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I've made Skeeter Pee before. Didn't really enjoy it. I've made regular Dragon Blood before and always enjoy it. This time I decided to make one batch of Regular Dragon Blood with Raspberries, Blueberries and Blackberries and it turned out clear. And made a batch at the same time of a...

I made 2 x 5 gallon batches of Dragon Blood. Fermented it dry. (Well currently it sits at 1.002 for a month) Racked it from bucket to carboy to carboy to carboy and degassed everytime. Also added metabisulfate and sorbate. I chose not to backsweeten. I have been filing bottles from the...

I find 1 tablespooon per 750 ml bottle is more then sufficient after fermenting dry.

Disregard the whole not clearing thing I guess. lol Maybe it was the tripling of the berries. Maybe it was the weird angle of sunlight. Maybe it was the thickness of the carboy. I don't know but I pulled a bottle and it was crystal clear in the bottle. Added 2 tablespoons of sugar as...

As stated above I racked these two batches on Jan 28 and added everything I stated above. Never really cleared too much. A lot of lees fell to the bottom over the next week or so. On Monday although not clear I racked to fresh carboys (leaving the lees behind obviously) to see if it would...

What is peoples average clearing time when not filtering? https://s27.postimg.org/djnkmzam9/image1_4.jpg https://s28.postimg.org/z2lp71q0b/image1_6.jpg I racked these two batches to the carboys on Jan 28 when they hit 1.000 Added 1/2 tsp Potassium Metabisulfate to each and mixed/degassed well...

Well I racked my 45ish litres from buckets to carboys. My carboys are only 5 gallon. Therefore I had about 4 litres plus I just couldn't waste so begrudgingly am drinking them. 2/3 Dragon Blood, some Ginger ale and a splash of Orange Juice and the wife and I are feeling no pain tonight.

Just curious if there can be any negative effects doing what I did. Had it fermenting for at around 71 degrees for about 11 days. When the batch hit just under 1.010 I put a heater close by for about 12 hours to finish it off quicker (didn't mean to get the batch up to 110 degrees but I...

mmmmmmm 8 days in the bucket and it's down to about 1.02 and I couldn't resist a taste. HOLY SCHNIKEYS!! That's some yummy blood red goodness!

Wowzers! Great Project. I probably should have built a wine room instead of the 600 square foot deck we just had built since I live in snow country and only get to use the deck half the year. :) I'm planning to build this EXACT setup in my "wine room" which is really just the far end of...

Thanks. Another question. When do I want to snap the lid down and add a bung and bubbler? After I add the yeast?

I'm about to start my first batch(es) of Dragon Blood. I have 2 five gallon carboys so will adjust the recipe accordingly (doesn't look like I have to adjust much0. I'm confused by the one step though. Carefully rack off one gallon of wine into a cleaned and sanitized container, and set...

Day 28 On day 23 both carboys were still quite cloudy so I poured in a pack of kieselsol and a pack of chitosan into each carboy and mixed well. Within a day or two one carboy became very very clear except for some lees collecting on the sidewalls and a good half inch of lees on the...

Day 18/~420 hours. Racked back to clean carboys. Added 1/2 tsp Kmeta and 2 1/2 tsp sorbate to each 5 gallon batch. Degassed with one of them thingies on a drill for a solid 10 minutes forward/reverse. ================================= Day 20/~475 hours. Very cloudy still...

Day 17/400 hours One carboy is sitting at .998 and the other at .996. Neither is bubbling much anymore so I splash racked into buckets and snapped lids onto them with bubblers. In about 24 hours after they have settled I will splash rack back to the cleaned carboys and add the sorbate...

Thanks. Sounds like the wife wants me to use a rasberry concentrate rather then a cranberry concentrate for flavour in one of the 5 gallon batches. I'll add one can once its clear and ready for backsweetening and go from there. =========================================== Day...

At day 6 (144 hours) the primaries were both at 1.01 and I racked them to carboys before leaving for 5 days. Came back home last night and they were still bubbling away nicely. Checked the SG on both tonight (day 12/288 hours) and they are at between .998 and 1.000 and still bubbling away...

SG last night was down to 1.03 on one and 1.026 on the other so i figure by tonight it'll be good to rack to carboys and stick a bung and bubbler in. thanks.

Thanks Rich. I'll try to make time tomorrow night to rack to carboys. Hopefully I'm down to 1.02ish