I am making a white wine from a kit and it is in its 4th step, racking and clarification. I checked on it today and I noticed condensation at the top of the carboy where there is the free space/air. I inspected the air lock which is a rubber stopper with lock and it was actually loose and it...
Does anyone use one-step for both cleaning and sanitizing? Otherwise, I have star-san now that I bought it so do I now use that and then also have to rinse with K-Meta?
Up to now I have been making wine kits. I have used one-step cleaner for my cleaning and sanitizing. I just left a homebrew store and he told me that while the one-step is effective for cleaning, he said that it is not a complete sanitizer. He said that I should be using something like...
Thank you all for the feedback and references. I am going to look at the dragons blood and I will order some juice from wine grapes direct. I heard "cheat sheet" and that is the type of prescribed approach I can follow.
I have used the brew belts and up until the other day they were perfect. Attach them and forget about them for this time of year (63-66 degrees in my house). I just had one melt/burn which has me concerned although that belt was a little compromised by the design of it. I am ordering a...
I have a bottle washer (high pressure) that attaches to my laundry sink/tub. I used to use this in my beermaking days and it is great for cleaning out wine bottles and the plastic carboys. I use this in addition to the cleaners that everyone else talked about.
Here is an example of what I...
Just a note around the brewer belt. As luck would have it, I discovered that one of my belts (blue) has melted through the case and looks to have shorted out/burned...??? I was checking on my carboy (plastic) which is in a dark closet and I smelled a weird burning smell.... That is a bit scary...
Thank you. I have not had this problem yet and I was just looking to understand what to do if I do have this problem. I like the ideas and if it is a $175 kit, the first step will be a call to the manufacturer.
In the first step of Winexpert kits, the instructions talk about not moving on with adding the yeast if the starting gravity is not within a certain range. They don't say what to do if it is higher or lower.
Any ideas on what you would do if you ever run into this problem? I have not had a...