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I haven't but it sounded interesting. I just have alot of white wine now. I'll be interested to hear what you think.

I started out with those canned beer kits you just add water/yeast and in my opinion, they were pretty bad. This was 10 yrs ago though. The recipe kits are definitely the way to go. I still do extract--don't have a good setup for allgrain but I'm happy with the results. I highly recommend...

Fills two bottles at once, that's nice. I use a Buon Vino automatic bottle filler hooked to my vacuum pump. It goes pretty fast. I do it alone so I fill all the bottles then cork all. Much faster than gravity fills. It doesn't stop automatically when hooked to the vacuum so I have to watch it...

I use a minijet and the only time I've used a coarse filter was occasionally with fruit wine. I just used the #2 filter on all other wines (I did try sterile on white kit wine with nothing used before that and had no problem but I couldn't tell the difference in just using the #2 and it was...

I use a fridge. It will hold 2 carboys with room for bottles of beer. Then i still have the freezer compartment for glasses and other stuff. I could never lift a carboy in/out of a chest freezer unless it was standing on its side.

The drop out looked like sand on the side of bottle of the red wine where it settled. I don't think it was color. Not much though (maybe the size of a quarter)--but still aggravating to me. I had submitted one to a contest and they said it had a few "floaters". Haven't had that problem since I...

Filtering alone won't remove wine crystals--they form when the wine is cold. Filtering does not remove dissolved solids. I've filtered and still had sediment drop later which is very aggravating to me so I now bulk age reds atleast one year. I cold stabilize all high end white kits--some form...

It's prob the carboy size. I can tell different volumes using two 3gal instead of my 6 gallon Better Bottle (the 3 gal glass holds more). I have racked down to a 5 gal before since I have various smaller sizes of containers and appropriate bungs to go with them. I've never noticed any change in...

Just opened my first bottle of one year-old Chardasia last night. It was very good. I had my doubts since I'd never heard of Malvasia before but I wanted something a little different. I can't really describe the flavor (I'm not good at that at all) but I can say it's a very enjoyable wine. I...

Thanks for the replies.

I'm getting close to filtering/bottling Ehrfenhelser and Torrontes (didn't start them till Feb) and was debating about cold stabilizing. Any find crystals in these? I know that shouldn't happen with kits but it's happened to me more than once. I'd rather use my fridge for a lager now so thought...

I've been doing well with Crappie here. I have to depend on a friend who has a boat to take me though--it's too shallow around the shoreline with these hot temps--they're out in the deep water. The flooding we had in April (which was during prime fishing time) messed up spawn so that'l cut down...

I just finished a Soave I bottled a year ago and am drinking a Pinot Grigio also bottled a year ago. Even though I buy these for early drinkers, I must say they do improve with age. The PG was a bit oakey for my taste at 3 monthst but at a year it has mellowed wonderfully. The Soave was also...

I've made both the Soave and Bourg Royal white both with and without raisins. I haven't opened the Bourg Royal yet (though it is ready) but I can say I can't tell any difference in the Soave (with or without raisins). I think all it really does is add a bit more alcohol from the extra sugar. I...

I don't care for the extracts either--too fake tasting to me. LorAnn oils makes food-grade oils that I've used in baking and flavoring ice cream (when my husband was on a lowcarb diet) and they work well--very intense so a little goes a long way and are available in just about any flavor you can...

I have a batch from the first offering (though it was only 16L then). Mine is still aging but so far it shows to be a very nice wine. Yours should be even better.

I liked the super tuscan alot. Any idea what varietals is in the Rosso Grande Excellente?

This one is my favorite early drinker (followed by the Soave). I think you'll be pleased. It is drinkable after 3 months but it does improve after that.

Reminds me of when I used our laundry room (sharing with the washer/dryer of course). Now, 10 yrs later, I'm using a large portion of our unfinished basement (and I originally thought we didn't need a basement).If I were you, I'd be thinking about taking over any guest bedroom there might be.

I like the Bourg Royal White best and Pinot Grigio second.