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    Moscato oxidation?

    Bro/sis in law ARE looking for more of my wine. Hmmmmmmmm! Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making
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    Moscato oxidation?

    See the brown dot in middle? This 2012 Moscato from juice bucket had a really odd taste. Sort of a spoiled taste to it. Not very pleasant at all. I let it ferment from what ever BelUva inoculated with and I did my normal clean procedures on everything. I am thinking it's oxidized. The smell is...
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    MLF- First Time

    I want to try an MLF in my next buckets just to learn the process. However, if I let them bulk age properly and cleanly, do I need to even bother with an MLF? My last buckets were bulk aged for 7 months and taste fine (execpt a moscato). Should they go through MLF on their own while bulk aging...
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    Dragon Blood ooops!!

    1.024. Too sweet. I got side tracked and dumped ALL sugar instead bit by bit. Oh well, another 3 weeks won't hurt.
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    Dragon Blood ooops!!

    JEEZ IM AN IDIOT!!!!! Everything went fine...........until backsweetening and bottling. Long story short: too much sugar. So, what do I do? Do I make another smaller batch and just blend by pouring bottled DB into freshly made bucket of DB? Or can I get a few bottles of Riesling or another...
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    Cooking wine, wines made only for cooking

    Made a Apple Jalapeño as well. WAY too hot for drinking. Good for deglazing pans!!!
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    Bochet Mead

    So for the crock pot. Add the jars of honey into water in the pot, or dump honey into the pot?
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    Sweet chocolate cherry Mead fementing issue

    Yeah. Thinking a champagne yeast. With the choc being prominent , the yeast notes that get imparted won't be noticeable.
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    Sweet chocolate cherry Mead fementing issue

    Started on 9-22, yeast on 23rd, OG: 1.125. No other readings. SG: is 1.110 now.
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    Sweet chocolate cherry Mead fementing issue

    I should say I added cherries in my first batch I tried in the spring that never really fermented. I am holding off on THIS batch until secondary to add the cherries. I also just added more energizer and nutrient as I moved it from jug to bucket.
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    Sweet chocolate cherry Mead fementing issue

    Jacks recipe here: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques28.asp Did everything except KSorb and cherries. Temps in lower to mid 70s and was in a 1 gallon jug w/airlock. It has signs of much activity. Same yeast. And as it stated I switched it to a regular bucket with towel over it so I can...
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    Sweet chocolate cherry Mead fementing issue

    Making Jack Kellers recipe. I am NOT putting the cherries in until secondary. The problem is the SG is barely moving even though I see plenty of action inside. I just moved it from the one gallon carboy to a regular bucket (easier the whip up daily) and added more nutrient and energizer. Does...
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    chocolate maraschino mead...

    Mine is taking forever to ferment. I even have a heating pad underneath and always whip it up daily. Patience is a virtue and hopefully a payoff.
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    Is wine tasting BS

    I can always taste in the wine, how the vitner struggles everyday in the care of his vines. Whether a dove flew by the grapes during a rainstorm, and how the chickens were startled by the backfiring of the backhoe two farms down!!!
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