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Nylon mesh laundry bag, for about 2 bucks. Wash and rinse well, sanitize if you feel like with a little kmeta solution only and wring out. Line a pail with the bag and pour the must into the pail. Slowly raise the bag and easily the skins will stay behind, but will not clog. Allow to drip most...

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Probably will have lowered viable cell counts of MLB. VP-41 is pretty strong strain, so if directly adding to wine didn't kill them all, should be ok. It any activity showing? bubbles, airlock bubbles, crackling sounds? If it is going, optimalo addition to wine would be a good idea. If no...

The buckets start by themselves most of the time. If left alone, often they finish dry and turn out quite well, but not always. Just add a competitive or nearly any strain of commercial culture to insure it finishes well. The yeast will have no problem assisting or finishing the final high...

Correction accepted. Over the years different metals including nickel, and bronze and zinc have been used. Recently only zinc and some copper. After plating is removed the zinc is there. I don't really feel safe ingesting zinc salts, which may remain soluble. Not safe to use acidic food in...

NEWSFLASH: You are not only getting copper in a scrubbie (if any at all) but chromium, molybdenum, nickel for sure, cadmium from slag waste, and likely other tocic metals. (they are mostly made in P.R. China) Majority of components is steel, not copper. Copper is too soft and malleable to work...

First of all, most meters advise against soaking in distilled H2O. besides their reasons, Dist Deionized H2O has absolutely zero buffering capacity, so whatever was on the probe is the direction the pH will drift. To calibrate, the probe should be rinsed, shaken dry then submersed with buffer...

I have this one, and it is pretty decent, and accurate. Order the standardized solution packets and you are set. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hanna-Instruments-pH-Tester-w-Accuracy-0-1-pH-/141169012488?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20de542f08...

Take a look at these: great closures at a great price and 100 per lot http://www.ebay.com/itm/331340748939?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 :HB

Why is the carboy half full? You should add... that is the best course of action...top up