Recent content by M4rotku

My wife and I just finished bottling it at 1:30 a.m. I have an awesome wife. It smelled good as we bottled it, maybe a little bit oxidized. I started the kit around January or February of this year. Thank you everyone for all your help!

😂 I started with cider, so brew is still my default verb. Do we vint wine? Or just make it? Make seems so generic.

I have been using carboys for all of the secondary vessels. For primary, I used my stainless steel conical with an airlock. I have topped all of the carboys up with store-bought wine after every racking. As far as I can tell, the only time it may have been exposed to oxygen is when I opened...

I think that the main container is a bit oxidize, but hopefully still drinkable. And I made the mistake of adding the sample I pulled back into the main container before realizing how oxidized it was.

Thanks guys. I put the clarifying agents in a few weeks ago, so there is a decent amount of sediment on the bottom. Is it worth racking to new containers in order to add the K-meta? Otherwise I plan to bottle out of the current carboy to avoid exposing it to more oxygen. Or do you think I...

Hey all, I am brewing my first grape wine kit after lots of experience with country wines. I have never had my other wines oxidize, and I am generally very careful to prevent it. However, I just tasted a sample of my shiraz blend kit that I decided to bulk age instead of bottling right away...