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I have one kit and realized that I should probably get a second, so that is on order. In the meantime, I'd like to scheme out a plan. My wife and I love LBV Ports but we are not huge fans of Tawny or Ruby. What can I do to encourage a more LBV character from this kit? I do have a Vadai...

After primary fermentation on a batch of plum wine, I poured the top of the remaining gross lees into a wine bottle to help separate off any remaining wine. I had already decanted most of this, but was holding out for a little more. This morning, I discovered that my mother-in-law drank about...

Free SO2/PH/TA testing in the Twin Cities Not sure if this would be better in the classified section, but I'll post here and let any mods set me straight. I have a Vinmetrica SC-300 and the reagents are only supposed to be good for 6 months. For me this means through about mid June. I...

Is there anything that I can do about it while it is full? My wife bought me a 23L Vadai barrel for Christmas. It came a little late --mid January. I preped it early February and it sealed up well. I've done two back-to-back Chardonnay barrel ferments in at two weeks each with it no...

I started making wine a year ago and have been using Star San as a sanitizer for all of my equipment. I thought that it was doing well, but recently ran across some articles that suggest that Star San may be a poor choice for sanitizing my glass containers. The information that I found was...

I got a Vadai barrel for Christmas so I started trying to plan out how to make sure that I am always using it. Realizing that I needed to solve a resource scheduling problem, I looked for gantt tools with resource scheduling visualizations. Found this...

I am on my fourth kit. WE Coastal White that I got with a groupon (really good deal, but I wish they would have let me pay extra to trade up from a BB to a glass carboy or that I could have upgraded the wine kit). While this is my fourth kit, it is the first one on which I followed the...