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thank you everybody for the support, and i want let her take the carboys or my bottles of wine.lol i guess this is my last post before shutting this computer down for the last time. ill see yall soon(i hope) when i get back on my feet again. by for now Bryan

well fellow wine makers, i came to this forum last september and i love it as much as wine making in itself, but unfortuneatly ill be gone for awhile, im getting a divorce and im lossing everything except my house, my kids( i have custody in prior marriage), and vehehicle, i will have no...

bombs as an exploding 1 gallon growler in my bedroom after backsweeting and putting a screw on cap on it, thank god it wasnt a red wine. from now on bubbler goes back on them for a few days and keep them out of bedroom.

ok, after reading this thread ive decided that yaw are crazy,:). i guess i want in on the action as well so ill be trying this this summer for it must be better than it sounds, but i do l;ove hot and spicy stuff, may even blend with my tomatoe wine.

thats funny, i hope you dont get to attached to your freinds come bottleing time.lol

thats what i love about this sight, im always learning something, just hope i can rember at least half of it:)

cool, thanks for sharing that with us , im going to make me one to keep all my goodies in, ill be using a glass jug though.:)

i use a piece of cpvc pipe with a siphon hose that i actually slip through the pipie:) works great.

in secondary: strawberry jam wine - 5 gallon pineapple from concentrate - 1 gallon jaom original recipie - 1 gallon in bulk age : muscadine and peach blend red - 3 gallons muscadine and peach blend white - 3 gallons...

correct me if im wrong, but white grape juice dosent have a lot of tannins dose it or is that just white wines that dosent? it seems to me that that would maybe just give it more body, but what do i know.:)

still bubbling this morning, should of known, you cant stop a active fermentation.:)

if you did stop fermentation at 12% with sorbate, brandy or racking wouldnt you still have a wine that would be too sweet? i would double recipie except sugar like said earlier if it were me.

did i mess up i took a sg reading and it was 1.032 so i racked into my 5 gallon carboy and i was a few inches from top, i didnt worry about it because it was still fermenting, so two days later i had the chance of getting more juice ( tonight) it was welches white grape juice (...

i never used wine calc before i based my in fo on 18 grams per liter per % of alcohol, 67.5 grams per gallon per %. im sure you should be aiming for about 800 grams per galon somewhere there abouts. im sorry i cant be of any more help.