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We had a storm come through. One of my scupernoogs split at the top where the two arms meet the trunk right down the middle but only for a couple inches. I secured the vine to the trellis, held the vine together, put electrical tape around it to hold the split back together, and tied a prety...

Why is my strawberry wine orange?

The yeast hasn't eaten all the sugar. It's not completely dry . There is a small amount of sweetness in the wine that I want to keep without adding anymore alcohol.

I'm stabilizing to try to keep a wine from changing much, so if I taste it one day and it is "right" I want to capture how it taste that day.

I want to stabilize wine, but not bottle it yet. Do I use the same stabilizers. And do I need to do it again before bottling?

Does anyone have any advice on adding oak chips to a five gallon carboy, what type? how much? I presume (cause I try to never assume) that I should do it after malolactic fermintation.

What are some ways to add body to red and white wines.

What is a good PH tester to get preferably one that will also test tartaric acid. I want to be able to test wine and grapes. And where is a good place to buy online.

I've got a carboy of golden delicious apple that I started back in September. It hasn't been active for 9 months. It just got these small groups of tiny bubbles on the top. Is this a natural malolactic fermentation? ------"There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip."-----

Is secondary fermintation, when the fermintation apears to slow down, the same as malolactic fermintaion? I know that malolactic fermintation is caused by a bacteria that eats malic acid and turns it into lactic acid. But is this whats happening when the bubbling slows down in fermintation or is...

I heard that one a couple of yearss ago, but I thought it was a local joke. There is a larry's pistal and Pawn in my home town of Huntsville Al. I don't think they're a chain.

One time, a long time ago. There was a woman, she didn't fus, she didn't complane, and she didn't nag. But that was one time. And it was a long time ago.

Is it ok to mix captan and seven?

can you see my pictures now? Also I have a 2 hound dogs one of them pees on my vines sometimes, I don't know if that has anything to do with it but I've heard people that don't grow vines say it might.

new pic scuppernog everything above here is dying