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    Now how lazy is this?

    Well , all I can say is if you have arthritis as bad as I it might be handy. It might help with not having to grit your teeth when you squeeze something.
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    Stawberry wine doest start fermenting

    Yep, you were right , I got up this morning and it was going full force, in fact the towel was rounded up like raising homemade bread. My begin sg was 1.092. The only problem I see is I may have added a couple of pints too much water to begin with as the ferment pail is to full. Good thing I had...
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    Stawberry wine doest start fermenting

    I started a batch of strawberry wine this afternoon, 5 gallons and I added the yeast and nothing started fermenting. I have never had this problem before, I waited a couple of hours and decided that maybe the yeast wasnt any good so I added another pkg . It boubled a few times and looks now like...
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    Time before Adding yeast to Fruit wine

    I pulled the must bag up and I have 31/2 gallons of liquid without squeezing the bag, about 4gal level in the fermenter. Are you saying I could add more? I have about 40 or 50 quarts in the freezer yet. I get a lot of juiced out of a quart. soooo shld I add more??
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    Time before Adding yeast to Fruit wine

    I forget to tell you, the last SG reading I had looked to be 1.085, then 1.084 then 1.082. I think that is when the top of the sg meter was going bad and the darn paper inside was moving around...not sure, I hate to add more sugar as I think I am close. ...........I think in the future I might...
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    Time before Adding yeast to Fruit wine

    Thanks Tom, I will do that. I had some frozen wild blue berries left from 08 vacum packed, 10lbs . So what the heck I thought I would try another 3 gal batch. I was rasing the sg to the 1.080 that you suggested I should have done for the last batch, only problem I was adding just a bit of sugar...
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    Time before Adding yeast to Fruit wine

    I saw some where that you could apply campden 12 hrs after the other ingredients, is that a truism ...
  8. L

    Time before Adding yeast to Fruit wine

    I added the pectic, acidblend , energizer, and campden 8:30pm last night. I just put the lid on loose , did not apply air lock
  9. L

    Time before Adding yeast to Fruit wine

    Are you saying that I can add it 8 or 9 hrs early?
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    Time before Adding yeast to Fruit wine

    I was wondering if it will hurt anything to wait 36hrs before adding yeast to my fruit must , as I started some last night but wont be able to be around to add the yeast for another 12 hrs at the least?
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    Heat Shink Foils ??

    I just looked in the freezer, looks like I may start another batch as I got some wild blueberries ,enough from 2008 to do another 3 gallons.
  12. L

    Heat Shink Foils ??

    I will try that today, that is after my wife gets done making the Wild Blueberry Pie she is working on right now! I will work on that during the super bowl tomorrow. Sounds like a plan , I will try your method. If this works, my bottle , colour, and label my turn out better then my first try...
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    Heat Shink Foils ??

    What is the best way to get the heat shrink foils to work, I tried a couple and the result was wrinkles ect ect...was trying to get a better look.
  14. Made my own wine dryer!

    Made my own wine dryer!

  15. First bottle created.

    First bottle created.

  16. First home wine making try!

    First home wine making try!

    Wild Blueberry
  17. L

    Did I add to much sugar?

    I added pectic enzyme, not a lot however. I checked the sg and it was 1.090 after adding all those berries--
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    Did I add to much sugar?

    I was able to thaw out a gallon plus 1 quart of berries real quick, only took 10 mins, as I had them vacume packed. this is about 6 1/2 pounds I have found out that wild blue berries yeild abt 1 1/8 pounds per quart. Dont think I can add any more as I have a 6 gallon fermet bucket and the level...
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    Did I add to much sugar?

    I am thawing more berries right now, as I add them does it do any good to check the sg and see if I can get it to 1.080, also do I need to add more yeast or anything else---?
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