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    low-cost pH meter maintenance?

    I also have a 15$ meter from Amazon. Might be the same one, mines orange though. Storing it in liquid prevents the probe from drying out. If you use it often. Once a month. You should be fine. You don't need to dry the probe though. Just rinse with distilled water and shake it dry.
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    Adding Commercial Wine to Homemade Wine

    If your friend was buying a non grape desert wine yes it would take on some of the flavor. But you would have to add at least 1 bottle per gallon and have a strong flavor to begin with raspberry BlackBerry etc... You would have to stabilize the wine first though. K-meta sorbate. Adding a red...
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    Ready for Snowmageddon??

    Middle maryland. Dont have cable so I had to have someone tell me there was a storm coming. Made about 5#s of pulled pork bread and started a strawberry wine. Opened a bottlee of whiskey tonight I got for grandma. It had a tax stamp on it from 1980. Have one from 1970. Wished it aged like...
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    Carboy Storage

    That is literally a ton of wine. I wouldn't build that out of wood. Invest in some metal shelving. Not saying to buy this but this is the style you should be looking at...
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    hydrometer ?

    Basically. Although if the yeast says it maxed at 14% that doesn't mean it won't go to 15 or 16.
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    Safe to use plastic vinegar jugs to ferment grape juice?

    I'm cheap glass 1 gallon carboys are only 5 dollars at my brew store. 4 bucks each of you buy 4. Craigslist for the big guys. Just bought 3 5 gallons for 10 each. Patience. Plastic degrades and leeches over time in the short run there fine but consider the investment of glass. Don't drop...
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    rassberriiesd

    awesome scooter. My first was black rass as well. Guy at the brew store told me I should start off with a kit. Told him I can buy the finished product at the store. I do a blend of 1 part black rass 2.5 parts red welchs. Sweetened by about 0.008. At only 6 months it's delicious.
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    Slow fermenting nc-1118

    I think we all do it. Worry about the batch until it takes off. I started one last night and felt like I did something wrong until about an hour ago.
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    Slow fermenting nc-1118

    First off damn your metric system. Making me do math before I can even respond. 20 degrees Celsius is fine. The juice was probable just to cold when you added the yeast. When it warms up it should be fine. Probable won't see any real activity until 48 hours from when you added yeast...
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    rassberriiesd

    Red can have a tart kick you you in the back of the teeth bite. Black are sweet and smooth. I used to love the red then I bought a house with a 400 foot row of black. Wander around the tree lines in late June and pick some you'll see me with at least a gallon of them. 4#s per gallon is a...
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    Sanitation Tube.

    It's a good idea. PVC does leach though proven carcinogen. You need CPVC but I don't think they make it in large diameters. You'll probable be fine if you just change the solution often. All plastics leach more at low temps freezing and higher temps.
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    Banana wine

    I was thinking about 30#s for 5 gallons. After hearing 12#s per gallon from dralarms I feel like I need more. Do bananas actually have enough liquid in them that you don't have to add water though?
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    Please help

    They look like there starting. Another 12 and you'll know.
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    Banana wine

    So what yeast strain do you use? Do you use anything for body? If you freeze the over ripe bananas can probable just put them in whole. They should fall apart on there own.
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    First time dragons blood

    Going to use Dave's recipe. Using 71b. I'm making a black raspberry wine now was wondering if I'm better off using the yeast cake from that. Also do I not sulfite before adding yeast because of Realemon ingredients. (Make must wait 24, yeast) 20 cups of sugar is roughly 8 1/2 #s ?
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    experimention

    You'll never know till you make them. You can buy the finished product of a kit at the store. Wild berries will have more flavor them anything you can buy.
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    Banana wine

    Dralarms so glad you commented. I did use peels and boiled mine for 30 mins per a jack keller recipe. I added golden raisins but will never do that again it was just to much of a pain when racking. Clogged hoses. I was planning on a can of three of welch white grape. My question for you is...
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    Banana wine

    Made a gallon of banana wine a year ago now it taste great. And was thinking of making a 5 gallon batch. Questions. Has anyone made wine with the smaller red bananas? I think there called reeds. They cost more but they taste amazing. Any yeast suggestions? I used ec-1118 for the first...
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    experimention

    I make what's in the backyard. I prefer the black raspberry wine over the BlackBerry. I drink the BlackBerry straight. The black raspberry taste amazing though when you blend with grape wines. I like to ferment separately then blend. My vote would be the raspberry. The raspberry comes of...
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    Advice regarding Weighing down grape skins

    I do it the lazy way and use a piece of stainless steal and leave it in the primary. Never had a metallic taste. Couple bucks at the depot and cut it to size. It's not about saving a couple of cents to me. Sanitizing is just boring. That's why I rack all my wines at once clean sanitize one...
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