Recent content by brixmitch

Also wanted to point out that omitting the word "wine" while searching "all in one vacuum pump" yields a whole different type of vacuum pump. Link is here: All In One Wine Pump

"even if you're a Dodger fan" - too funny!

Excellent, thanks for this!

Sound advice, thanks!

Great info - thanks! I'm in LA - the South Bay area. How many gallons? Well, the next batch will be 1 gallon. After that, who knows?

Haha! Thumbs up on that.

Thanks!

Thank you! Greatly appreciate your insight. The filtering is primarily due to my ineptness in siphoning the wine into bottles, picked up quite a bit of lees in the process. I'd like to get a siphon / bottle filler / filter combo if such a beast exists. Any recommendations on web stores for...

Hello all - my daughter got me a very barebones kit for Christmas last year. Made a 1 gallon batch of cab sauv, which turned out okay. I suspect it would've been better had I known I needed a thermometer, hydrometer, filter and etc. A very barebones kit indeed. Going to buy some more equipment...