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    concord grape wine

    Thanks ks yeh I have been very anal about sterilizing everything that goes near the wine. I even wipe the outsides of the primaries down with a sponge with bleach and water after i stir just to make sure that there is no drops for fruit flies to feast on. After I took the sg I just had to...
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    concord grape wine

    thanks dj, i just took a reading and it was 1.04 so I guess still a ways to go.
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    concord grape wine

    So i crushed the grapes with my feet, after washing with a bleach solution, sterilized the must, pitched the yeast, everything is working beautifully. My sg was1.1 at start and I havent taken it lately, but there is still active fermentation going on in the primary fermentater. The grape skins...
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    Degassing

    So how is this done on a commercial scale? I just cant see a professional wine maker using a friggen drill. ha ha
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    white sugar?

    Hey thanks everyone, so I'm to assume that its okay to use white sugar? For some reason I thought that it gave off flavors when used in wine. Thats great, because where i live its the only game in town, corn sugar i have to order in.
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    white sugar?

    I'v been making kit wines for years but have decided to foray into homemade fruit wines. Most of the recipes off the net seem to use white sugar. In the past I'v always used inverted corn sugar. I know that you can invert white sugar by boiling it, I think, or is this a fallacy? Is corn...
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