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Is there any way to harvest and save the MLB from your grape fermentation? Seems like a bit of a waste to buy another packet (at $8-10/g) for every wine over and over. How much MLB is left in wine after the post-fermentation sulphiting and aging? Is there anyway to inoculate oak spirals or...

Making my first wine. It is about 7 weeks old. After primary and MLF, the pH has risen from 3.5-3.6 to 3.8 and the TA has fallen from 7 g/l to 5.5 g/l. The grapes were Malbec grapes from Washington, USA. When I first got the frozen must, I raised the TA with 1 g/l of tartaric acid. The...

I'm making a malbec from frozen grapes. Been going for about 6 weeks now. Everytime I take the pH (pH meter) reading of this wine, it changes. Over the past four weeks I have gotten results from 3.3-3.8. The wine is split into two carboys. The pH between the carboys seems to be the same...

I was thinking about getting some Chilean grapes in May. Is there anything wrong or not desirable about fermenting 80-100 lbs of grapes along with 5-6 gal. of juice? It is a shortcut (and cost saver) to getting to 10-12 gal. of wine rather than getting 200 lbs of grapes. I would plan to get...

Ok, I have a pH meter which makes testing red wines easy. However, to save NaOH solution (and wine), it makes sense to use like 10 ml of wine, and some 8.2 pH dilution fluid to cover the probe. Got it. However, I've had a tough time making 8.2 solution from distilled water and NaOH. First...

Does anyone re-use the bags in boxed wine for their homemade wine? For dispensing by the glass, nothing beats a bag. Plus, the wine will age better in a 3L container than a 750 ml container. I did search the forums twice; surprised this hasn't been asked before. If it has, I apologize ;-)

I'm about 2 days into fermenting some previously frozen crushed grapes. This is my first batch, so I'm probably obsessing a bit LOL I read everywhere that red wine should be fermented between 80-90 deg. But what temp. is everyone talking about? I took temp. this morning and the cap was 93...