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brew shop recomendations??

Can anyone recomend a good brew/winmaking shop in Central IL? Bloomington would be ideal or champane/urbana. Peoria wou...
8 comments posted 23yrs
posted by daveallyn
8 comments posted 23yrs posted by daveallyn

Partial Retraction

NG, Recently I posted a gripe about Mayer's Cider Mill and their inability to deliver the juice I ordered. Well, 3 mont...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by winemaker
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by winemaker

Yeast question

This year, I'd like to use Lalvin RC-212 yeast in my red wine. This type of yeast is able to ferment between 12-14%. In...
3 comments posted 23yrs
posted by s.mailloux
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by s.mailloux

California Grapes in PA

Currently planning to go to Consumer's Produce in Pittsburgh for grapes. Wondering if there are sources nearer to the Ha...
4 comments posted 23yrs
posted by me2
4 comments posted 23yrs posted by me2

Maceration carbonique

I am interested in finding a site that uses this method of development and all that it includes from harvesting to prod...
1 comments posted 23yrs
posted by peter.jfinn
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by peter.jfinn

Thank you...newbie vinter

I appreciate all the advice and ideas. I take all your ideas and go back to the drawing board.....I will go to the local...
0 comments posted 23yrs
posted by nospammm
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by nospammm

Year two lessons (not) learned

This is only my second season so I'm still learning. This is what I've learned this year and the things I still can't f...
3 comments posted 23yrs
posted by starfyr
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by starfyr

[MARYLAND] PYO Grapes available

Subject: Harvest, Part Green Chardonney & Seyval Combined 16 Brix (refract) pH 3.38 TA .81 Lousy numbers, but the wasps...
0 comments posted 23yrs
posted by starfyr
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by starfyr

Stoppers

I just bottled a Cabernet Sauvignon using a combination of plastic corks and plastic stoppers. I have occasionally had...
0 comments posted 23yrs
posted by 4pab
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by 4pab

Removing labels from Wine bottles?

We like to reuse wine bottles that we bring back from wine festivials for our own wine. Is there something we can use t...
15 comments posted 23yrs
posted by gatest
15 comments posted 23yrs posted by gatest

Re: Follow up..Newbie wine making help..

> Anyway, when should you give up on a stuck fermentation? > Currently, I have the jugs sitting on a heating > pad and...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by dirtydigger
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by dirtydigger

Help!!!..newbie's first wine..

What is a real sign your wine is NOT fermenting? It's been 48 hours and my wine isnt doing much...My bubblers change li...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by nospammm
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by nospammm

australian elderberry supply

Hi everybody I am a small farmer in Victoria Australia who has spent 20 years making collections of wild elderberry tre...
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posted by kathryndavid
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by kathryndavid

Nectarines

I recently lucked into 10 free cases of nectarines that fell off of a truck. Actually the truck wrecked and I got 10 ca...
2 comments posted 23yrs
posted by grapesrus
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by grapesrus

Metro grape growing: Part ll

Okay, I have weathered rot. The grapes have gone through veraison. I have double-netted the vines to keep birds out. In...
14 comments posted 23yrs
posted by ptmcnally
14 comments posted 23yrs posted by ptmcnally