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One of the many advantages to living through a winter in the Maritimes, Canada (insert sarcasm here) is the ability to cold stabilize wine which has aged either in glass or in small 23 l oak barrels. The average winter night time temp now is about 0 deg F. I would normally cold stabilize for 2...

Put some of the new WK kits on with following date codes:L210615S1-50 80249, and L210331S1 - 50 97773. How do u decode the actual production dates from these, and are they significantly different?

Just arrived in country , small all in one 2 bag kit. makes 1 gallon. Called " Wineology". 4-6 week kit, IKEA type instructions. Has any one tried one yet? Just put mine one - white - Pino Gris. Truly a box wine. Ric

the latest eciipse with skins adds the kiesolol in two batches, one before chitosan, and second 25 hrs later. i forgot second package. .ow ready to bottle. should i still add it?

My experience for Amarone includes cold soak of primary for 4to 6 weeks. Much more tannin. Does need to age minimum 2 to 3 yrs. (That's the hard part)

I have started a 6 week SB from NZ. Wo7ld. Like to make v dry. Any suggestions, like biolees? Ric

On a 5 week stay in Guatemala and Belize and have no idea of wines here. Anybody with some experience. Only one promoted is a fruit wine called Nisipoko, which kumquat related. May be forced to choke back ok some Chilean Malbec. RIC hattin Escaped from Nova Scotia.

2 purposes for labels: record pertinent info, or marketing. i use avery easy peel 30 to a sheet for my regular wine. they are easy to peel for about 2 years, then glue hardens and i need hot water, inside bottle, to strip them off. normally no residual glue. 10 seconds a bottle. for...

That was the problem. The wine was made by the uvint store. Final sg was 1.002. I think they didn' wait long enough on primary.

Several of my friends who have made the Selection Amarone have returned it to the u hints where it was made. They have converted this resultant too sweet wine into grappė, with good results. The kits were 2016. Interesting that wk pulled the SE Amarone 2 months ago. Btw, our local u vint...

Have one in primary. Surprised that they included 2EC-1118 yeasts?

This has already been done and in operation in a local Ferment on Premises shop. It has a non commercial variant. A couple of advantages is that the concentration of CO2 can now be controlled in the final bottling process, it can be used merely to transfer and rack, no lifting of full carboys...

Carbon dioxide in wine CO2 is needed at some level in both red and white wines, even more so in champagne or sparkling wines. Too much are it and you get a fuzzy taste or a prickly feeling on your tongue and your wine taste buds can pick up the carbonic acid in the wine itself. Sommeliers are...

Well, we now have two versions of the plastic carboy degassing system: one that will do 1 carboy at a time and the other which will do three. Got almost all of the bugs worked out of the vacuum vessels and can draw the max that the pump will suck, which is about -25 in Hg, or -12.5 psi. Does...

Somewhat related is the drop out that I am currently getting from my CC Chateau du Pays kits. I am losing about 2 l in transferring from primary to secondary and the lees are very sloppy. This kit has a lot of pulp in it that is not hardening up. Has anybody added bentonite to help it harden...

Happy new year folks, a little update on the degassing system. Got the big bugs worked out and now able to get about 10 psi pressure differential. The neat thing is that I can degas and transfer all 3 carboys at the same time in about 3 minutes. I think that is too fast to get all the...

Progress report: got the system pretty well sealed, but only at low pressure. Interesting effect is that the ambient vacuum stays at about 5.2 in regardless f the number of filling inlets in use. This is the max pressure drop that my shop vac will produce. The ambient vacuum should drop!! The...

Concur. Dr sportsman gives great support and upgraded my software. Just got to keep the records. Ric WTFFF

To clear up a bit of confusion, the top of the vacuum body is remove able to allow thematic carboys to be removed more easily when full. Using carboys straps to lift them out of the vacuum body : lift is about 13 inches. The injectors are the individual filling tubes, and they splash rack the...