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excellent thank you for clarifying that

yup ajmassa is right, its sort ofa way to prove to my dad that while his way worked well for him there's other ways of doing things that could be better! also for my own curiosity, i wanna see which wine will taste better worse in the long run, also which will endure being stored under less...

O no i have lost my way! My shiraz must has been sitting in a demijohn for 11 days now sitting at 996 SG. The temperature in my garage is still a hot 22 Celsius. Do i need to keep up this temperature? if so until when? I have not added nay sulfites yet but I plan to do so to half the...

thanks for the advice! just bough some sulfite and i am going to try adding some to 20ltr and doing the rest 'au natural' i really want to see and taste the difference , my dad being old school italian, never added anything to his wine BUT i can think of a couple years where i tasted his batch...

very cool, i guess your dad was italian like mine? just a guess with you being from jersey;)

Gotcha, but isnt my hyrdometer reading whats going to tell me when fermentation is done? its clearing up quite nicely though Itching to siphon it to a clean 50ltr demijohn(my dad has a spare one) to get it off the sediment thats along the bottom of the first demijohn, obviously some air...

Hello I have two questions actually but first some background info on my batch of wine. Its in a 50ltr demijohn right now, been there since sunday with airlock on and bubbles have calmed down dramtically. This is my secondary fermentation obviosuly as its airtight right now. 1) Can i take the...

Hello First itmewine maker on my own but ive been making wine since little with my dad, crushing grapes and helping him around but i never learned. Now im trying thisout for mylsef and i started with wine must in pails. So far its been great , im loving it, trying to mmix the new school...