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I haven’t made any wine in a while until the last few weeks. Looked at my old notes and I used them before. Rereading the recipe I see it doesn’t call for them. That makes me feel better about the delay anyway.

Hi, I mixed a batch of dragon blood evening of 4/29. 6 campden tabs and a 40 oz bottle real lemon. pitched ec-1118 morning of 4/30. morning of 5/2 had no activity so I pitched ec-1118 again and 5/3 I have started fermentation. was the campden and real lemon enough to protect the must from...

Thanks for the replies. It’s been a while since I bought any equipment. PET was becoming popular and creating a lot of debate. I do fruit wines and DB. I want to use a bucket with a spigot to ferment, then rack to a smaller one to clear, then rack to a carboy to age. Trying to make a simple...

Hi. Haven’t been making wine for a while and I’m ready to get back into it. I’m seeing some very inexpensive polypropylene fermenters and I’m not sure about them. A forum search didn’t round up much. Anyone using poly? Any reason not to? Thanks!

the difference between starting and finished gravity is what matters. that is how much sugar was converted to alcohol. at that point the variable you are talking about would only come into play if back sweetening using a hydrometer.

i'm in! Mike

according to your calculations the exposure is insignificant. is it really worth the effort of a lid?

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thanks for the replies. this answers my question. I have a batch of blueberry and also a raspberry melomel in the secondarys now. my plan is to bulk age in a carboy for 6 mo, then transfer to gallon jugs for further aging. the screw on caps make for easy storage and I can quickly bottle 5...

I get plastic screw on caps at the LHBS. they have a soft inner seal that I believe is air tight.

im kinda new and have some questions about the ageing process. this is my understanding so far. (please correct me if im wrong). during bulk ageing in a carboy with an airlock, there is some oxygen entering and some oxidation that causes the wine to age. then with the wine transferred to a...

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great idea Steve. should have thought of that myself. takes all the guesswork out of it.:slp

a coworker of mine gave me 2 five gallon Great Bear glass jugs. the openings are very narrow. does anyone know what size bung these take? thanks!

thanks Deezil! is there much risk leaving this in the primary for a few days after fermentation so the berries break down? temps are down here so it might ferment slow enough that it wont be necessary but I want to be prepared.

I have to agree.

I planted fall raspberries this year and didn't expect to get any this year. looks like i'm going to get about 5lbs. I plan on doing a 2 gal batch using the berry bliss recipe using local honey. honey to 1.09-1.095 5 lbs raspberries d47 yeast tannin pectic enzyme not sure on nutrients...

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