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I got some fliptop beer bottles recently. I am wondering if I can use them for storing wine? If so, it will save a lot of corks and probably eliminate the need to lay down on their sides. I am sure someone must have tried. What is the outcome? Thanks

I saw discussions about using vitamin C to replace sorbate to satblize wines. It seems attractive to me. Sorbate sounds like chemical and vitamin C sounds like fruites that we can eat as much as we want ? :HB

I am thinking of put a solid bung in the carboy after 3 month of aging. My room temperature swings between 19 -22 degree. Would the cause my carboy to explod?

When we talk about using bleach to sanitize, is this the same bleach we usually buy for the laundry? I just got some 10 carboys from yard sales. They are cheap but I am not comfortable to use unless I over sanitize them, not sure what's been put in before :-) So I am thinking of using...

If you open up the Paklab kit, you will find there is no Kmeta nor Sorbate packs, instead, it has a "Stabilizer" Pack. So I called Paklab today trying to find out, here is dialog me: so what's inside Paklab: it is Potassium metabisulfite me: just Potassium metabisulfite Paklab: there is...

I added Kmeta last night to my CC Amarone. I paid attention to the amount and I saw a '4 G' printed in the bag. Is it normally 1/4 TSP?

Plastic freakers and senior members! Please take a look of the picture, will this be good for primary fermenting? I found it from taobao.com, and it cost around $50 US/CAD~ But the shipping cost will be too much. I am just wondering where I can find similar product locally in Canada.

Since the Show Case Amarone is so thick, will I encounter any problem if I don't use the fining agent? Can you share your experience?

There are a lot of 54 liter demijohn listed on kijiji. Would it be good to do primary fermenting? If I mainly do 23 liter wine kits? 1.Will it be better than plastic pail ? 2. And if I do the high end kits, is it ok to insert grapes into it? 3. The small mouth is almost the same size as a...

Transferred my other two CC kits the secondary last night. There are a lot of lees, 2 liters each. I learned from here that I can collect them to further settle. That's what I did. I used the 2 liter juice bottle to hold them. and after a night, there is maybe 1/5 of clear layer. I decided not...

Help. I just got a box of 36 pounds of grapes. I want to destem them and put in zip bag to freeze and then use it to tweak my paklab kit. Do I wash them? And do I crash them ?

If there is such a container, that is long enough to take the spoon and siphons, food grade, can be sealed. Something like they use to store the map, but the material is better to be good plastic or glass. Such container would be perfect for kmeta sanitization. Any thoughts?

Just a new idea for those who don't have a positive opinion with the dirty cheap Paklab Vino series, the 24 dollar for 30 bottle kit. They can be good cooking wine I grow up in a family that uses a lot of cooking wines daily. We normally use yellow rice wine, a Sake cousin. It costs about two...

Hi Senior Members: I have put 3 Cellar Craft showcase kits under fermenting now (Red Mountain Cabernet, Amarone, and Argentinean Melbec). There will probably enough for the premium CC kits. If I want to make some other premium kits after this, should I do RJ Spagnols winery? And what are the...

Check this out. Bottles should be stored upright rather on their side http://www.ilhansanater.net/urunlerimiz.pdf

So I am reading the show case instructions over and over :-), because I couldn't find to rack before fining. Here is the instruction. Am I correct?

When you buy marbles, how do u tell if it is not leaded?

So here is the picture of my primary for CC showcase Amarone. The must is only about two inches from the rim. Is it not enough to hold co2 to protect the wine?

The cork I bought is in fact consists of very small cork particles somehow glued together. On my first batch, I laid my bottle horizontal to keep wine in contact with the cork do to prevent oxidization . Now I'm worried I might have eaten the dissolved glue from the cork. Paranoid?

Paklab claims in their website their wine products is GMO free ( implies their beer kits are not). So I checked the other kit producers. I didn't find others claim the same. I then wrote email letters to Cellar Craft and SRJ. I will post their reply here once I got it. FYI, sugar in North...