Recent content by AmityFlatts

I have not been using Chromatography paper to track,

So I have been stirring my pinots a couple times a week for a month and a half, as I go thru the MLF process. Tonight I see a couple of my 1 gallon jugs have floaties, :HB The big carboys dont have this issue. So is this ready for dumping, am I contaminated, or what do you think is going on...

I searched the forum a bit and see others have had wine overflows. I am trying to figure out from the knowledgeable on how bad I screwed up. My Pinot Gris has gone thru primary. Last night I racked it into carboys and I see no more bubbling at the airlock and I assumed it was finished. My...

FTC I appreciate the thoughts, I have lots to learn, I really have no idea what I am doing. I have made a few batches of wine, I did the dragonsblood and skeeter pee from this forum a few years ago. I got lots of grapes and read a little on Pinots and went after it. The 4 carboys of pinot...

So I racked off my lees tonight, ended up with 13 gallons, two five gallon carboys full, and one with about 3 gallons in it. I see above FTC said he was going to top off with some store bottles of wine. How does one get rid of the air space? Shall I get 3 one gallons bottles and fill...

Not trying to hijack your thread FTC The pic below looks like a lot of gross lees also, but it was about 30 minutes after pressing and putting in carboys. You can tell which bottle I filled first. The pic above was this morning at about 11 hours. When I get home tonight I hope the lees...

I am starting my MLF tonight on my Pinot Noir. I pressed it last night as the Primary was done. Since I got a packet of bacteria that does 66 gallons I am going to also MLF my Pinot Gris. I stopped at the local wine shop yesterday and they sold me Viniflora Oenos, they told me it was the...

I used a tub much like yours on my first go round this last weekend. I cut a round hole in the center of one end of the tub and put a barrel underneath it. You can see the round hole in this pic under the crusher

I have dabbled with fermentation for a long time, in the 80's I was making a little beer, I have done some wine from berries, made some skeeter pee, hard cider...... I certainly dont call myself a wine maker. 4 years ago I planted a little 320 plant vineyard. This is my first harvest. I...

My killdeer came back again this year, same row, just a couple plants over and nested again. Must be a wine name in there somewhere for the bird that keeps raising her babies in my grapes. Just a couple photos below, hope to harvest some grapes soon. I have made my fair share of mistakes...

I have been puttering in my grapes for a few years, this year will hopefully be my first harvest. I had always intended on selling my grapes to the home wine maker as I didn't think I would have enough grapes to sell to a winery. For the last couple years when I cross paths with a winery I...

I don't know what the instructions say, but that is what I spray my apple and pear trees with. I typically spray them 5 or 6 times from time I can see fruit and when I pick it. I don't like worms in my apples :w:w:w

I harvested about 75 cuttings from my buddy a couple month ago so I could fill in the holes in my vineyard that didnt survive the transplant last year. Out of 320 plants I had 34 that didnt make it. Some of them had fairly large root structres, I dont know how they didnt survive. Today I...

I put 5 inch post on my 150 foot rows and they look plenty big, they havent carried any weight yet though.

I have read the process to callus the cut and get roots. I did none of that and think I had around 75% + success on plants rooting and growing, and I am not sure some of the ones that didnt grow were not planted upside down. :slp When I dug up my plants from where they spent their first year...