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So I complete forgot MLF and was wondering if I could still try it. I dont have the ability to test for SO2. I have 12 gallons of red wine from frozen must. I pressed the grapes, let the lees settle, racked it off the lees and filtered it, and now its in bulk aging (12 gals after filter). It's...

Looking for gently used PH tester for my wine.

Hey folks! I'm looking for some Tempranillo. I ordered 3 pails from Grapemasters but due to NO fault of their own it got screwed up. The postal service screwed it up, 1 pail arrived hot and busted, wrapped in a trash bag, zero juice and hot stinky grapes. The other two still havent showed up...

Just pressed and racked my Mourvedre, from winegrapesdirect. For starters, this was the first wine that I've ever had blow through the airlock. The must was super thick. Overwhelming amount of grapes. It felt like I needed a 10 gallon bucket. I was provided opti-red, go ferm, and fermaid-o to...

So I racked and pressed today into a glass carboy. I've got several inches of headspace. Ended up with about 3.5 or so gallons of wine. I have some marbles on order for delivery tomorrow, and a smaller carboy on saturday if needed. too much to add a like-wine to it. Is 24-48 hours with a 5...

Background: 2013 Nebbiolo crushed grapes in fermentation using BM 4x4 yeast. Starting Brix were 23, today (day 5) we're at 5.5 Brix, averaging 3.5 brix a day. Fermentation was slow to start, but I took a reading every day but day 2. Once it hit 15 brix reading, or about 1/3 of the way through...

Harbor Freight...the dollar general of hardware stores is having a sale on work benches. Someone in a facebook winemaking group posted about it, so I ran out and got it at 8 am. 5 hours later I have a "wine bench" to help with my lack of space. It costed all of $79.99 and 5 hours of ikea-like...

Any thoughts on the pro/con of pouring must into a a brewing bag to catch the grapes and leave them in the must to ferment, vs letting them free float?

Looking for some info on up-scaling. Right now I'm eyeing up the white, food grade trash cans at home depot. If what I have fermenting right now goes well, I want to do a lot more at once. Any tips or advice on upscaling? Right now space is sort-of a problem. I live in northern VA in a town...

Weird question, I know, but I've played with winemaking for a bit, had some great results and some horrible results. Currently have 5 gallons of grapes/juice fermenting. You'd think i'd have picked this up earlier but before I was getting started on this batch I was picking up some stuff at a...

Hey everyone, Been a long time since I've posted. Long story short, I've been deployed to a combat zone and back, and now I'm back, and since then, my wife and I are expecting. I've had a lot of trouble readjusting and finally one day I thought that I needed to get back into some hobbies from...