Recent content by WillShill

Just decided on earlier advice from @mainshipfred and just flushed with fresh water and then emptied another carboy of a Bordeaux blend wine kit, had a pint excess which tasted quite good.

Thanks for your quick reply, I’ve waxed a few areas and that was more precautionary, do I lightly rinse inside the barrel with fresh water, and would the barrel be fine empty until tomorrow afternoon.

Hi newbie to barrel ageing , I’ve a 23 litre new barrel which had a Chilean Malbec kit in for 30 days, I’ve just racked to a PET carboy, I’ve 3 more kits ageing and intend to barrel finish them. Do I rinse with water as after racking, I had half a glass of sediment left in the barrel, I’m just...

Been reading your threads on additions grape and oak , did the same with last kit using drawstring on pouches which let oak and grapes out, this time used parcel string and secure seal, lesson learned, still can’t believe how pouches inflate with co2 . Seems under control now, hopefully the...

It’s the EC1118 I’ve used and a grape pack in muslin pouch as well as oak chips in same pouch, I weighed grape pack with small cup which wasn’t adequate so I’ve added another cup which seems to be working now, the oak chips supposedly saturate and sink, they’ve had a small cup now as well...

Hi I’m making a Cabernet Franc , MM kit in a Fastferment, it’s going crazy ,overflowing, have added airlock and it’s filled it , was thinking about removing half a gallon into jug to reduce quantity, it’ll be reintroduced after it calms a bit,. Any thoughts or suggestions, Thanks in advance

I’ve got very little to offer in the technical phraseology descriptions etc , I know what I like and it’s dry reds, Late February 2020 we traveled to Bordeaux for my fiftieth birthday as my treat just before the covid lockdown it’s a beautiful city, wonderful food ,museums and of course really...

Well spill the beans,😀

Hi have seen these for sale and have never seen them on a carboy, don’t want to sound stupid, which way do they fit on top of carboy.

That looks great but they quite expensive in UK , double that price, I had thought of a small 12v pump instead or a hand pump brake bleeder type pump , any thoughts on these options, your pump would be great if I could justify cost and if it had other uses.

I’ve used vacuvin type products on one gallon jugs but any idea for a PET carboy which would suck it’s walls in under vacuum

I hope you level with your Amish carpenter as the purpose of your extension, with the fermenting of the devil’s buttermilk 😀

My wine is ageing in a carboy from September last year and I had planned to barrel age for a month in July this year when it’s a year old, can you offer any advice which would alter my plans, as a novice I like to pick the brains of more experienced wine makers

Chilled red wine, first had that in Spain two years ago and was surprisingly nice, broke with tradition but with the heat it worked

Well I did one of those “dirty racks”, “that looks worse typed”. I’ve almost reached the neck of carboy and blocked siphon ended transfer into carboy, I put remainder into a bottle and hope the sediment will drop in the fridge to allow me to remove headspace. Already an hour later there’s a...