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I keep my own bees and recommend it to others.

We use a Vinmetrica SC 300 and it does all that we need. Excellent customer service if needed.

Up the amount of berries to 6-7 pounds. Start with a brix at 21 and a pH around 3.6

The story I have read on the wine kegs is that you use a blend of 75% N and 25% CO2 and only pressure it up to 3-5 psi, they claim it will not introduce CO2 to your wine at that level. I will purge the cornies with straight argon, but once the restaurant receives them, they have the N/CO2 tanks...

Doing more research, it looks like it requires a Cornelius keg and a bottle of 75/25 CO2 and Nitrogen. Some of our local restaurants are converting to this instead of by the bottle. I may have to give this a try but would still like to hear from any others who have experience with this.

Does any commercial winery do 5 gallon wine kegs? If so, can anyone point me in the right direction to best obtain the equipment necessary and the knowledge to do it.

The fact that it is a conical bottom means 100% drainage. Their is another port above the bottom drain valve opening that is used to insert a stainless steel racking cane, (1.5" TC). That way you can rack off of your lees without transferring them to your next tank. The beauty of the conical...

Anytime i have an issue with my Sc300, I go here first. https://vinmetrica.com/faq/

You will need to amend your soil if you plan on growing haskaps. You should be in the 6-7 pH range. There are several methods for you to lower your pH. Just check with your coop extension agent for the best method for oyur area. Haskaps do not taste like blueberries alone. They are a multi...

To help with the color, add 10% raspberries.

..."We obtained a farmer's market permit..." This is not yet legal in my state but would like to hear from those where it is legal so we can perhaps get our state legislature to change some laws.

If you are on a septic system, before you dump saniclean or starsan down the drain, buffer the pH with baking soda till you are close to 7.

If you decide to purchase one of these units, I recommend that you have your cork company bag your corks in 500 per bag. That way you can fill the hopper in one pass.

Licensed wineries. So far it looks like just me and you.

Just curious as to how many commercial wineries are here on the forum.

We have been using the plastic T Shirt bags when a customer buys a bottle of wine. I would like to hear what other small commercial wineries use to "bag" a customers purchase of a bottle or two of wine. We do have the 2 and 4 bag cloth stitched bags that we sell for cost, but customers don't...

Just bottled a couple thousand bottles and worked perfectly. For a small commercial winery, this worked very well for our needs.

Here is a 2 min video showing it in action. Doing a test run on empty bottles. https://youtu.be/q2lrb0cu6cQ

Norcal, no grapes are harmed in the making of our wines. All of our wines are from the fruit grown on our farm. I purchased mine from G W Kent. They don't show this model on their online store but it is in their catalog. St Pat's has a pic and description of one, you can see what it looks...

Well the rapid corker fell through after waiting several months. The vendor stated that when they received this last shipment, they were all defective and they were returning them to the manufacturer. So I sucked it up and spent my sons inheritance and bought the pneumatic corker from Italy...