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Thank you everyone for your replies- they're exactly why I come to this site for help. I went ahead and topped off with store bought sangria. Next time I have this issue I may be interested in buying one of those so I'm not changing the wine at all but I think this will work for now and I...

Hi. So I'm going through my wine kit and I have just degased and stabilized. My wine kit informs me to make sure my wine is about 2 inches from the airlock in my fermenter, which I am not at. So the question I was hoping to get an answer to is- Is being within two inches really important? I...

Oh and no I did not let it dry before adding the wine back. I was kinda stuck w the wine in this plastic bottle so I added the caulk fresh to the outside while the wine was still in the fermenter and after I declared it wasn't leaking any more. I let it dry right on there.

Ok the caulk is acrylic latex caulk plus silicone by Alex Plus- it's house caulk. I fidgeted with the spout from the inside of the container (with the wine inside) until I got the leak to look like it stopped by wiping away the stains with a paper towel. Once the leak stopped I put the caulk...

Mine is also not yet bubbling out of the airlock- should it be doing that yet???

It is Pinot Noir. I have attached three photos - the one with the cup is a photo of the stuff I found floating on the top of my wine. the one with the white plate behind it is a close up photo of the sampler and is the stuff I found to be (what I believe is) sitting on the bottom of...

Nothing in particular made me decide it was bacteria- I just saw white things floating on the top, tried to look it up, and decided i ruined everything haha. There were only a few specs floating on the top so i removed them with a spoon and that is all I have done so far. This is my first...

So I just put the kid on my 6 gallons of wine yesterday and opened it today to stir and found small white clumps of bacteria on the surface of my red wine. When I inserted the sampler I also got about an inch of small granules from the bottom that I don't remember getting yesterday, but I am...