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Hi, I keep my fermenting buckets in the corner of my aparment on the floor. When i go to rack to secondary should i move them to a counter a day before i rack so it has a chance to settle from the move? I dont have a high area i can keep them all the time. When i move the bucket should i take...

Is it ok to ferment at room temperature? I don't have a way to put the fermenter bucket at a lower than room temperature but from what I read the temp should be lower than 70 degrees

I ordered a 10 pack of Lalvin Dried Wine Yeast EC 1118 since it was so cheap. How long will these packs last for and i planned to keep them in a drawer that will be room temp about 70 degrees. Thanks

Would you recommend transferring a 6 gallon batch of wine off the lees into a 5 gallon carboy so you do not have to top up with as much water? This is my second kit so i do not have spare "like wines" to top it off to below the airlock. The first wine i did i had to add quite a bit of water...

Hi everyone hope you had a nice weekend. I have a question about the Peach Chardonnay kit from RJ Spagnols. When clearing/stabalizing you are supposed to rack into the secondary carboy and then put aside 2 liters of the wine. You then clear stabalize the carboy and degass and then add in the 2...

Hi all, I found a low priced 1 gallon wine kit online. It comes with all the additives, a small fermenter, and 1 gallon jug. It also comes with a recipe book. So far, i have only made 6 gallon batches from kits. How much fruit is usually required for a gallon of wine? I was thinking of...

Hi all, I am almost out of my small jar of PBW and will be starting my third batch here pretty soon. I was thinking of just getting PBW again but wanted to see if anyone had better results with another product. I did not have any issues with PBW so far.

I have been reading different opinions on how long people leave their bottles upright before storing in their side. How long do you all usually leave them upright? :ib

I bottled my first batch of wine last night and noticed that some of the bottles had little red particles floating inside them when held up to the light. It is the paint from the hand corker. It's not alot and i would still drink them but i think i will buy a hand pourer that has a filter on it...

I am bottling my first wine right now a grand cru pinot grigio and when trying to take a final gravity reading it is floating below the numbers. The instructions said to fill the carboy after clearing and stabilizing with water up to a inch or two below the air valve so i am thinking maybe it is...

We are planning to bottle our first batch of wine tonight and we have some of the shrink PVC capsules to add on after corking. Would you recommend tilting the bottles over some boiling water to apply the capsules or a hair dryer? Thanks!

I was wondering if I need to add kmeta to my grand cru pinot Grigio kit that I will be bottling soon. It's cleared up nicely so I plan to filter and bottle this week. I have been reading about adding kmeta but isn't one of the packets from the kit that you add during clearing/stabilizing step...

I was considering buying one of these from amazon today since i will be bottling soon and had a question. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00838TXNQ/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 The description for that one says each filter is only good for 2 gallons? This seems really small and most wine gallon...

Would it be okay to store wine bottles on their side in large pastic bins? I would get ones that are not see through so no light is hitting them. I have just started my first 2 batches of wine a month ago and will be bottling soon but do not have wine racks large enough to hold them all. I will...

Is star san a good sanitizer for cleaning my new cases of empty wine bottles? I plan on bottling in a few days and will purchase a bottle rinser sulfiter tool and a bottle tree for them to drain/dry. I'm assuming that i just fill the bottle rinser with the diluted star san sultion pump the...

I just started my second wine kit this weekend and was wondering about the filtering process. I found one online called Vinibrite i think but it had bad reviews. Are there any good relatively cheap ways to filter wine that works well that you all would reccommend? Thanks!

Hi i just recently made my first kit wine a Pinot Grigio Grand Cru. It was suggested to me by this forum that i follow the instructions since it is my first kit. I put the wine in a 6 gallon carboy and topped it with water to a couple inches below the airlock after i cleared and stablized. I see...

Hi everyone, This is my first attempt at making a wine so i just bought a cheap kit from a local brew supply store. It is a Grand Cru Pinot Grigio. I have it in the primary fermenter right now and it is on its 8th day. The instructions say to move it to a carboy and add the other packets on...