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  1. rustbucket

    For Sale Central Florida wine making equipment for sale

    I would like to talk to you about some of the stuff you have. How close to The Villages do you live?
  2. rustbucket

    Glass or Plastic Carboy ?

    This happened once to me when lifting a full plastic carboy up onto the counter for bottling. Some of the Kmeta solution in the 3 piece airlock I was using was sucked into the carboy as I lifted it, thus changing the carboy's shape. I switched to twin bubble airlocks for plastic carboys after...
  3. rustbucket

    Food for Thought

    FOOD FOR THOUGHT 01. If a bottle of poison reaches its expiration date, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous? 02. Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C? 03. Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned? 04. Every time you clean something, you just...
  4. rustbucket

    how did you start winemaking?

    My wine making started in college when I came across a recipe for Balloon Wine in the Whole Earth Catalog. The recipe called for Welches Grape Fruit Juice concentrate, sugar, and bread yeast. I mixed it up, put it in an empty Almandine gallon wine bottle with a balloon over the top. According to...
  5. rustbucket

    The battle of the pH meter!

    After a few years, PH probes loose their accuracy. So, I recently upgraded my Apera PH20 to a Apera PH910. It's an awesome piece of scientific testing equipment that gives measurements to two decimal places, has replaceable probes, and keeps up to 100 readings in memory. The only negative is...
  6. rustbucket

    Bus Stop Family

    Two men met at a bus stop and struck up a conversation. One of them kept complaining of family problems. Finally, the other man said, "You think you have family problems? Listen to my situation. A few years ago, I met a young widow with a grown-up daughter, and we got married. Later my father...
  7. rustbucket

    RJ Spagnols Hydrometer in Wine

    After multiple distractions from phone calls and people at the door attempting to sell me a water filtration system, I got back to adding the Kmeta/Sorbate package from my French Rose wine kit to the wine I racked from a primary fermentation bucket to a carboy for clearing. I used a drill...
  8. rustbucket

    Vineco Kit Sale

    More Wine has some of their lower end Vineco wine kits on sale with free shipping on orders of $60 or more. Just wanting an off dry white wine for the one neighbor who drinks thatwine, I ordered a $45 Riesling kit plus some corks to qualify for the free shipping.
  9. rustbucket

    New Michigan Winemaker!

    Welcome to WMT.
  10. rustbucket

    RJ Spagnols RJS En Primeur Chilean Carménère

    I made both kits, the Malbec 2 years ago. The Malbec turned out very well and has become a favorite with my neighbors.
  11. rustbucket

    Florida, yes, Florida.

    Muscatine grape based wines taste like kerosene to me. Hopefully your efforts bring those of us living in Central Florida a good local red vinifera wine to enjoy.
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