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    How much sugar and yeast should I mix in 1 liter grape juice to get 20% alcohol?

    Depends. Have you taken a hydrometer reading yet? I doubt it's good to get you to 20%, but it may already have enough to get you to 10-ish%. No suggestions without measurement first!
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    wine from juice buckets

    I would still check total acid. You should also take a hydrometer reading before, just so you've got an idea where your wine will go and whether you need to add some sugar to hit your final abv.
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    Hi from Nova Scotia

    Welcome to the forum! Lots of knowledgeable people frequent these here parts!
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    Taps on fermentation buckets

    My Speidel 30L fermenter has a spigot and getting the wine off the lees is a snap! So I'm in favor of spigots!
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    second run experience?

    Hi all, No wine press available so I pressed my first run by hand and tossed the 'pressed' skins into a smaller fermenter along with some sugar, water and tartaric acid. It's bubbling away making me a second run. Question is: how long should I leave it on the skins? Should I leave it a little...
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    Too little campden wild fermentation started

    I just brewed a small batch (15L) letting it run wild and it tastes quite nice after a week. I tested the total acid for the wild run and it is quite close to the batch I fermented with cultured yeast and acid additions. It's a hair under 6g/L without additions, it was simply a co-ferment of...
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    gongshow during first racking

    Whew! I was worried...thanks for the feedback and I'll sip it again in a month when I rack again. :h
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    gongshow during first racking

    My wine was happily bubbling away for the past 6 days and last night, with the SG slightly above 1, I decided to rack the juice from the fermenter. My siphon tip thingi (to which hose attaches) wouldn't seal between the 2 parts and I was unable to get a steady stream going. After farting around...
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    yeast for co-fermentation?

    Yessir, I decided on Red Star Premier Cuvee. Hopefully that will not mess things up!
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    sanitizers

    First time user of StarSan here. Hard to say how well it worked until the run is done, but I didn't rinse either. I sanitized fermenters, rental crusher, hands, and equipment before crushing. Once I started handling the grapes and dealing with the must I switched over to k-meta (2 tsp in a...
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    Stoneware jugs - 2 questions

    If you're coming North to Canada, inflation is mitigated by our lower dollar so I'd say your two cents might go a long way up here! :h Hmm...hadn't thought about "seeing" things in the bottle. I'm now kinda leaning towards finding some regular old glass 1/2 gallon + 1 gallon jugs.
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    Stoneware jugs - 2 questions

    Thanks for your response Paul! As I posted in the response above, I'm considering the moonshine jugs. They look fairly high quality to me! Maybe I'll shoot Ohio stoneware an email and find out whether their product can hold up to wine...
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    Stoneware jugs - 2 questions

    Thanks to all who responded, kinda messed up this post by putting it in the wrong place then edited it in an attempt to remove! Anyhow - here's what I'm thinking for stoneware: http://www.redhillgeneralstore.com/housewares/kitchen/kitacc/Stoneware-Moonshine-Jugs.htm I like the...
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    Last Rites for Lodi's old vine growths

    Maybe members of forum near/in Lodi could get their hands on some clippings which could be re-rooted to preserve for the community? Just a random thought...
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    Last Rites for Lodi's old vine growths

    That definitely sucks. :po About 7 years back I was an indifferent red wine drinker, once I tried a Zin, my palate has rarely strayed and I always return to Zin. It would be a real shame if those specific genetics were lost to "economies of scale"...
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