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I would have to agree with your "old guy". When I get my juice straight from the local grower, I ask them not to kill the wild yeast. When I get the juice home, I add nothing to it. I use a plastic bucket and carboys of plastic and glass, but I wish I had oak barrels. I have to say that I...

This is perhaps my current status as well. I didn't elaborate on it in the IP because I didn't want to taint people's responses by thinking that I have too much of a predisposition. Over my 1.5 years of wine making (thanks to a 1 gal. kit from my wife as a Christmas present!), I've made kits...

Given that my career is in the automotive industry and being a car guy, I can totally relate to this analogy. It's ironic that you mention double clutch transmissions since this is specifically the sub-industry that I work in :h Using your analogy, I can understand better. Based on the...

Hi all: I have been reading at this site for some time now, searching as well. I haven't found any answer to my conundrum, so here goes: Something that has bothered me about wine making since I started (which wasn't long ago in the relative scheme of things) is the number of chemicals...