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just plum happy!

well, it's been a good season for fruit so far.... and it promises to get a bit better! just this morning a friend of m...
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posted by rickbrennospam
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by rickbrennospam

Anyone buy juice on ebay?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item#43774051&category8172 Anything wrong with this?
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posted by gregarpp
6 comments posted 23yrs posted by gregarpp

Airlock..question?

Just made my first two demijohns of wine. It has been 24 hours and was wondering what should be happening. My Bubblers...
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posted by nospammm
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by nospammm

Using "food grade" container as secondary

Hi all, I've been messing around with an old British winemaking book for a while... the problem I'm having is that whil...
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posted by matthewshepherd
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by matthewshepherd

Now about that Air

Welll howdy folks...... Yeasty Potatoes here from the other side of the tracks. I'm retired, living in an apartment and...
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posted by yeasty
3 comments posted 23yrs posted by yeasty

Destemmer

Hi, I am in New Jersey. I am looking to buy or rent or if possible, borrow a destemmer. Nothing fancy, a small batch of...
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posted by jheffner
2 comments posted 23yrs posted by jheffner

pre stemed, crushed and filtered juice.....

Looking for a resource here in the greater Chicago land area for the aforementioned. I have found several sources in th...
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posted by bgp
4 comments posted 23yrs posted by bgp

Corking

It is about that time to bottle my first wine. Yesterday I received my bottles, corks and corker. Now what next? Do I ne...
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posted by nobody
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by nobody

Re: Total SO2

> Is total SO2 different from the total ppm of SO2 that I add to my wine? I > know there is some SO2 created by yeast d...
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posted by lumeisenman
5 comments posted 23yrs posted by lumeisenman

_Black_ rosehips?!?!?!?

Just found these in a hedge outside work this lunch time - small to average sized rosehips, pretty normal looking, but...
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posted by shaun
4 comments posted 23yrs posted by shaun

Re: Sun-Cal Concentrates

Hope somebody who has used these products replies! I am sure there are some differences beings the concentrate is canne...
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posted by spamdavidk
0 comments posted 23yrs posted by spamdavidk

Redden wine with food coloring???

Among other things, I'm going to filter a couple reds to remove the "wild yeast" overtones. The medium filter (1 micron...
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posted by C2H5OHeart
1 comments posted 23yrs posted by C2H5OHeart

need for sorbate?

I plan on adding a few liters of fresh juice to last years' completed muscat and gewurtztraminer, before bottling. I ha...
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posted by lg1111
7 comments posted 23yrs posted by lg1111

Re: Wine aging machine? (no kidding)

> > > A friend recently loaned me an electric machine that ages wine using > > some sort of wave or frequency to reduce...
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posted by dirtydigger
8 comments posted 23yrs posted by dirtydigger