Was wondering what ratio you wound up with? Am trying bench trials with crabapple juice and a high TA (bad) white grape wine. So far 1:5 tastes...
The temperature looks fine. Yeast produces heat as it ferments. The heating pad is more work than worth, you are only 2.5 degrees between them. A...
seems everything comes out when I spray them with a garden hose (outside). Can get most of the specks out with the kitchen sink sprayer, probably...
* god invented grape as the ideal substrate to make wine with. . . it happens in nature without any intervention, without worrying about...
You have an interesting set of ingredients. That said my favorite wine in 2017 was an elderberry recipe where if it said water I put in concord...
* A guess (I have not grown red gooseberry) . . . you probably have not had a significant increase in pH with 2.7% of other fruit so it is...
Mary Lou, gooseberry makes a good acid based wine (like rhurbarb or cranberry wine). The green variety I have pressed out juice this year with pH...
Bug-A-salt is for shooting bugs with salt, , , wonder if it would work with diatomaceous earth?
Virginia has heat and fungal spores. Good luck with the spraying program
Very wise!:br
* from a practical point of view we can do a horizontal transfer with 5 inches of vacuum. Yes if you have the carboy on the floor and want to lift...
Acid is part of the preservative system in wine which helps in keeping bad microbes out and helps with preventing oxidation (oxidized ethyl...
an example; the blueberry I bought last year was pH 2.83, so grav 1.050, with a TA of 1.32. My preference is lots of flavor. To get the TA in...
[ATTACH] Shane, thought you might be interested in my first look at Itasca. (Have not done any chemistry’s yet) Have fun dreaming about the crop!
The issue is balance which means consumer acceptability depends on other things as tannin, unfermentable sugars (honey is a totally different...
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