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I keep hearing that but it worked great for me, better than I thought it would actually doing an all juice kit. Probably because I snap the lid? I had no mess, perfect fermentation, I don't know what could have been better with it.

I used a 6.5 gallon bucket as a primary for an MM All Juice, snapped the lid, but used one of those domed two-piece airlocks instead of the "S" shaped. The "S" was not keeping up with the gas being released and there was a little volcano going on there from the airlock. I caught it quickly...

I got the wine volcano when I did my first MM Chardonnay, I was freaking out, and I even had some of the extra in a separate jug. It calmed after about a day. When I did my MM Amarone, I let it sit in the primary a little longer, mixed the yeast nutrient into the primary, and then transferred...

Well I'm doing it the "finevinewines" method of drink one, make one special, hehe. I did the Valpolicella for now, and then started a Shiraz (for now again, haha) and the chocolate raspberry will be my "special." I won't be dipping into that one at all!

That's the answer that I was hoping for (that it would be ok to drink :h) I didn't know if that would make me sick. But if you say it's ok I trust you! I am really surprised at how much wine I had to displace. I have two whole bottles of just the Raspberry part of the port, without the...

I have roughly 3 bottles of extra wine that I had to take out of my carboy to make room for additives. Two of those bottles were after adding the metabisulphite & sorbate (this was for 2 batches of chocolate raspberry port I did at the same time in a 6 gallon carboy and I needed 8 cups of room...

Those are great tips Wade, and those ports also sound good, will have to add those to my "wish list!" I'm from Waterbury BTW, I think I read in another post that you go there to buy stuff. I haven't lived there in years but most of my family still does.

I'm excited to have acquired two of these kits! This will be my second kit, first port, and I did start off cheap just in case I didn't do it correctly the first time so I'm one of those guilty "first timer cheap kit buyers" haha... But I'm definitely not turned off by the process, I had fun...

That's all great news, I'm feeling MUCH better! And yes Wade, it's a plastic carboy (just a beginner, hehe).

Yes, I'll probably use water from now on! (I would just end up drinking the vodka, haha) I'm super excited, my first time making wine and just to see that stuff drop into the wine made me freak out. I'm feeling better now :h

I'm in the second stage and transferred from the bucket to the carboy on 4/17. I'm using Potassium Metabisulfite solution in my airlock, 2 grams per gallon of water. Yesterday I slid the carboy out from under the table where I keep it to take a peek, then pushed it back. When I pushed on the...