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Thanks Rawlus for your considered reply. That's the best explained and most rational explanation I have had so far. I will check the next kit as it goes and see how that compares. Cheers!!

Well I thought about measuring the SG (I have many hydrometers) but really what is the point? Its obvious that fermentation has gone well according to the expected time frame. Why open up the fermentor and expose the wine to 1) bugs, 2) oxygen. I can leave it in there for a while longer...

Well I am up to day 7 with this kit, so far, fermentation has slowed right down, less bubbling now. I have decided to let it finish in the Primary seeing as mine is air-locked. The cartoon guy, in the instructions, has a fermentor rather than a garbage can (accepted) but it is open top, and as...

OK, thats interesting about Starsan, I will see if I can buy it over here.

I see they talk about that in the Winemakermag article (I can't provide the link to the other thread in 'sanitation') but they also recommend a good rinse after-wards. Probably no rinse is not a problem for wine, but for my beer-making I might start noticing a sulphity taste at that level...

Wow Wade, that sounds like a killer solution of KMeta. Really that much?? To sterilize after cleaning? Sheesh, I have made plenty of beer & sterilized with one teaspoon to a litre (that would be just under a tablespoon to a Gallon) and that was before I started adding the citric acid and no...

Well there was a splash of mold in my fermentor and I am making my first wine kit so I didn't want there to be any trouble. I decided against using boiling Hydrochloric acid to sterilize and went for the next best thing... Bleach. Someone here in another thread had a link to a brewtalkradio...

I have made some fruit wines but this is the first wine kit I have made. It is a WineXpert Chai Maison, Merlot, 0622209 0359, (all class). It is 7.5 Litres (2 gallons) of grape juice, bentonite, & red star yeast, chitosan, metabisulphite, & sorbate. All to make 23 L, (6 gallons) of wine. I...

You killed the smoke demon. All computers are driven by smoke, when the smoke comes out of them they no longer work.

Nice deterrent, guard cat, and hand gun. Should stop the wine theif.