Recent content by baitbucket

Hey from Houston and welcome to winemaking! There are some instructional videos for making cheap kits from Amazon on YouTube by a guy named Sicilian prince, that's what got me started as I didn't want to spend much on kits at first. Enjoy the hobby!!

fill them with water, put them in freezer and toss them in an ice chest when needed

I had something similar happen to a kit with grape skins while it sat in the secondary carboy. It also formed a thin ring around the top, kinda whitish. I googled and read about a bunch of similar situations. Best advice was to google "wine infection" and look at the pictures for comparison...

So I was doing some first time experimenting with a brake bleeder tool for degassing my Eclipse Barolo and there is now a bung in the bottom of my full of beautiful wine carboy. Question.... do I leave the bung and the wine where it is OR transfer the wine to get it off the bung to avoid any...

LOL! I bet she is an amazing cook but she's pretending to be a bad one so that you will do the cooking! You might be married to a genius! I set out some tenderized venison to defrost, not sure what I'll do with it yet but I seriously doubt anything I make will be anywhere near as pretty as...

So glad to hear it turned out good, the sangria is next in my line up for a quick drinker!

I'm still a newbie (kit wine only so far) but very much enjoying having something new and therefore exciting to learn about.... makes me feel young (course the alcohol helps too ;)) Last year was my first year to make wine and it just so happened that my neighbors were getting married early...

just curious.... I have 4, obviously still a novice ;)

I just noticed the name change myself, mostly because last year I had bought an Eclipse Barolo kit which I didn't get around to starting till a couple weeks ago and for some reason I went to look the kit up online again and discovered the change. I hear the kit is wonderful though, probably...