Recent content by Ceegar

I wouldn't worry about it. My next door neighbor is an old, full blooded Italian, speaks with real broken English, and is actually in Italy right now for a month with his wife. He doesn't know a thing about Sg and hyrdometers, yeast, etc and makes his own Concord wine in big barrels. He turned...

I know others probably just add the juice then add simple syrup, but what I did with my strawberry batch was crush and strain about 3lbs of strawberries (I used 11lbs in my 3 gal batch) then made a simple syrup substituting the juice for the water and bolied it down for a few minutes. I didn't...

You are only talking about 1.5 brix and not even a half percent abv?? I'm sorta new, so am I not seeing the issue here?

Does the cleaner have an odor to it? If so your wine might take on a hint of it but I'm not sure - I don't use that. My very first batch of wine I did was a 1 gal raspberry batch - the frozen berries cost $25 from the store!! I sanitized with sodium bisulfite but didn't rinse it afterwards...

I like to think I have a pretty wide range when it comes to the various levels of sweeteness in wines, except I can't do completely dry wines. Anything below 3% RS and it starts to go down hill for me. I use my hydrometer all the time when sweetening. I know my sweet spot is around 5% RS so...

Not knocking this forum or anything, everyone that participates has been great and you're a great bunch of people, but you wouldn't know by the postings we have 10,000 members here. Not a chance, can't be, no way, no how. What's your guess, 40-50 active posters maybe? Maybe more, I just don't...

I wonder if that will reflect out in consumer prices. I read something of the opposite that because fuel had gone up expect the fruti being shipped in to be a little more this year - who knows

Yeah, no kiddin. I saw a post from you the other day about picking raspberries. You found a honey hole I see. Damn, that's a lot of raspberries. It took me 1.5 hours to pick 10 lbs and my arms were all tore up from the prickers and my back hurt and my knees were shot afterwards - god bless ya.

I really love that Orange Muscat. It's just a tad bit sweeter than I like it but it's delish just the same. I have a 5.3 gal pail of Cali Muscat on order and I'm going to try to make some home made Orange Muscat with it - with the help and guidance from some of you folks I was hoping ;). I doubt...

Yeah, I've heard a lot about this kit and everything I've heard is good. I like to share, but I have a feeling I'll be playing the greedy port miser with this kit. I might even be hoping my wife doesn't like it, heehee. I was going to try to make some choc rasp port with some of my grapes I have...

Yes, he was very good, even after I showed obvious signs of frustration toward him in emails. I later acknowledged to him that I felt bad about the whole thing and this really wasn't his fault either. I just didn't like what he was suggesting and where he was going with this. I never even asked...

I asked George to open a kit and check to see how much was in the f-pac but he just wanted to get this behind him and issued me a refund. He was good about it and I've already spent it at his store. All is good.

Now where in my email did I say anything to suggest I added the f-pac while it was still fermenting?? The wine finished at .996. After adding the f-pac it only raised the FG to 1.000, that's it!! That's not anywhere near sweet, that's dry. I still say the f-pac bag was shorted volume somehow...

Ummmm, I wasn't going to mention the place, but that's the place I bought it from. In his defense he did say he would issue a refund in 2 weeks if I'm still not satisified. I'm just miffed that he made stuff up to make it look like I did something wrong. Want a laugh? Here's the email trail...

I started a 3 gal strawberry batch on 7/6 and it's still going. It's been struggling since it hit about 1.050. I just took a hydro reading yesterday and it has finally dropped to 1.000, so it's almost done. I was afraid it was stuck. I'm myself only rely on seeing no airlock activity along with...