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Bottled my first batch, a WE SE Pinot Noir, last Sunday and just got all the labels on. I redesigned the label for this wine over the last week as I wanted something a little different from the first one I did. This is a pick of the ones that I labeled and capped, these may be given away, the...

Well, racked the raspberry over to the 'boy this morning and have a pic for ya'll. Came out to about a gallon and a quart total so I filled up the gallon 'boy and a 750ml bottle. Used my coffee filter to filter out the gross lees, though the bottle is a bit cloudy from what got through, it...

Well I just have to make a label for all my wines. Here is the one for my upcoming raspberry wine. This is a scan of the actual label printed on the new color laser printer. Steve

They're multiplying. Stopped by the wine supply shop in P'cola today while I was out researching routes to a local winery for next months drive. I needed to pick up a bung for a wide mouth 1 gallon jug and bought my 3rd 'boy while I was there. Now he sits next to his brothers empty, waiting for...

Does anyone know what size bung the gallon apple jugs take? I had a standard 1 gallon drilled bung but the jugs I have a wider mouth. Thanks in advance. Steve

When racking a fruit wine to the secondary, wouldit be fine to use a cone type permanent coffee filter to pour through? This would remove most of the gross lees while lettingsome of the yeast through to continue fermentation. The permanent filters generally are gold plated and are non-reactive...

Well, I got everything I needed for my first batch of fruit wine, a raspberry that I'll finish dry and probably sweeten a bottle or 2. The fruit is in the primary right now with the sugar water cooling down enough to add the campden tablet per instructions I'm using. Will get the yeast pitched...

I hadn't thought about it till a few minutes ago, but my PDA would make a great computer to keep track of all my winemaking. Does anybody know of any software for Windows Mobile 5 for keeping track of everything? Steve

What size primary do ya'll use for your 1 gallon batches of fruit wines. I'm looking to start a raspberry or maybe a blueberry next but only want to do 1 gallon initially. I found apple juice in 1 gallon glass bottles for the secondary and I got a bucket from work that was used to hold donut...

Well at the 10th day in the secondary and just tested the SG. Reading was at .996, which is where it should be according to the instructions that came with the kit, will check tomorrow for stability and hopefully add the stabilizer and fining agent. I have tasted it a couple of times through the...

Here is a pic of the Pinot that I racked on Thur, as well as a 5th draft of my lable for non-personalized wine. You can see my primary sitting there all lonely waiting on the next kit, which I still haven't decided on.

Hi all. My name is Steve from Northwest Florida and I'm a new wine maker. Just got my first wine kit with the premier equipment kit this past weekend. I got the Selection Estate Oregon Yamhill County Pinot Noir and got it all together in the primary on Sunday. I have to say that I am normally...