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This is all off the market now - a family member is going to pick up the wine-making torch for the family. Thanks to those who responded ! ---------------------------------------------------------- I'm going to get out of the hobby. I've got quite a bit of stuff I accumulated over the past...

I've done 5 kits now. 3 of them have been fine, but two have had gas issues. The latest is an 'Island Mist' kit. I have the little Zip-Loc vacuum pump thingey that I used during the de-gas cycle, and I stirred the heck out of the wine at that time as well. I did this because my first kit was...

I have an Island Mist 'Strawberry White Merlot' kit that I am doing. When I put it in the secondary it had a SG of 1.005, and now, after two weeks, it is only down to 1.000, and the airlock hasn't shown any activity in a while - it's about 'done'. The paperwork with the kit says the SG...

I'm starting my third wine kit now. In the first two kits I did, the primary fermentation has been very agressive - the wine has been almost done fermenting before going into the secondary. I have the primary in a relatively warm area of the basement, wrapped in a blanket, so the temp stays at...