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Appleman Thanks for the input. Do you have any data on what typical replinishment rates are? The first few attempts at drilling a hole in the bottle with ordinary drill bits as well as bits used for tiles failed. A drill bit with diamond chips embedded in the end works but...

We have decided to try aging in an oak barrel after 9 years of using glass. The used 10 gallon oak barrel has been professionally refurbished. <?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> We drilled a hole in the bottom of a 750 ml wine bottle large enough to...

Dean That is a good thought. Usually we sanitize the rubber bungs before using them. Perhaps I got lazy.

I addedCampden tablets to the glass container containing the Flowers of Wine and then racked the wine into a different so it is not possible for me to provide a picture at this time. However, it is very easy to spot. It starts with athin white film on top of the wine that eventually becomes...

We have been getting them for several years from the distributor A. T. Siravo in Providence, RI. The grapes come from Papagni Fruit Co. of Madera , Ca. They are in magniifcent condition, no leaves, mold, etc. but we wash them anyways before crushing. I have been making wine the same way for...

Thanks for the advise. I will give it a try.Where tdid you purchase the washing wand that connects to the faucet? (BTW I live in Westerly)

I do not think it is the technique since the same technique was used on both red and white wine but only the red became infected. I had previously found the article you mentioned and followed the advise given. I then bottled the wine leaving hardly any air space. The wine definitely changed...

Does anyone know of a chemical that can be used toeffectively clean glass wine containers that previously held wine infected with "Flowers of Wine"? This is the second year that some, but not all, of my wine has become infected I suspect the problem may be that washing the containers with...

This year we fermented (2) 55 gallon containers that had about 45 gallons of liquid and skins in them plus about 35 gallons of white grape juice. Fred

Dean We appreciate that there are many variables involved in the fermentaion process. We are, however, looking for an oirder of magnitude estimate for what the water flow rate will have to be for the systems we are considering. Currently we have a pipe within a pipe system with the outer...

We are trying to design a cooling system that will automatically keep the temperature during the primary fermentaion stage within the desired range. The concept is similar to the cooling coils that are commercially avaialble except the plan is to have an open loop system with tap water...

Bill We use the accuvin test for TA for the first time this year. One draws a fixed amount of juice and places it in a fixed volume of testing liquid. The color change is instantaneous and can be compared tothat from a chart. This approach seems to take much of the subjectivity out of other...