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Hot water to remove the paper... SOS pad and hot water for the glue. Cheap and usually works fine for me.

The guys at The Home Vintner on 14th St north might be able to help you.

Yeah, you get 2 little or 1 big one. Same thing. Just remember to take a cup of water out of your primary to a) rinse out the juice bag, and b) rinse out those jars. Don't wanna leave anything purple out of the equation LOL!

Hi Rob I'm just outside Calgary, but I refuse to purchase anything at the Calgary Stores..the markups are pretty massive. I spend a little money on gas and drive 1.5 hrs north to Red Deer to shop at Valentine. Last week I bought 11 kits there and saved over $450 compared to Calgary prices. Worth...

Good luck with your wedding! This is just for fun, though....I made some wine for a friend's son for his wedding.

Well, I'm a RJS man...been making the CruSelect Kiwi SauvBlanc dozens of times. My wife loves it! In some cases, the 42-day process is completely done in, say, 27 days. Never had any SO2 problems...even when served at room temp. Replacing a litre or 3 of the Day 1 H2O with a clear apple-...

Another possible way to alleviate the problem is to use some copper to react w/the SO2. I keep about a yard or so of residential wiring...stripped off the insulation (& sterilized) and let it hang/swish in the carboy. You can also use it to stir in a freshly uncorked bottle. It's been years...

This is an awesome kit! Currently doing my 3rd SuperTuscan this year. The first (bottled in Feb) already tastes great!

You can also use Bentonite clay as a clearing agent. Just pick up an extra packet at your kit vendor.

Into the Garden or Down the Toilet. Oak chunks can be saved to use for BBQ smoker material...just haven't found a good food application yet.

When the going gets tough, use SOS pads.

One thing I did with a recent Chardonnay was this: I threw in about 2.5L of off the shelf juice from the grocery store... the product was from Sun-Rype and it was an Apple-Pear-Vanilla blend (a clear non-pulp juice). The result was delightful...the vanilla taste was amplified (my wife loves...

I've always used CorelDraw! to render my label ideas, then print on Avery address labels with inkjet.

Me, too. Agreed with above.

Giovannino, I get the same deal with my higher end kits, and I have not been cold stabilizing...just straight to bottle (via filter) around Day 60 to 90. I guess you could do as I do (if you do not want the diamonds or tannin sediments in your glass) and that is simply to carefully decant from...