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Thank you for the tip. I will definitely give this a shot, can’t hurt. I’m gonna take it out of the fridge now. I’d assume by Sunday it will be back up to normal temperature. I’ll add in the pectic enzyme then.

Today is two weeks in the fridge. Nothing seems to have happened. Looks the same as the day it went in.

So when my chocolate orange was fermenting in the primary, there was quite a bit of chocolate ‘puff’ that appeared on the top of the primary. It was a dry-ish consistency that I punched back down into the must. I’m almost wondering that could have been the fat that was coming to the top...

curious on this. I have some extra red grape concentrate, not the Welches cans, that I opened in October and refrigerated. would they still be good here 6 months later? Same thing with some Niagara fruit wine base. I opened up a big jug of this in late January 2020.

Very interesting thought with the fats. I never thought about that. I managed to clear out my beer cooler and threw the carboy into there. I guess I’ll see how that works for a couple days/weeks. This will be my first ever cold crash. I kept the airlock on, I’m assuming that’s what I’m...

hey @drainsurgeon I was wondering if you ended up ever having any luck with your port clearing? I'm in a similar boat, as I started a similar port from the JK website, mine was the dark chocolate orange port. Smell's fantastic, i can pick up both the orange and chocolate, however it's been...

I’m curious @Scooter68 Can I safely assume that you have the high bush variety?

Interesting, thank you guys. Scooter, I had picked 12.5 lbs of blueberry back in July that I was gonna use to make another 6 gallon batch. Maybe I’ll just use those to make a 3 gallon batch now. Is yours ready to drink sooner than 8-12 months after you bottle? I know aging is a different...

I’m sure, at least I think I am. It was halfway down my hydrometer. And yes it tastes pretty darn sweet. Maybe once you get to around 1.025 you can’t taste much of a difference in sweetness down to 1.050? I’ve never tasted two side by side with those known SGs. Perhaps that’s a test down...

So this morning I re-checked with a different hydrometer and got the same 1.051ish reading with the winery’s wine. I put a few drops on my refractometer and that thing is showing 1.080, so that thing seems off. Although water on it measures right about 1.000. Regardless, I tend to just use my...

I am measuring with a hydrometer.

So I just finished up my blueberry wine about two weeks ago, and I checked the S.G. tonight, it was still about 1.011, which typically is very sweet for me. The recipe I used says to wait a year until it’s ready to drink. So I’m fine with the fact that it didn’t taste all that blueberry-ish...