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It is too early to drink that wine - it is just past first fermentation phase - I need much time to ferment it :).

Thank you very much for this tip on balloon trick. I just put balloon on and hopefully will have wine to top up carboy before stabilizing. Thanks again!

I just hit very unusual problem for me. I bought 23L/6US Galons "The Original Alljuice" kit and bought extra Grape Skins package. I did not have to add any water to my kit - it was 23L ready for fermentation. I added juice and Grape Skins and today transferred wine from primary fermenter to...

Thank you - I was waiting for the answer - I am going to do this right now.

Hello, I searched this topic and I am finding different answers. I am doing bulk aging of Amarone red vine - my first batch that I bulk age. I have 6 gallons, that now is in carboy. I want to rack to another carboy and wait for another 3 months (so 6 in total). I understand I need to add...

I have a follow up question - how to de-gass wine in carboy. I bought myself electric vacuum and all necessary fittings. I must say it is much easier than break bleeder - you just turn it on and watch bubbles going up (you can see in attached picture how much bubbles). So my question is - how...

I am very newbie at wine making - I started from Sep 2015 - we are talking 4 months here :). If I would have done bulk aging for a year, I would still have to wait before I could take advantage of my hobby. There is no way I can wait so long before I can start consuming my wine. As I am...

I am from Canada and for that brake bleeder I paid 70+$. I can see vacuum pump like this: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B005CO9FDW/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Will this be good enough? It is 1.5CFM, your recommended is 2.5CFM - will that make any difference? Do these vacuum pumps all have standard...

Hi, Just bought brake bleeder and trying to follow your suggestions. It is very hard for me to get vacuum above 20''. I am pumping like crazy, but it never goes above 22'' and even that with a lot of effort. As soon as I move bottle a bit, lots of bubbles appear and vacuum drops to around...

How can you use brake bleeder to de-gass wine? I am trying to find instructions, but I cannot. Can you please describe in a bit more details?

I now realized that one batch of wine I made has too much gas. I am finding that I cannot properly de-gass wine when I try to do that in carboy, even if I am using drill attachment for that. Other batches that I de-gassed in primary fermenter has no such problem. So can I fix wine that has too...

Based on wine kit instructions, degassing is done just after secondary fermentation, just before clearing. Can I do de-gassing at any time after? That is if 2-3 weeks/month after secondary fermentation I notice that wine still has some CO2, can I use my power tool with special wand to de-gass...

Doctor CAD - for me making wine is not just about following step by step guide - I am trying to understand what I am doing. I learned about each chemical I add to wine and I learned about each step. When I see different instructions it tells me that there are more than one way to do the same...

Actually "Argentia" wine kits also add bentonite at the start. I compared other ingrediants and they are exactly the same. There is difference in oak, grapes, grape skins, oak cubes, but that should not matter. You are right, WE instructions say that if you are planning to keep wine after...

I just compare wine kit instructions of WineXpert and Argentia and was very surprised to find 2 big differences. Difference 1: Step after Secondary fermentation: Argentia: Syphone the wine from the carboy on the table to clean carboy on the floor, being careful not to disturb the sediment...

Up to now I assumed that when I transfer wine (from kit) from primary to secondary fermenter (carboy) I should leave all sediments in primary. Was I doing this wrong? I am reading here that: Transfer does not mean rack. While the solids are strained off and discarded, the liquid and lees are...

Hi I am doing red wine in my primary fermenter now - Argentia Coast Cabernet Sauvignon. As per instructions I am supposed to leave this wine in primary fermenter for 9 days. I also added oak chips into primary fermenter. If I move my wine to carboy for secondary fermentation after 7 days that...

OK thank you. Did my wine got too much oxygen? There was no airlock. My understanding during primary fermentation you do not need airlock because CO2 protects wine from oxygenating. But last few days clearly there was not enough CO2, so is there are potential damage to my wine? Is there any way...

I already did one wine kit and it end up OK. Now doing second wine kit from Costco Canada: "Argentia Coast Amarone" Started with gravity 1.085 As per instructions in primary fermenter I kept it for 9 days. Instructions say "on day 10 gravity should be 1.020 to 1.010". Today I checked...

Thanks for replies, yes now I see that top looks like beer bottle top. So if that is the case - can I use them for wine, or should I just take them to recycle? Or if I buy #7 cork - will that work?