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take any advice i can get.does it do better than boiling.I really don't do that much fruit wine.What is it worth ? Any offers ?

Yes is is stainless and there was a piece of hose and a spigot in side also,but it looks like it needs replaceing.

Does anybody know what this is and how to use it? I think it might be a fruit seamer.

Thank Appleman I had a great birthday.I have been busy makeing wine for a guy that has 4000 hybread grapes planted.I also planted hybreads and yes i willget some next year I think but only have 10 vines.Doing real well for Nevada.We made 11 gal of frontenac.

Has anybody made wine with grape leaf that C.J. Berry wrote about in his book, if so would you share the recipe with me. I just planted 10 vines this year and would love to make something from them before 3 yearsfrom now. Thanks Archie

When you bulk age wine what date would you put on the lable?The date you started it,the date you could bottle and decieded to bulk age ,or the date you bottle even if it 6mo or a year later? Archie

Thanks Wino as it worked out we didn't backsweeten at all.I had called george on sat and he said the same thing.

Joe I was thinking that it might be a little to sharp to drink right away,so I was going to back sweeten part to be able to drink now.As it turned out it tasted just fine so I didn't do anything.

I am ready to bottle tomorrow and I want to back sweeten my merlot.I was planing on useing Grape juice.I noticest that it says refrigerate after opening.I know that I have used grape juice before and not had a problem.Is it alright to use this type of juice to back sweeten?I am using Minute Maid...

Masta I checked the ph when I got home,come to find out my wife had a digital tester that goes from 0 to 20.Anyway the ph was 3.7 just about perfect,so I did some reading and found that tha receipt called for 1/2 tsp of energizer but the jar of netrient called for 1 tsp to the gal.So I added...

Masta I added 4tsp of malic acid and 1/2 cup of orange rines dried.I didn't have any tartaric acid.I will have to wait till I get home to test the ph.I did test the acid and it looked like 6% before I added the orange rines.I am at work now so I will get back to you tomrrow.Thanks again ,also...

Masta Thanks for your sugestions,What I added was Yeast netriens not energizer like the receipe called for.I thought they are the same.I don't have any thing to check the PH execpt hot tub test stripes.I think they would work tho.What should the ph run and what do add to increase it?Also what...

I am making the dry mead receipt from this web site.I used champain yeast and neutrians.It was started 1 week ago and it seems to have stalled.It has only droped from 1.08 to 1.07. Can I add more yeast or just add more neutrians?Edited by: Archie

Waldo I checked With my wife <the computer boss>and she said the font that she used is called Fraktur BT ,looks like it fits with the Dragon. If you get one of the pewter wine glasses don't use it to test new wine,it will make it taste better.

Thank you Joan. I got the pewter wine glasses about thirty years ago at pier 39 in San Fransisco. I forget what I had to pay but it was way to much.It is a good thing that I bought them then because I would never spend that much now. I had been At a crafter's house and he had demonstrated...