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You may have seen that George's special this month are a dozen kits he has found to make exceptional wines - http://www.finevinewines.com/Wine-of-the-Month.asp?utm_source=March+2012+Issue+of+Pressing+News&utm_campaign=FebNews&utm_medium=email (hope the link works). There...

Here is the first photo of my whole house vacuum filter set-up - thanks to Wade for getting me connected with hardware and thanks to Wade, Mike, and others for some know-how! The inflow to the filter went fine and the tubing was filled with wine. The outflow tube, however, did not fill up with...

So, I lived in Texas and had an unexpected job opportunity arise in Floridaand had to shut down wine making so we could show our house without it looking like a bunch of winos lived there. We sold it quicker then we expected and had to move to a rental in Texas, then to a rental in Florida, and...

For those of you with an Invacare vacuum pump - I noticed my pump seemed to be sucking air without a vacuum and I discovered a hole on the underside of the vacuum control. This is a photo of the underside - the circle you can hopefully see behind the black control switch (and before the "t"...

Tim Vandergrift has provided a list of basic wines for the well-stocked cellar in his blog - http://www.winemakermag.com/blogs/a-cellars-market.html I found it interesting because before I became a winemaker my knowledge of wine was limited to"red" and "white"! This gives me some...

Hello everyone, I've had an extended break from winemaking due to an unexpected job opportunity which took me from Texas to Florida - living in a couple of rentals before getting back in a house and other adventures - but carefully taking boxes of wine and unmade kits with me personally! I will...

Hello everyone - new member here. I have been making wine a couple of years but had to take an extended break due to moving from Texas to Florida. I'm gearing up to resuming my fermenting very soon hopefully. I haven't met any winemakers here in the Tallahassee area yet but am still looking...

I will be moving from the Dallas, TX area to Tallahassee, FL this summer and am wondering if there are any other forum members in that area? I have not been on the forum as much recently as I had to put all of my wine making equipment away while we had the house straightened up for showing for...

Hello to anyone who uses a vacuum pump for depumping - I just recently purchased this InvaCare pump off of Ebay and tried using it today to degas. It draws a vacuum easily while running but as soon as I turn it off, I can hear air whooshing and the vacuum is gone. The air seems to be rushing in...

Hello all - I am wanting to calibrate my pH meter and I have the 4.01 and 7.01 buffers but I see there is what appears to be a temperature conversion scale on the packaging - so, I'm just wanting to check, should I calibrate to 4.01 and 7.02 or should I calibrate to the values indicated on the...

Hello all - I am wanting to make a blackberry merlot and am debating between buying the Orchard Breezin' blackberry merlot kit and upping the alcoholsome or buying a plain, regularmerlot kit (e.g., the VN merlot kit) and adding my own fresh blackberry juice f-pac and sweetening it after...

Hello all - I have reached a great personal milestone - I've graduated from being a discussion forum newbie to being a groupie! I thought I would never make it! Now if one of my wines could win a medal, my life will be complete! Thanks for all of the suggestions and advice from you...

Hello all, I am trying to decide what to do with this new batch of pumpkin wine and am wondering what suggestions you might have? My initial plan was to make it into a port-like dessert wine - - - My original intention was to make a starting batch of 6 gallons but I didn't figure in...

Hello all - I just tried measuring acid with the sodium hydroxide - phenolphthalein method of judging color changes for the first time and couldn't make heads or tails of it! I'm wondering whetherthe pH meter is really as simple as it appears or if I need to work more on the judging-color...

Hello all - I am making a Cabernet Sauvignon kit of the Through the Grapevine line that I bought at George's clearance sale - I racked the wine out of the primary fermenter on 10/7 and it fermented vigorously for about a day and then petered out - Ichecked the SG yesterday and it was .994 and...

Hello all - I mainly am focusing on winemaking, but make beer with my Coopers setupfor purposes of consumption - as you may know, it is a no-boil system and you just add the ingredients to the fermenter along with hot or boiling water and stir - the last couple of batches I have made, one of the...

Hello all - thought I would see what opinions/suggestions I might get regarding a haze in an apricot wine I'm working on - this was the second fruit wine I've ever made I started the fermentation on 5/18/08 so it has been coming up on three months that it has not cleared - I followed the...