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pure juice, and small quantities?
I've now bottled my second year's Shiraz production, and it raises two related questions: First, all the sources of grape juice I've found have had the PH balanced, and sugar added, in advance. Well,...
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a persistent white wine haze
I have a persistent haze in a chardonnay, made from frozen juice. The wine was finished too late to put it out for a cold stabilitzation. After completing an MLF, I couldn't get rid of a diffuse haze....
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AZ Wine Makers Meeting, March 20th, 2011
Given the state of this forum (ads for adidas jeans, sexy videos, etc.) this almost seems off topic, but AZ Wine Makers will be meeting on March 20th in Tucson. Carpooling options from Phoenix/Mesa...
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New one on me
Racked our apple wine about Christmas time. Will bottle if the weather ever breaks here. The 3 gallon carboy and gallon jugs with normal airlocks have very fine settlings on the bottom. Wine is clear...
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Aging
Now that I've topped off my orange/blueberry wine with some pure grape juice and it took off fermenting again, the brew has turned all cloudy. I assume that it will clear after the fermentation ends?
 
Apple Wine
While looking through all the home made wine sites one of the things everyone seems to be harping on is how great home made apple wine is. Has anyone here tried it and how is it?
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meaning of the term "racking"?
This just came up in and I want to check my work. AIUI, the term "racking" means transferring liquid from one container (or set) to another container (or set), so it includes both intermediate racking...
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Alcoholic strength
Novice just started making ginger beer. The receipe calls for one cup of sugar ( 200gm or 0.44 lbs )approx to every 2 litres (3.5 UK pints [4.2 USA pints] of water. Would anyone be able to give the...
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Bottle Corkers
There seems to be several sizes of corks that can be installed into a normal 1/5th wine bottle. If you're only making fairly small batches what size works the best? And what are the best sort of...
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Initial Tasting
When I finished the initial fermentation and then the second at which the sedement is mostly left behind and put the wine into the second carboy, I tried tasting the wine and it certainly didn't taste...
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Orange Wine Super Rapid Fermentation
I've tried a simple recipe off of the net for Orange wine. The first time I tried it, the fermentation bubbled like boiling water for four days and stopped almost cold. Since that was my first try...
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Re: Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
I sure am glad that delete works so well.
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Fruit Wine
What fruits have you used to make wine with and how did it turn out? I don't think my Orange wines are going to turn out very well and in one book I read they sort of hinted that it is difficult to...
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Temperature Control
How do you keep your brew temperature from cooling down at night time?
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Fruit Wine
I was reading an article on fruit wine and it said that you need to drink it young. What is young in this regard and if any of you had made fruit wine was that your experience? Seems to me that my...
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