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home made wine filter

Does anyone have plans for a home made wine filter that wont cost alot to build?
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posted by burch57
9 comments posted 23yrs posted by burch57

MLF Problem....

Hi Guys... Things were going fine. Primary ferment was near the end and so I pitched the ML germ along with "germ food"...
1 comments posted 23yrs
posted by boo.matthews
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by boo.matthews

High-tech viticulture

This is interesting: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/10/31/coolsc.graperadar/index.html Tom S
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posted by toms
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by toms

Harvested today

Harvested approx 600lbs petite syrah today w/a buddy. Was worried about the weather-it was threatening to rain for 2 da...
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posted by samgoth
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by samgoth

burnt rubber problem -- mercaptan or disulfide?

I have a red wine that about a month ago developed a bad H2S problem, because I got too busy and left it on the gross l...
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posted by rkovach
18 comments posted 23yrs posted by rkovach

Port

Does anyone have any special ideas or tips for making port? I'm making my first batch using an "Ultimate Ruby Port" kit...
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posted by jim.dianethompson
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by jim.dianethompson

My barrel ate the lees stirrer

OK, here's an engineering challenge... I, er, well I dropped a plastic lees stirrer into the depths of a barrel of wine...
14 comments posted 23yrs
posted by michael
14 comments posted 23yrs posted by michael

Crabapples...

Hi folks, I've got a huge pile of crab apples, mmmm... Tomorrow I'm all set to follow Jack K's recipe at http://winemak...
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posted by robin
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by robin

Sparging vs. Racking

I'm going to rack a barrel that I think has some modest H2S and I'm wondering whether I can achieve the same effect by...
16 comments posted 23yrs
posted by michael
16 comments posted 23yrs posted by michael

quick question

Sorry to ask about old information, but recently a post said that there were basically three good wine making kit compa...
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posted by ffg1
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by ffg1

secondary / time??

My wines are in secondary with headspace about 2 inches from where the neck turns into the "shoulder". There's still bu...
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posted by mlamp62
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by mlamp62

Persimmon wine question

I have come upon a way to remove the tanins from unripe wild persimmon. I would like to try making a wine from them in...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by edeaver
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by edeaver

Quick Wine

Hello to everyone, I am new to this group. I once made a batch of wine many years ago and have forgotten the art. I see...
4 comments posted 23yrs
posted by redbreast
4 comments posted 23yrs posted by redbreast

Pink sediment

I have two different wine kits going. A merlot that I racked from primary into a carboy a couple of weeks ago and chian...
1 comments posted 23yrs
posted by dave41616
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by dave41616

fining for flavour

In the recent thread "Clearing Red Wine" Tom S. made the comments >My experience with bentonite in red wine is that eve...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by stephen.small
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by stephen.small