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If you start a wine kit in two different buckets you will end up with lees in the bottom of each bucket, which you can turn into two Skeeter Pee

I just googled that, really to bad cause it is my favorite show

Under French law wine must be bottled using natural cork. The traditional seal has long frustrated producers with the inconsistent amount of air it lets through and its tendency to become tainted with 2,4,6- Trichloroanisole (TCA), a compound that makes wine smell like wet cardboard. ( Bachus to...

Julie, I am not trying to remove it, was wondering if it would loose some of its power

Do you think a .50 micron filter would remove sorbate?

Just read beer sales are down and wine and spirits are up

Ladies, what would be a great gift for Christmas from a love one, excluding wine stuff.

As of now the average age is 59.8

When did Milwaukee become a state

5 days is pretty normal for it to drop to 1.000 as for the sour taste you will need to let it age for 4 month and then back sweeten it.

The slower the fermention the smoother your wine will be

Ok, I tried it had 5 gallons of Niagra wine and back sweeten it with 64 oz. of Niagra juice and it taste really well, very smoth and just like Niagra wine should

Thanks Steve, I have some Niagra wine and I was thinking wont it be better to add a it instead of sugar?

I have been doing a lot of reading on alternative ways to back sweeten wine. one of the complaints that seems to come up over and over is back sweeting with sugar can cover up the wine of its natural flavor. What some wine makers are doing is back sweetening with store boughten grape juice...

Steve, I like the idea of gas in the bag, however I feel pretty good about a double bag and water!