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Hi guys I have a grand cru cab thats bitting sitting in my glass carboy ready to be bottled. This will be my first time bottling. I heard that you should add something to the carboy before bottling. Was it potasium metabisulfite? If so how much? And should I stir it in? Also should I soak the...

So I have asked this question before but havent gotten an answer yet. I have a cab sauv wine kit. It has aged for almost 3 months in a glass carboy. The instructions said bottle it when it finished clearing. Should I bottle as is right now or should I wait a while and leave it in the car boy...

So I have a cab sauv wine kit aging. How often should I add sulphite to it? When adding should I stir it? Any tips will help!

So i started a cab wine kit January 17th. On January 28th it reached .996 and I racked it into a carboy added sulfite, sorbate, kieselsol and chitosan and i topped it off. I racked it again February 9th to get the sediments out and i topped it off. I racked it another time march 10 and there was...

So I have a carboy filled with grand cru cab. Its been racked and re racked and re racked again. I heard that if you age it in a carboy every month add kmeta. What if you bottle it? You cant add kmeta. So whats best?

So my wine finished and it's at the aging progress. I tried some and it's still a little bit bitter. Is it cause it hasn't sat long enough?

So I have about 6 growlers filled with skeeter pee. What is the shelf life of this? I want to save it for the summer but I am not sure if it will last that long before going bad. Does anyone know how long it can stay in the growlers for?? Thanks!

So my wine is done according to the instructions that came with the kit. After sobarting and clearing agents and all that good stuff. It got racked again after adding those. Now do you recommend racking it monthly? bi monthly? its in a carboy right now. I figured to age it for a few months in...

so my grand cru cab kit is done. I racked it the first time and topped it off with one bottle of cab and 3 more bottles of water. I didnt think I needed that much to top it off. For some odd reason why I racked it the first time the wine level was really low. According to the instructions it...

So I degassed my wine and I topped it off with another cab sauv. Can I degas again at any point or is it required to be done at the beginning before aging? Reason being said is I am not sure if I degassed it enough.

I know there is a section in this forum for skeeter pee but I found that I get much more feedback in this section. My skeeter pee is coming up to the two week mark when I added the rest of the ingredients and the clearing agents. According to the recipe for back sweeten it says "add 6 cups...

So after racking my grad cru wine kit from the primary to a Carboy I had a problem degassing. There wasn't enough juice to use a whip that attaches to the drill. So what I did was tilt the Carboy while using the drill whip thinking it will work. Well what happened was that the bung that is...

So my skeeter pee is sitting to clarify. Can I back sweeten at anytime? Also, the skeeter pee website said to back sweeten just pour the sugar right into the carboy and mix while doing so. Would this be okay? Would it make it cloudy? Will it fully dissolve?

So I just started this kit yesterday night with a reading of 1.085. The directions says to check back in two weeks. Should I be taking a reading every other day or at least a week into fermenting? If so, is it okay for me to open the bucket while its fermenting?

So i just racked my skeeter pee into a carboy and added the remaining kemata and sorbate and clearing agent. I want to save the yeast slurry. I have it in a mason jar right now. Would it be ok in there? Should it be refrigerated? How long will it last? Lastly, my carboy isnt filled all the way...

So I just realized that my mini car vacuum cleaner has an attachment made to pump up airbeds and tubes. This attachment would fit perfectly into plastic cork that is drilled. Would this be sufficient enough to degass my skeeter pee and my wine? If so, when do I know when its completley degassed?

I just got my Grand Cru Cab Sauv Wine Kit. I didn't want to spend the 150$ for premier grapes since this will be my first wine batch ever. Any tips or suggestions you may have before I undergo this operation will be very helpful. I have to wait until my skeeter pee is finished in my primary...

So I have two 5 gallon carboys just sitting in my room empty. I decided maybe I can make Skeeter Pee. First off, can I use my carboy as a primary fermenting vessel? Secondly, I found a recipe for a 5 gallon Skeeter Pee: For a 5 gallon batch 3 bottles of 32 oz 100% lemon juice (e.g...

Can campden tablets be used also to clean wine equipment and carboys?

So my wine kit came with several packages of C Brite. When diluting this powder with water to rise my tools do I have to rinse it off again with fresh water or just spray the c brite and then use it?