Recent content by AWelch

Certainly thought someone would post about this log. I've only begun making wine since Jan '13. This log is geared to grape/orchard wine making, but I was able to put in the info that I needed for the Fruit and SP that I've got going. As I don't have/nor know how to use a spreadsheet as some of...

With the wife's permission I started in Jan. with a kit. I've made 3 other orders for equipment/stuff to proceed. Each later order, the wife starts complaining about me ordering this stuff. I tell her that I have to have the right tools to do the job. And she gets over it. I just made my last...

?drilled stopper got mine today as well. They do say Italian. Forgot to get drilled rubberstopper for them. Anybody know what size I need to get? Anthony

I stirred and mashed the fruit bag 4-6 times a day. For a week I scalded the spoon w/hot water. When my order of StarSan came in I made a spray btle and 1 gal jug of it. Did a search to find the ratios. Now I spray the spoon down. Wine is now racked into carboy as stated above. Very clear, but...

sg 0.0898 -0.0896 if the scale could go down that far. Tasted and smelled from thief, sour, but not rotten egg odor. Racked to clean carboy, because reading some past thread on other fruit wines were confusing. Some say leave on lees, others say lees are more or less "rotting" and imparting off...

1/28/13- four days since transferred to secondary. Fermented like crazy until yesterday. Checked sg today and is above the 0.998 mark, but not to where the hydrometer is completely sunk. I have not seen this discussed before, ?suggestions as to what is going on and what I need to do. Anthony

1st shot at this and at least I'm hitting the target, I hope. I have no scale. So here goes. 1/18/13: 3- 1 gal bags Fz Strawberries(we grew last yr) 1- 1 gal bag Fz Blueberries(we grew last yr) parceled out into Ninja and pulsed a few times to get a mush and put into nylon bag. As directed on...

Been studying/lurking here since after Christmas. First the Kudos. I got a notification when I logged on today and saw it was from an administrator, specifically "TxBrew". In a flash of thought I said "Oh heck, what in the heck have I done now." But to my surprise, he was inquiring as to how WMT...

Howdy, first post. I am starting my first wine batch in the morning. It'll be strawberry/blueberry. Immediately after transferring to the secondary, I plan on starting an SP with the slurry. Does the slurry mean I use the lees in the bottom and the fruit in the nylon bag? Or just the lees? I...