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This morning, according to my kit instructions was the day to to take my SG reading and move the batch to the carboy. It's an Island Mist Pomegranate Zinfandel kit. The SG was one line above the 1.00 mark (between 1.00 and .99 marks, hth do you read that? LOL) so I successful did the siphon and...

Hi Everyone! Happy Wednesday! I have what is probably a VERY beginner question... Last night I bought 3 beautiful carboys from a gent on craigslist, who said he thought they were 6.5 gallons and not 6 gallon as he had mentioned in his Craiglist ad. So..... I decided to figure out exactly how...

All of my starter equipment came today! :r I spent the day looking over everything, washing and sanitizing and double checking my instructions. As of right now, I have my first kit wine in the primary fermenting bucket sitting overnight to make sure the temperature is right. I will pitch the...

I bought my starter kit today and although I had been pricing kits with glass carboys, I managed to purchase a kit that came with a Betterbottle carboy made from polyethylene terephthalate copolymer (PET):tz. Can anyone lend me an opinion about whether or not this matters? Everything inside...

Hello Everyone! I live near Baltimore, Maryland and my grown son and I have decided we would like to try brewing for fun. He is going to to brew some ale and I want to try my hand at wine. (Then we'll have the family parties covered) I have been totally obsessed studying tutorials, watching...