Recent content by ybl84f1

Thanks all and especially @winemaker81 for the detailed response - appreciate all the great tips. I guess I'm on the hunt now for some smaller containers! As far as discarding the wine from the SG testing, I made my first kit only a few months ago with a buddy who brews beer and...well....we...

This topic spawned all sorts of unstructured questions about "topping up" in my head. Adding store bought wine feels like I'm doing something wrong and compromising my wine that I put so much work into. I'm just beginning my wine making journey and just made my 3rd kit ever, the WinExpert...

Great thread! Touches on everything I was wondering about in the back of my mind about TA testing! I use the CellarScience Acid Test Kit from Morewine and found 1) continuously adding to the vial, capping it and shaking it was tiresome and 2) I could not detect the color change with reds to any...

Its probably because I'm new to wine making but bananas don't leap to the front of my mind when I think of wine...what is it like? I have a tough time thinking about what meal one would pair this with!

As a newbie wine maker those pails of grapes look pretty awesome; as an old timer that has made pizza for decades I'm very interested in that sack of what looks like Pizza Crust flour! (I'm a "00" Caputo flour guy...). (Today I just racked my WE Zin for the second time and my WE Chard will...

I'm only on my 3rd kit and noticed the WE Australian Chardonnay box came with the cutout. Not sure if I missed it on the previous kits (WE and RJS) but this looks like it will make life much easier!

Thanks - that's kinda what I thought but appreciate the quick confirmation just in the nick of time... :)

Hi, Hoping folks can chime in quickly as I am starting fermentation today. I'm starting the WineExpert Australia Chardonnay and included in the kit is both Oak Granular as well as Oak Chips. The directions say "If your kit contains Oak Chips OR Granular Oak, stir in now" for primary...

Just a quick update - I have not heard back from Vinmetrica either directly from their email support or via this forum. I've reached out to them again and will post any responses.

After a couple of weeks of aging I measured the Free SO2 in my (kit) wine with the Vinmetrica SC-100 and I got a reading of 38 ppm which seemed like a reasonable value to me, especially since the kit came with it's own sulphite+sorbate package and it seems from my reading that 35-50ppm is a...

@Rice_Guy Well I guess the short answer to what I like to drink is "yes". :h As far as what I like to make - no idea! I kind of started doing this completely backwards, which is pretty uncharacteristic of me. Usually I research and study something to death before I start a new endeavor...

Wow – thank you everyone for taking the time for all the in-depth and wide-ranging feedback, much appreciated and I’m taking it all to heart. Here’s some responses to various questions/comment but first a quick recap and update. First, after de-gassing I did the Kieselsol & Chitosan, I then...

For ABV the starting SG was 1.076, the ending 0.996. I used an online calculator to get 10.5 (although I just checked another one and got 10.87 ABV). Thanks.

Hi all, Apologies ahead of time for the length of this post, especially since it’s my first. I’m new to this forum and new to wine making. I just passed the point where I thought I knew something and now I’m at the point where I realize I know nothing – but I am trying. Kit wine attempt #1 was...

Hi folks, I'm new to the wine making hobby here & hoping to leverage all the expertise on this forum to guide me along so I can give back at some point. Cheers!