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I recall someone on this forum doing a bulk order of barrels...I'm looking for a 30gal (American or French)...anyone doing this? Shoot me a PM.

So after this years wine pressing and carrying 52 gal of wine into my basement (where is everyone who wants my wine on this day?), leaving a long trail of wine droplets to clean up along the way. I thought of setting up a large (3/4) reinforced type clear plastic tubing in my garage to bring it...

So my pear tree gave me about two coolers full of small pears this year(can't remember the variety). So what else can one do with something nutritious as fruit, but to turn it into alcohol. So I've read so many different ways to make fruit wine(other than grape), some boil the pears, some...

So some background, I made some red zin this past fall and all seemed to be going along well enough. I pressed the grapes and placed them into my stainless steel vessel(floating top type) prior to racking it off into my barrel. I pressed just above 1.00 . After a short period in the barrel, I...

New to wine making and I will be pressing by first batch of Cab in the coming week. In getting my press cleaned off I noticed the main vertical "screw" a bit wobbly, but not too much. I looked under it an noticed a large nut which appeared tight, however the whole shaft spins in its sleeve. Is...

Anyone have any ideas on how to make a tool to break the must cap down?...I've seen some stainless steel ones, but they were a little pricey.

contemplating doing MLF on my CC Zin. Is this a tweak that you more experienced guys do?

I racked my Cellar Craft Old Vine Zin today and inadvertantly added the KMET packet instead of the enzyme packet. The wine's SG was at .992 prior to this. I added the enzyme packet about 5 hrs later. So will this have an effect on the wine? What is the enzyme addition at this point doing for the...

Looking for a used crusher destmmer for sale. motorized please...give me a shout if you have one or know of one for sale.