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    Reusing Sodium Metabisulphite? Safe?

    I’m not gonna sniff it and find out 🤣
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    vehicle buying stuff

    2008 Tacoma. I miss my 2001, but had to upgrade because of my daily commute back then. This one should last until I croak. Comes in handy for pulling stumps out after hurricanes. Finally had To get front brakes at 80,000
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    Aaaaaah !

    At least it’s not 25° outside
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    Aaaaaah !

    Looking good. SG down to 1.020 Then I accidentally dropped my hydrometer in my test jar when done cleaning it. Broke my second test jar. Still on my original hydrometer. ✊ 🪵 Naming this batch “trouble”
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    Aaaaaah !

    Yeast energizer arrived this afternoon and it’s fired off nicely. Very active fermentation. I added about a dozen or so Roselle Hibiscus calyxes I had in the freezer for color and hopefully a little taste. Looks like this will be a banner year for mangos, but I don’t plan on replacing the...
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    Aaaaaah !

    Yeah I did just that. And since we live in Florida and not an igloo somewhere in the upper reaches of Canada Amazon says it’s coming tomorrow. I’m gonna wait on starting my yeast until tomorrow
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    Aaaaaah !

    Garden doing good and I made some tomato sauce today.went to put it in the chest freezer and …. Oh no ! Everything was thawed ! 😢🫣. Big bag of chicken, tomato sauce lemon lime juice, and bags and bags of mango. Oh no. Chicken and everything else in the trash can, but mango was still cool...
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    new item for Dave to make wine from!

    Surf and turf wine.
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    Newbie Home Winemaker

    Welcome. Start reading the different threads in these forums - you will learn a lot and be amused as well.
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    SECONDARY ODD SEPERATION?

    What’s the hurry. It looks so much better than the initial picture. There aren’t really that much lees from initial racking into secondary. I’m more concerned about headspace. I would siphon that gallon jug into one of those larger ones to cut down headspace and let it sit for a couple more...
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    SECONDARY ODD SEPERATION?

    Your two smaller containers have a lot of gross lees in them. looks like foam on top from active fermentation or maybe just excess gas. Some SG readings would help. If it’s fruit wine, I would personally carefully rack again and exclude as much lees as possible. A fine strainer would help...
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    Does anyone just cork and skip the shrink wrap?

    I use the steam from a boiling teakettle.
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    Brewing from home grown grapes.

    “Ferment” in the 5 gallon and move to 2 one gallon containers when fermentation winds down welcome.
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    Hello from Western NY!

    I moved from NY to Florida to escape the freezing weather.
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    Tropical punch

    6 months will work. I would stick with one or 2 kinds of juice. Look for juice concentrate with water and very few If any other ingredients. Bananas, mangos , etc good. More volume of fruit than wha you have listed there. Look for frozen fruit in the freezer section. And as noted use a...
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