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  1. Mikael

    Adventures in Winemaking

    This year has been one heck of a year! Lots of changes for both of us! Me and my best friend did our wine last month. We made about 73 gallons and is looking good!!! I am going to be making a new compilation video of this tears wine and going to be posting it within a couple if weeks!
  2. Mikael

    Science VS Tradition

    Yes...I doth arrived to deliver my opinion on this topic. As Danny knows, I am a traditional wine maker. I use no additives, add no yeast, I do everything old school as I had been brought up (am Italian, lol). With that said, after the barrel process, unlike what the gentleman you were talking...
  3. Mikael

    Pre Fermentation Steps?

    ^^^^^?????
  4. Mikael

    Pre Fermentation Steps?

    All I do is get the grapes on a Sunday. The following Tuesday we crush them, punch the cap twice on Friday and then once Saturday morning. Extract the free flow, barrel it, then we press the grapes for the rest, barrel it all up. No sulphate a or anything and wait from October until Easter then...
  5. Mikael

    Our wine press....EXCITED!!!!

    Hello everyone!!!! It has, yet again, been a LONG time since posting as there hasn't been much to post about! Save but for one thing. We Unbarreled the wine back on April 14th!!!! And it came out PHENOMENAL!!!!! We are so very proud of our vintage!!!! Our wine that we had earlier wasnt...
  6. Mikael

    Ta Da!!!!

    That's no wine cellar....It's a space station.
  7. Mikael

    Ta Da!!!!

    I foresee myself getting overly drunk, hammered and passing out in an inebriated stupor on that hard floor in the future! I can't wait : D
  8. Mikael

    Ta Da!!!!

    De nada : P
  9. Mikael

    Building an Immersion Chiller

    Heyy guys! I have a question about immersion chillers. Instead of buying one, I'm looking into building one, The question I have is this...which would be the better to buy, a 3/8"s x 50' tubing or 1/2" x 50' tubing? would the greater circumference of the 1/2" flow faster cooling faster or would...
  10. Mikael

    New Videos

    Did Stephen Hawking narrate this??? LOL!!
  11. Mikael

    Our wine press....EXCITED!!!!

    next year we are making even MORE wine, lol 24 crates i believe we will be crushing : D
  12. Mikael

    Rank newb - planning my first wine from grapes

    I really haven't read much of the replies, but I noticed on your wish list you wrote down crusher/de-stemmer. you will save a HELL of a lot of money if you just buy the crusher you DO NOT NEED A DE-STEMMER!!! You will get people *and i know I will get people on me for saying this* but a LOT of...
  13. Mikael

    Mw3

    I am a PS3 guy as well!!! I refuse to play anymore COD games, the multi-player is full of kids anymore. As someone mentioned in an earlier post battlefield 3...THAT'S the way to go, its a much better online experience. you still get the occasional idiots but overall i have played this online...
  14. Mikael

    Our wine press....EXCITED!!!!

    Belated Happy Holidays Everyone!!!!! It has been some time since i have posted, really not much to post about over on this end.just struggling in life right now trying to make ends meet. I hop everyone had a great holiday season and look forward to a better year!!! So as you all know In my...
  15. Mikael

    chat room

    that stuff had one hell of a nasty aftertaste, nah, no runs, no toilet dilemmas, i however...DO NOT reccommend trying it, lol
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