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    Pick a Wine Kit & Win a Wine Kit Giveaway

    Winexpert Eclipse Lodi Ranch 11 Cabernet Sauvignon Thanks! Haven't ordered yet, was taking a bit of a break during some large life changes. Now settled in a new area and have started into winemaking again.
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    Banana Bochet Port

    Hey Deezil, yeah I do think I did things a bit differently, though not too much. Brandy is definitely set aside - don't think I could have gotten the fermentation going if I had added that at the start. I'm not sure how you got 20 lbs of bananas and the brandy into a 1 gal carboy. While there...
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    Banana Bochet Port

    Gave this one a start on Monday, and it is happily foaming and fermenting away. I used 10 lbs of bananas in the 1 gal with the brandy, as Deezil suggested. Unfortunately I didn't get a good shot of the bananas before I added them to the primary... but they were pretty black - really on the...
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    Bochet Mead

    Very good, thanks for all that info! Excited to give this a try. I'll pick up some bananas and brandy to get that going, then get the rest of the supplies ordered!
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    Bochet Mead

    Yeah I had seen the time chart. Are you boiling the honey though, on high? Cooking it at a lower temp for those extended periods of time? The videos show you reducing the water after adding it, which didn't seem to make much sense. I've read about 6 threads on this now - though some directly...
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    Bochet Mead

    Was looking into trying a batch of this, and was curious about some of the details. So how long are people cooking the honey? Are you just cooking it on low for that many hours? High? The videos seemed to go back and forth. Are you then diluting the cooked honey with water? The video had them...
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    6th Annual MVWS Wine Competition

    Ah, very good Bob! Good luck to ya. I was hoping things were just delayed a bit and not canceled. Let us know when you're up and going and we'll organize a trip out there one day to visit!
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    6th Annual MVWS Wine Competition

    Haha, Bob won both winemaker and best of show? I could have sworn he announced at the meeting last year that it was his last competition because he was going commercial. I did modest from what I saw. Entered more wines this year and did a bit worse than last year. 1 silver medal, but that was...
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    6th Annual MVWS Wine Competition

    Congrats, Jon!! Wish I could have made it out for the meeting. Been too busy even to log on here in the longest while! Ugh. At any rate, looking forward to getting some quality feedback in a few days!
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    Vishnick - Sweet cherry wine, or maybe it's a liqueur - Advice for bottling?

    My three little jars (above), are still sitting there waiting for me to do something with them. I was actually just thinking about them the other day! I did top them up with vodka after 1 month, as recommended, but as they weren't rotten by then, I'm assuming they fermented. They all looked...
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    Blackberry Mead question

    No problem! Hard to say, but I would bet that you'd get some decent color with that. Not sure how dark, but I would think it would be decent.
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    Blackberry Mead question

    That sounds like a solid plan to me! Toss some pectin in there with the fruit puree as well, and I think you're good to go!
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    Blackberry Mead question

    I would filter anything that I'm bottling. Without it, even with a year of bulk aging, additional sediment will settle out over time, and I like flawless looking bottles. There is some discussion that filtering a big red will lose some character, but I think you're fine with a mead. I'd add a...
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    Blackberry Mead question

    k-meta stops fermentation, and sorbate prevents yeast from multiplying. So, sorbate will not really inhibit an active fermentation at all, just possibly slow it down a bit. So typically after fermentation finished you would k-meta it to stop the fermentation in it's tracks, then sorbate it to...
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    Blackberry Mead question

    If you add it after your end-fermentation racking, you could let it sit there for a while. Maybe a month or so, as long as it isn't sitting on your other lees for a while.
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