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Hello All, A place in MI where I buy some of my home brewing supplies has cases of "semi-Bordeaux" bottles for $10/case of 24. The shipping kinda kills it for me at $42 to the Atlanta area. Is $72 delivered a good deal for 72 new bottles? If you are in Michigan, it is Adventures in...

Hello Lads, I've been making wine about a year now. I have quite a bit or product coming up on the 6 and 9 month bulk aging mark. I've been using Zorks and a rubber mallet. However, Zorks are a bit spendy. They are nice for re-sealing an open bottle but I think when these are gone, I'm going...

So, I have had a white wine in carboys now for about a month. I had gone through all the degassing and clarification steps. The last was to add chitosan and wait 8 days. The wine was absolutely brilliantly crystal clear and I could read the instructions through the wine....until....I racked...

I have recently bought four 6-gal PET carboys. They are very nice quality and the price was right and on sale at homebrewing.org However, I think they are better for primary fermenting and not for bulk aging. With 6-gal in the carboy, I found it took a full 1.5L bottle of wine to top it off...

Our basement really only has one unfinished space and that is the utility room with HVAC and water heater. But, I just realized I have a pretty good space to bulk age and store bottled wine and it's under the stairs coming down to the basement. That space has been filled with boxes of kids...

Hey Guys, I have my 2nd, 3rd and 4th batches in fermentation right now. All are made from RJS or Winexpert Eclipse kits. The first batch, I bottled after I completed all the steps in the instructions. But I see lots of guys with multiple carboys filled with wine aging. Is it better to age...

I'm still very green in wine making. I did a search and read a few things here about wine kits from Williams Brewing. I didn't see anything really negative, but not much positive either. I have a couple of empty 3-gal carboys and Williams offers 2.5gal kits for something like $32. I was...

I just bottled the first batch of Chard I have ever made. It was made from an RJS kit and has been in carboys for a little over 30-days. It was crystal clear, but I jarred one of my carboys and disturbed the sediment. I finished bottling and decided to give the leftover stuff a taste. It was...

I purchased a kit which came complete with two cases of bottles and corks. I'm planning to start this either tonight or tomorrow night. I have everything prepared but I keep wondering about the oak in this kit. It came with an oak infusion bag similar to a teabag. My wife nor I like really...

Hello All, I just received a kit for a Chardonnay. I'm a long time home brewer since the 1990s but this is my first wine. I don't see anything about storage temp on the box. I'll continue searching here and elsewhere. It was pretty warm and I put the whole box-o-juice in the fridge. Is that...

Hello, This is my first post in the wine area (I have lots of posts on the sister site homebrewtalk). I've been brewing beer since about 1994 or 95. I have gone through lots of diy stuff and made some great beers. My kids are both away in college and I really have no bills. My wife only...