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I throw them in a bucket and wet them in sulfite solution. As I am setting up I throw them in the bucket and 5 minutes later, as the bottles fill I fish them out, shake them off and pop them in the corker. Never had a problem

cmason1957 . . .2 glasses per bottle??? you know that's a beer mug you are drinking it with???:HB

I limit myself to 3 bottles per week, maybe 4 if my wife gets thirsty. I have an inventory of about 300 bottles, well 150 in bottles and 150 aging 'in cask' (glass carboy). 3 bottles per week means that I never start on a batch until it is at least a year old and I finish it before 2 years (I...

Is the Cru line from Okanagan? I just assumed they got their juice from wherever. I am also Canadian. I like the Cru Select (when on sale). The 12 l vs 18 question is interesting. The only problem that I can see with concentration is if they use a lot of heat in the evapouration. If they...

bagging is a pain, The loose skins stay in the primary fermenter during the racking unless you are transferring with a very large hose. I just slop the remaining wet mess into the compost. If you are bagging and want to reuse the bag then cleanup is tedious and sanitation on the reused bag...

Being an retired guy with time on my hands I wrote a pc app for creating labels. The top 4 lines input relevant data. The selections on the right choose the photo for the background. The output is a .jpg file of 8 labels/ sheet that I take down to my local Staples and print on their colour...

Straight in . . . . wood has its own antiseptics same reason a wooden cutting board is more sanitary than a plastic one