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Thanks for the replies! Right now they are ripening up in some brown paper bags ... maybe tonight if they're ready I'll start cutting them up and put them in the freezer. I think the direction I take will depend on how much I ultimately end up with after I prep them. I have a couple good...

Sounds like a good excuse to start another batch... To clarify, and satisfy my curiosity, since I already added the potassium sorbate, does this mean it will not ferment? Does the potassium sorbate stay in the wine, and not settle out with the other stuff?

And to clarify, I wrote August in my original post but it was July, my months have been blending together due to an extremely hectic work schedule lately... After racking I set it in the pantry with a box over it until Labor Day when noticed the stuff in the carboy and I decided to get it off of...

Yes, potassium sorbate was added when I racked into the secondary, as per the instructions.

Well, I checked on my Riesling kit today and have some questions: I started it in late August and it fermented dry quickly and cleared nicely, but there was some sediment in the secondary (I sucked up a bit of lees when I first racked it) so last week I racked it out of the carboy back into the...

Update: Brought the pears home and decided to put them in brown paper bags for a few days to ripen up a bit... Quite a few were still pretty hard/green. They look to be some sort of Asian pear, but I'm not sure. He just called them 'canning pears' because they are a lot harder than Bartlett or...

I'm just getting started with wine making, this will be my second batch... a friend at work, also an avid wine maker, has just given me a large cooler full of pears from his trees... I currently have three 4 gallon carboys to play with, but I'll probably pick up another 6 gallon or two...

Thanks for the warm welcome... I'm looking forward to this new adventure... I'm in South Louisiana, which, as far as I'm concerned, is as 'Deep South' as you can get. I've been here a little over a year, and this is a completely different world than anywhere I've ever been in the US...

Hello, I'm just getting into wine making, always wanted to try it but never pulled the trigger... My wife surprised me with a kit the other day and here I am... Got my VDV Riesling aging away in the carboy right now, and I'm looking forward to many more in the future. Cheers