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Thanks for everyone’s help on sweetening and clearing my first batch of DB. It’s back to crystal clear and smells amazing. We’ll let it sit for a while longer and then bottle it.

Yeah I added that before and let it sit a week. It was crystal clear. I may have take gotten a little to close to the sediment when taking it out. I’ll let it sit for a while.

I just backsweetend my first batch of DB with Whitegrape Rasberry concentrate and it seemed to cloud up some. It was crystal clear before I added the concentrate. Can I add sparkloid again even though I added it last week before sweetening? SG was at .993 before sweetening and it had been down...

When you put the lids on are they just a screw type top or do they have some kind of safety seal too? Kind of like the kind that are on plastic soda bottles that leave a plastic ring on the neck once opened.

Thanks - this is very helpful and helps me breathe a little easier.

I appreciate everyone’s help with my first batch of DB. Now for another question - my batch started at 1.09 a few days ago and hit .998 today. It smells yeasty and not really fruity - is that normal? Also, I was planning on removing the fruit tomorrow and putting the airlock on for 2-3 days...

Thanks for the replies I pitched the yeast and will take my chances. I used frozen three berry fruit from Costco. Do I need to add a campden tablet? I didn’t see that in the instructions but have done it for other wines.

I just started a first page of DB and now have to go out of town for 2 days. I finished step one but haven’t pitched the yeast yet. Can I wait a few days or do I need to pitch it, stir it tomorrow and then skip a day and stir when I get back?

Thanks!!

Thanks - for the answers. We’ll definitely do it at the beginning and consider cubes if we want more for the bulk aging.

I’m so happy I found this forum! We just bottled our first kit after bulk aging for a year and were so excited by the taste that we decided to do another. This time we are going to do an RJS Super Tuscan with skins. When I opened the kit I noticed it has 2 packets of oak chips. However, the...