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i'm not sure. i bought it about a year ago. so not sure the shelf life.

thanks for the reply. i'll give another shot using the ph meter

newbie winemaker question... i put together 2 wines last year... the white (muscadine) in August and the red (cab sav) October. Anyways after primary fermentation i transferred these to 5 gallon stainless kegs and haven't touched them since. Before i transferred them the white TA was 9g/L and...

I picked 23# of Carlos Muscadines a few weeks ago (in my freezer now) to make about 3.5 gallons of wine. I've made a few kit and fruit wines but never muscadine. I'm using the following recipe / guidelines. http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques15.asp Question I have is reducing the acid...

Thanks for the link. I contacted them to get on their mailing list.

So just to give a little background... I've been a home-brewer (beer) for about 5 years or so. I tend to dive deep into a hobby. My garage is filled with brew equipment. For the past half year or so I've gotten an interest in wine... primarily dry red wines such as Cabernet Sauvignon. I've...

makes sense. Yes I was talking about from grapes.

I'm currently reading a document on the basics of making wine and I've gotten to the part about punching down the grape skins several times a day for various reasons. I come from the homebrew world where I've dry hopped and would basically add hops to a mesh bag and add weights (marbles) to the...

Thanks everyone... sounds like the consensus would be to keep aging until its clear and then transfer to barrel. Let sit in barrel for about 5 weeks and then start tasting until its good. By way, the barrel I've got several uses for after this wine. Wine is something new for me. I'm mainly into...

So I purchased a few things from eBay a few weeks ago when they had their 20% off everything. One was a wine kit- "Winexpert Eclipse California Lodi Ranch II". The other was a new 5 gallon oak barrel (see attached photos). On step 4 of the kit, it says "STEP 4 DAY 33-54 - POLISHING RACK/AGING"...

New to winemaking. I've been brewing beers for years. Made a few apple ciders; 1 mead and 1 wine kit. The kit I made came out great. Looking to get deeper into it!