Recent content by Mike53154

I've used that method and it does work 👍

My 4-legged partner and best friend Echirou (nicknamed Echee) 🐕

Just be sure to use a "solid" rubber stopper with an airlock. Personally I only top off, if needed, with a similar wine up to just after the carboy starts to taper. 👨‍🍳

I would top off with a similar wine. What I do is go to Aldies and buy a same type wine for $3 and top off the secondary with that. I'm currently making a Wine Experts Merlot and Ill top off the secondary with a Winking Owl Merlot if needed 🤷‍♂️

Echirou. For simplicity sake I nicknamed him Echee ( pronounced e-she) 🐕

I agree 💯%. That ratio of 3:1 is too high to begin with. 2:1 seems better 🤷‍♂️

Well said 🍷

Mine are always dry. So I either sweeten them to taste or fortify them. But thanks for clarifing that should anyone else do it my way😁

I use a vinometer if it's important to know your finished wine's alcohol content. To me, I know the finished wine has an alcohol content, but as to how much 🤔 it really doesn't matter. 🤷‍♂️ However, if I'm fortifying a wine I'll use the vinometer on "both" the wine and the fortifier (brandy for...

Winking Owl has a Sweet Red that's obviously sweet. And a Cabernet Sauvignon that's semi-sweet 🤷‍♂️

Here's an idea 💡 For wine bottles I've been buying on average 1 bottle of Aldies Winking Owl brand of wine a week for around $3 each. It cost me around $2 to buy an empty wine bottle on-line or at a local wine supply store. After 1 year I'll have 52 reusable wine bottles and consumed over 10...

I normally soak my bottles in hot water with oxiclean for a couple hours and scrape the labels off with a plastic scraper and sometimes if necessary a safety razor blade 🤷‍♂️ Another great option would be to take a hairdryer and heat the lable starting on one end, as you heat the lable, peel it...

I saw many many many of these when I worked in a hospital. An old friend that got me into wine making also had one of these for his wine storage. 👍

I like the wine racks I bought years ago off Amazon.com The steel gauge is adequate that they're very durable and able to be secured to the wall at the top. 2 of them hold 60 wine bottles each and 1 holds 40 wine bottles for a total of 160 bottles. In addition I have a real heavy combination...

Use a hair dryer! Heat the label starting at one side and peel lable off as you move the heat from the dryer across the lable. Easy peezy 🤷‍♂️