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    Other 🎉😍 Finer wine kits anniversary sale! 35% off and lifetime discount program.

    Dang, just received two FWK kits! My bad timing strikes again. I will barely get these two out of the wine fridge and fermenting before I start harvest on my hybrid vineyard here in Nebraska. Just bottled last years harvest to get space/capacity for this years harvest!
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    Post a photo, any photo

    8 lbs.
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    North Dakota Vineyard and Wine

    That quite a bunch (600) for a hobby vineyard! I have 200 vines that give me all the work I can handle.
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    REVIEW: *allinonewinepump*

    Fancy! My wife says it's the best money I have spent on wine making equipment so.....
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    The DIETING ENCOURAGEMENT thread

    I related to something I read the other day. "My stomach is flat, the l is just silent"
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    2022, What are your plans?

    I will be making wine from my home vineyard. The Seyval Blanc, Noiret, Frontenac, and Marchal Foch will all be celebrating 10 years of age. My Petite Pearl, Chardonel and Itasca are just 3 or 4 years in the ground and I expect a decent harvest from them this year. I will, for the 3rd year in a...
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    WineMakerMag Amateur Competition

    I entered a couple times. Seemed I always had one judge that ranked the wines very significantly lower than the other two judges. So the inconsistent and large variance in ratings from judge to judge left me questioning the value of the overall process and my involvement with it.
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    Other Winemaker Mag top 100 kits 2021

    Great point and even beyond the top ten they seemed to have a "type" that leans toward sweet and fruity
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    Wine kit for sparkling wine

    I have some success with a jig I made that holds 4 bottles inverted in a bucket with salted ice bath 2 inches deep kept in deep freeze. Just have too keep an eye on them so the whole thing does not freeze.
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    Question about "oaking" or flavoring

    There are at least 72 things commercial wineries can add to wine. As not commercial wine makers we are not limited. I would say you can go from any extreme between do nothing to doing a lot of things and either way make good wine. Reading and understanding what may do what, experimenting...
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    Question about "oaking" or flavoring

    There are several bacteria you can purchase, kind of like yeast. You can get liquid or dry, over the years i have had better luck with the dry. I'd say you'd be well served to find some in depth reading materials to help you get up to speed, a book or two can get you a long way faster. Best...
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    Question about "oaking" or flavoring

    MLF is malolactic fermentation. Changes harsh malic into mellower lactic acid. Can occur naturally but to be reliable and get it done right away you need a to inoculate. As to oak. Yep anytime. I throw some chips in immediately during initial fermentation in reds. They get left behind when...
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    Timing of MLF

    Nope. If you don't have a test kit give it time held about 70 degrees so it will finish. If it is too cool it may stop and then restart when its warm. I would buy a chromatography kit and test to be sure.
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    1st MLF question.

    Stirring aka "Battonage" can also help round out the wine. Improve mouth feel. But only a bit early in process.
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