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  1. Tyler1985

    New guy growin' grapes in West MI

    we have quite a few varieties. riesling resling 239 NY70 merlot181 Baco GR7 Vignoles Cab Franc Cayuga White Frontenac Gewurztraminer Shiraz De Chaunac also seedless table... i'm not sure what variety (good for eating) I think the ones in the picture of the row is Frontenac.
  2. Tyler1985

    New guy growin' grapes in West MI

    The Vineyard is about 2 miles from the lake. Between Ludington and Muskegon. I live in Whitehall which is just south of there. So far It's been a great year for grape growing in this climate zone. Dry and hot :D
  3. Tyler1985

    New guy growin' grapes in West MI

    Hi everyone, I have been working full time at my uncles vineyard since spring. Hands down the most chill and rewarding job I have had the pleasure of doing so far. I'm pretty good in the botany realm but am pretty new to wine making which is why I have arrived here. Any way.. I'm hoping to pick...
  4. Tyler1985

    ferm. not starting on blueberry batch

    I think I meant 1.08, but ya that's correct. I have a spectrometer as well... I think it was at around 22 brix.
  5. Tyler1985

    ferm. not starting on blueberry batch

    Ahh thanks.. Everything is going well as to say that my anxiety was premature :D The next morning after doing the air pumps and a little more yeast nutrient both batches were very active. SG yesterday was .80 for both batches.
  6. Tyler1985

    ferm. not starting on blueberry batch

    Thanks for the responses. I wasn't able to see them before I went back to work but here is what i did. I took some racking canes and hooked them up to some air pumps i had. I let them bubble with the lids off for about 6 hours in hopes that it would dissipate some of the kmeta. I did set the...
  7. Tyler1985

    ferm. not starting on blueberry batch

    What the Heck... The recipe says what i said before, but now I'm reading that you should never use more than a quarter teaspoon per 5 gallon batch. I put in a tsp. that doesn't sound good.
  8. Tyler1985

    ferm. not starting on blueberry batch

    Well The 5g was on the recipe that I used. 0.18 oz. (5 g) potassium metabisulfite (approximately 150 ppm SO2) I'l recheck the SG when I get back to work. If the Pot.M was to much is there any solution for getting the ferm. going?
  9. Tyler1985

    ferm. not starting on blueberry batch

    Hi everyone New to the forum here and I already got an issue. Started 2 batches of blueberry wine a little over 5gallons each. For each batch i ran 4 full gallon bags of blueberry's through a crusher and added with fruit and juice to the fermenting buckets. Mixed the sugar water which was...
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