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We need the moisture... Snowy day project.. bottling Orange Choco Port

Doing a 6 gallon batch from fresh blueberries. Following the Wine Expert "White Merlot" directions for this. Today will complete "Step 2", The SG is at 994. Looking over my notes I noticed at the very first step I used sparkalloid instead of bentonite The plan today is to go do Step 3, degassing...

An unused Pampered Chef salad mixer works great for mixing the additives.. especially K-meta, has the ounze and mL scale. The white thingy it is sitting on was salvaged from an old printer/scanner - works great for eyeing the change in color when doing acid test. Flash still not working on camera

<DIV ="mediaContainer"> <DIV ="mediaContainer">This is the result of not allowing room for the pulp bag when adding water to 6 gallon level. Pasted this video from photobucket but dont believe its working

Sons friend brought this bottle back from Mexico... Anyone tell me what this is??

Completed step 2 of my White Merlot wine kit last Tuesday... following the directions. Not sure if this is a problem. I do have about 3 inches of air space in the secondary as expected.. the fermentation has slowed considerably.. sg was 1.010 when i did the transferr. Room temp where i have the...

Preparing to do my first Kit.. WineExpert White Merlot. Will be following directions precisely. After reading step 3 (stabilizing and clearing). It brought up a question with my Raspberry/blueberry wine that is in the secondary now. On 12-4 I transferred it from the primary fermentor with sg of...

Bottled the Peach today.. had 3 gallons. Made 1 gal sweet, 1 medium sweet, and 1 dry. Turned out quite clear..

First attempt at wine... you can see errors made in the process STRAWBERRY Two Gallons Recipe used was from "Winemakers" recipe handbook by Raymond Massaccesi. All recipes in the bookare for one gallon. Multiplied the ingredients for the gallons desired except for the yeast (one packet...

Prepping the Blueberry to bottle. Had two gallons of blueberry in 5 gal carboy on the floor... Degassed using vinvac... lifted up to countertop and bonked the bottom of the carboy on the edge of the counter.. cracked it on the bottom and air shot inside the carboy... At least it didnt...

Finally got another batch going... Decided to wait on a mead and stick with a Raspberry/blueberry wine. started with 6 1/2 # Raspberry, 1# Blueberry, and 1/2 cup Red grape concentrate (addedbecause idumped into much water). Used raspberry recipe from finevinewines. Ended up with just under...

racked this beet from primary to secondary on 7-14. Racked 3x since. Sg is 994. Have not added any campden tabs. No sediment in bottom of jug. Last racking was 10-23. Not clearing up.. any suggestions. George is sending me some bentonite. Thanks

started this in the mead thread but not the proper place. 10' x 4" insulated pvc made 15 sections 8" long. ID is 4". Solid PVC to heavy and would have been hard to cut with my hand saw. Used rasp to clean off spurs and washed pvc laminated over some type of styrofoam insulation...

OK... anyone familiar with flower species.. this is a what is it question. I transplanted this early summer.. not knowing what it was at that time. This thing is a survivor.. quiet a few evenings temp in that area has been 17 degrees and its still blooming... bird bath next to it has been hard...

Well, here goes.. 6# of honey for $22.00, I better not screw up. The church ladies want in on this from beginning to end... they are just facinated at the wine making process... They think I should supply the church wine for communion.... Well.... with my expertise I would be quite nervous about...

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Ok, next item on the agenda. BLUEBERRY. Degass in the morning.. add a couple campden and sorbate.. prep it for bottling.

Turned out Ok .... thanks for everyones assistance from the forum. Last picture is of a sweet gal from church... bit of a wine lover and she gave it passing grades.. young lady is 87. Thought she was going to dance on the table.

Noticed that quite a few of you experienced winemakers refer to using Oxi Clean for cleaning your equipment prior to sanitizing. I stopped at two stores to get this product and the only oxi clean I could find was in the laundry soap area.... nothing in all purpose cleaners. I picked up a small...