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    Mojito Skeeter anyone?

    Insert pee joke here. I'm definitely gonna have to try this recipe. Do many of you add fruit to pee in secondary?
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    Mojito Skeeter anyone?

    Sub'd. Let us know how it turns out.
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    Wine podcast

    Although it's not currently running, there are 70 episodes of The Cellar Dwellers on talkshoe.com
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    Fastest Fermentation EVER!!!

    Racked again last night. I need to get a second fermenter because racking from the corny to a bucket and back to the corny doesn't sit well with me, even though I did purge each with CO2 prior to transfer. Mostly the sanitization-not sterilization issue. On to the nitty-gritty. Measured by...
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    Fastest Fermentation EVER!!!

    Forgive me, but I'm having a bit of trouble following your post. I racked the wine the first time to get it off of the gross lees, there were several berries floating around, and some suspicious looking goo (elderberry is famous for its fermenter goop.) I am sure there are still yeasts present...
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    Fastest Fermentation EVER!!!

    I didn't have a proper secondary available, so I purged an empty corny keg with CO2 and racked through the diptube. Super easy, just hook the picnic faucet to the autosiphon and open the pressure relief valve. On another note, elderberry goop is some crazy stuff. Soap and detergents won't work...
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    Fastest Fermentation EVER!!!

    I probably should have mentioned that I'm using a refractometer to monitor my sugar, mostly because I'd rather use a few drops instead of several ounces to test, but also because it doesn't roll off of the table like my old hydrometer did that one time... and it makes me feel like a scientist...
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    Fastest Fermentation EVER!!!

    Fastest Fermentation EVER!!! A running log of my first Elderberry wine. Last Friday I started a batch of elderberry wine, and yesterday I went for a quick peek to check its progress and it was already down to 7% brix, calculated from 22.1% original, that puts me at .988 specific gravity! In...
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    Pecan Wine Recipe?

    After reading about the problems with pecan oil floating and its potential to turn rancid I started thinking. Racking the oil off of the wine, or the wine from the oil as it may be sounds rather wasteful. Granted I haven't tasted the oil from crushed or toasted pecans, but I'm sure that there...
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    Bench Testing To-Taste

    Okay, I'm relatively new to this "make your own" business. In fact, this newbie is planning his first-ever "real" batch this weekend. Over the past couple of months I've been reading everything I found on two or three different forums, Jack Keller's page, Luc Volders' blog, and countless recipes...
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