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Degassing? Sounds sensible but this is the first I've heard of it. There was nothing in either of the books I have about that, nor any of the recipies I've looked at. I searched and found a couple of threads about it on here, but nothing that explains how it's done. Or if it can even be...

BTW here are the details of what I have done so far as well as a picture of what it looks like. AK

In mid-June I started a batch of plum-wine and everything seemed okay until after the first racking. Now something weird has happened. At least I think it is weird from what I've read, but this is my first batch of wine so it may not be. When I first put the mix into the carboy it looked...

Now I have a recipe for next year's batch at any rate.

If their crop of plums was anything like mine this year they might have the plums though.

You could also get a couple of 2 gallon carboys. Our local water supplier has water in two gallon glass containers (for the office water cooler) and mixing those with 1 gallon conatiners makes just about any number of gallons doable. AK

Newbie from Arkansas experimenting with wine.