Recent content by kirbyclk

your starting S.G will yield about a 15-16% potential alcohol so hopefully your yeast will conk out at its designed tolerance 13-14% and you wont have to backsweeten your wine due to the residual sugar left over. good luck!

did my first batch of skeeter pee following Lon's original recipe (3 bottles of ReaLemon) and it turned out great. I have a batch of island mist wildberry shiraz that I will be transferring from primary to secondary tonight and I want to use this "slurry" for another batch of pee. my...

this post/poll was started because of a post i made about my dogs getting into my primary.... here is the original thread: http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11560 just to update you guys...YES i am continuing to make the batch because i am not even sure that the dogs...

A simple demo of using a double lever hand corker if anyone finds it useful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeppzhssVG4

I made a video tonight of us using the Ferrari Automatic Bottle Filler if anyone is interested. link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUMt6qfJZ34

is the myth about a dogs mouth being cleaner than a human mouth true? :slp

Started 6 gal of Island Mist Wildberry Shiraz tonight. Placed a clean tshirt over bucket and laid the lid loosely on top. Sat it in my primary room on the floor. Went to dinner, came home and saw my primary lid in the living room. Uh oh... I go into the wine room and the tshirt is laying on...

I use a clean tshirt, pillowcase or anything to keep bugs/dust/hair out but still let air in/out.

my recipe for the concord: 10 cans Old Orchard 100% Grape 10 tsp Acid Blend 5 tsp Pectic Enzyme 5 tsp Yeast Nutrient 6.25 lbs Granulated Sugar 1 pack Yeast Lalvin 1116 Starting S.G. 1.10

as far as storing, everything is now bottled and sitting on my new 100 bottle wine rack my gf got me for christmas!

I made 5 gallons of concord, 3 gallons of white grape peach, and about 5 1-gallon batches of different juices. I used this recipe for most of them: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request181.asp that is where it says to use 2tsp. I think from now on, I will just use .5 tsp / gallon...

what kind of kit? have you already added sulfites? if so, how long ago and how much did you add?

starting in Oct 2010, I made several gallons of wine from frozen concentrate. following the recipes from jack keller and other online sites, I used 2tsp of Acid Blend per gallon. the wines are now finished and mostly bottled. they seem very tart and acidic. I was wondering if aging in the...

I am stumped at this one, never had it happen before. Made 3 Gallons of Peach - Dec 3, 2010 - Starting S.G. 1.085 - Dec 8, 2010 - Transferred to Secondary - S.G. 1.00 - Dec 11, 2010 - Racked, Sorbate, K-Meta, Degassed, Sparkalloid - S.G. .994 and here is the kicker... - Dec 27...