabernet blend I am looking forward at getting a couple of oak barrels. One for red wine and 1...
10 comments posted 23yrs
posted by saracejo
10 comments posted 23yrs posted by saracejo

PDA Software for winemaking

I'm looking for Palm software for tracking winemaking numbers. Something with sulphite and sugar calculators on it woul...
1 comments posted 23yrs
posted by britt
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by britt

must tooo cold for yeast???

I mixed up my containers of must and accidently put my start up yeast into a must that was only 65 degrees warm. Did I...
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posted by ineedabiggaboat
6 comments posted 23yrs posted by ineedabiggaboat

Live and work in Australia

If anyone is interested in living and working in Australia, have a look at www.wages.com.au for jobs in all industries,...
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posted by c
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by c