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I'm about 2 weeks into a WE Chocolate Raspberry and know that the port kits frequently stall out after chaptalization. I really babied this thing: maintained it at a steady 75, gave it some breathing room (oxygen) during the process, and made sure it got a good swirl daily to re suspend the...

I just got a Chocolate Raspberry Port kit in and proceeded to pull the trigger on the Black Forest a couple days later. If I fortify, I would probably just use a single bottle of brandy in a 3-gallon batch, and rack onto that until the carboy is topped off. I see a lot of back-and-forth on...

I'm just over 7 days into a kit, hit my target gravity range, and was racking over to secondary per instructions when I noticed an oily sheen on the surface of my wine. It isn't white (only noticeable if you catch the light perfectly) and there's still fermentation going on, but could this be...