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We use a manual heating pad underneath the primary with a thermostat that controls when the heating pad gets turned on or off and wrap the whole thing in a sleeping bag to help keep ours warm.

We're also thinking of adding some medium toast French oak cubes for aging. I think our primary is complete now and we'll likely be racking tonight into the carboy for secondary. The kit sure smells good so far!! Hunter Blue takes a big whiff at the airlock every time he goes by it, silly beagle!

Our batch of this kit is still in primary, today is day 5. We mixed the grape pack into the juice and have been stirring each day. Last night our SG was at 1.026 so we'll likely be racking to secondary tomorrow night or even wait until Saturday.

Thanks all! I'll get some pictures up later this week. We will be bulk aging in the carboys for quite a while to help us be patient with the wines. Our friends that talked us into starting to make some wines we will be here for Thanksgiving so we'll need to start another batch around then. So...

Hi there! The hubby, Marc, and I have been bugged by a friend of ours to start making wine and this fall we finally did. Since we don't do anything half way, we have a WE Lodi Old Vine Zin in the carboy, an RJ Spagnols Cru Select French Merlot just racked to the carboy yesterday and we also...