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• Posted in thread: Vinoka Hard Cranberry Lemonade kit....help on 05-19-2013 at 06:54 PM
  Hi Steve. Got most of my important material back. Windows 8 I am adapting to. Some things are
  way better others are being used for the first time and frustration sets in when I can not make
  what I thi...

• Posted in thread: mold on 05-19-2013 at 02:42 PM
  This wine I am sorry to say is drain cleaner. This is what happens when we do not use sulphite
  when setting a wine. Mold is a spore this could have come from the petals or been airborne but
  it over po...

• Posted in thread: Vinoka Hard Cranberry Lemonade kit....help on 05-19-2013 at 02:37 PM
  OK here is the home method. Ferment using half the water at mixing time. Allow to ferment clear
  and add the sugar and flavoring. use soda water 50/50 when you serve.

• Posted in thread: port. floor corker problem on 05-19-2013 at 02:34 PM
  Have you taken the mechanism apart and cleaned it? Some times excess wine from previous
  bottling gum things up clean everything up and reassemble using a very light wipe of petroleum
  jelly.

• Posted in thread: Orchard Breezin Pinot Noir Black Cherry on 05-17-2013 at 02:19 PM
  This is a fairly sweet kit. When I first took it home the flavor reminded me of a cherry cough
  syrup. I left it for months and then tried a bottle it turned out very good. It is one of my
  favorites in...

• Posted in thread: Ferm Stuck in secondary! on 05-14-2013 at 01:20 PM
  What is the temperature at?

• Posted in thread: EP Gerwurztraminer on 05-13-2013 at 01:20 AM
  Ok thanks, now I know for next time. I have an EP Amarone that I am about to get started so
  hopefully I will avoid the same problem with that. With this kit I would not rack until day
  fourteen make su...

• Posted in thread: Still fermenting after a month!!! on 05-12-2013 at 06:17 PM
  There are paper tests available. I do not think that is necessary in this particular case I
  would rack away from the sediment. I would get some fresh K-metta and do a new addition Proper
  sulphite leve...

• Posted in thread: 'Sweet" smell from commercial wine on 05-12-2013 at 04:10 PM
  I would like to venture what you are smelling is the vanillin's from extended time exposed to
  oak during barrel aging. Staves might be a better method as there is not as much surface area
  exposed and ...

• Posted in thread: Still fermenting after a month!!! on 05-12-2013 at 04:05 PM
  This could also be a case of a spontaneous MLF. Mlf bacteria love high acid environments. If
  your Campdon was old or it did not totally dissolve air born mlf bacteria could have gotten in
  during the l...