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Can someone verify my calculations and process? I wanted to document a simple reference for back-sweetening fruit wine, including simple calculations. Below is quick reference for adding sugar to a finished wine. You can scale this up or down easily if you want a sweeter wine or a slightly...

I’m using a portion of a 5 gallon frozen pail of Zin must to make 1 gallon of Zin Port. I only occasionally enjoy Port, so I didn’t want 3 gallons of it. I am posting the steps I used here because it may help someone else with a similar objective, and/or someone will point out some possible...

How do you ship bottled wine? Do you "follow the rules" and ship through an approved alcohol shipper? Or do you "bend the rules" and ship via USPS and just mark the box "fragile"? Don't worry - I'm not a mail cop. I've used both methods but the legal method is expensive. Sent from my...

I bought some equipment to test for Free SO2. The test calls for Iodine (.02N). I don't know how to translate the .02N to a percentage of iodine solution. I have three products with iodine in them. Will any work? Do I add water to an amount of the iodine product to get the right concentration...

I have a variable volume steel tank (220L Speidel, rubber gasket floating lid). Two questions. (1) How much pressure do you pump into the lid gasket? I pump it a little over 1 bar. When it gets a little under 1 bar, I pump it again. (2) I have to add air every 4 days, more or less...