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Mike Like the concentrate.....when I save back juice, Im only getting less bottles that you will fermenting it all and then using concentrate. (laughing). And concentrate is cheap.

Tje f-pack that they talked about comes with kit wines and since you are making the wine from grapes, it wouldn't apply to you since you couldn't get just the f-pack. For true port, there are two basic ways that it can be made from grapes. Traditionally, fermentation is shut down by adding...

ROFL don't I wish....hmmm could be lucrative

Runningwolf A real problem with the demijohn is that you CAN'T vacuum pump them (even our own vacuum man states this). The glass is just too thin to withstand the vacuum. What does work well, though, is a self priming diagphragm pump. I have a Buon Vino mini in our "experimental" lab and...

Well welcome as an "active" member. I really got a good laugh at your comments about wine being so easy. Actually making really good wine is about the most difficult chemistry project you could ever take on. With the kits, all of the chemistry has been done for you, and there isn't any...

Take your soil to the local ag extension and have them test it before you start a watering schedule. Don't know what your clay levels are in the eastern part of the state, but in Western MO we have a very high clay level in the soil. Although it holds the water pretty well, requiring less...

Love the comment Arne!! The problem is that once you pass it on, it still leaves you with symptoms. All of my neighbors and friends are now making wine (and beer.) Thought that this would lessen their demands on me....but was I ever wroing. Now they all want the grapes. Last year had to...

Mike The Argon Cylinders have a different thread pattern only used on Argon Tanks. The regulators we normally use are for CO2 and have a completely different thread pattern. Also the Argon is pressurized to a much higher pressure in the tank and is well beyond the top pressures on the...

Alka Seltzer? Now there is an idea, produce CO2 and at the same time treat the hangover that the wine MAY produce (laughing) I have to disagree with Wade (just a little). There was a study done at Stellenbosh a lot of years ago that studied the effects of CO2 on the finished wine...

I agree with Arne and Robie....get a hydrometer and a test vessel to go along with it....don't just float the hdrometer in the wine. If the reading is below 1.00 then you have no problem. What it sounds like to me though is that fermentation stuck before all of the sugar was consumed. If...

There are two main reasons why filtering of wine has become so popular. 1. Commercial wineries that make lower grade wines want to get the wine into the bottle as quickly as they can.....so that they can sell it. 2. Kit makers want to get it into the bottle quickly too, but also realize that...

Fermain K dosing is so that you will have enough nutrients to carry through to the end of fermentation. If you have avery active fermentation, then there is a possibility that nutrients will be exhausted prior to the end of conversion of all of the sugars. Dosing midstream assures that the...

Laughing Although the results don't say much about the RJS kits since there weren't any entered this year, I went to the organizers who gave me the data for the last 4 years. This showed that there were 18 wines enered that were made from the RJS kits during this time with the following...

As for my preferences....I have to admit that I do like Megioli and Cellarcraft, Just haven't had a bad wine made from either....and have limited exposure to RJS. The entry forms didn't ask for the type of kit (premier, etc.). I would suppose, however, that only the premium kits made it to the...

Giovaninno Don't really know the answer to that one (grin). Just had a bottle of RJ Pinot at a friends house and it was wonderful. The fact is, for some reason, that there were no RJ kits identified on the entry documents. Wxcept from buying it from George, or NB nobody here locally...

Just finished (a month ago) judging at the Kansas City Wine Classic. They don't make any distinction between wines made from grapes or kits in their competition, all are judged blind on a UC Davis Scale. What I found to be very interresting was that the kits were identified on the entry...

Something that hasn't been touched on that I thought would be by now is the shipping. That really depends on your LHBS and their markup. Just had a friend of mine who wanted to start making wine, so we took a trip to a local LHBS and I was astounded by the prices for the high end kits. True...

Wade Can I ost it here...don't know how. Or I could send it to you and you could post it....send me your e-mail in private Bill

Fermentation temperatures can be anywhere in the optimal range for the yeast. With virtually all of the available yeasts, anywhere in the 60s or low 70s is fine. At higher temperatures more esters and aldehydes are produced, at lower temps more varietal fruit flavor and nose are retained. If...

Kit makers almost always use EC1118 yeast for two reasons. 1. Like was already said it has hiiiigh alcohol tolerane, and is almost impossible to have a stuck fermentation, and 2. It is a very neutral yeast that won't do very much pro or con to the varietal that it is used on. By using it...