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    Dragonblood (Ingredient quantity for one gallon?) Verses original 6- gallon recipe.

    Here's what I've come up with: 8 oz Lemon Juice 1.5 Lb. Sugar 1 tsp. Tannin* 3 tsp. Yeast nutrient* 1 tsp Yeast energizer* 3 tsp Peptic Enzyme* 1 Lb. Berry blend Please note the four items marked with an asterisk (*) have not been reduced in quantity from the 6-gallon recipe. Should they be...
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    My Blueberry! Uh Oh!

    Bigdavek:This morning (yes, morning) I opened a small (375ml) tasting bottle of wild blueberry wine bottled 5 weeks ago. OH MY GOD! THIS is why I started making wine! It is so good and I am so happy - and thinking I need more carboys. Yeah, uh oh. This changes everything.
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    Using marbels to fill headsace. For one-gallon carboys,what is the accepted method?

    Using marbles to fill headspace. For one-gallon carboys,what is the accepted method?
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    Wine fountain

    I too, had a wine fountain, but my parameters were different. Mine was apple juice in a one-gallon plastic bottle. I fermented it with only the natural sugars--it was thin and not tasty (Dry?), but had a tiny bit of carbonation. I tried to add 1 1/2 cu of sugar to re-ferment and the fountain...
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    Any suggestions to make plastic bottle juice wines better?

    Thank you...thank you. You've zeroed in on the one thing I need to do (and I knew it!). That is, the value of using use a Ph meter. And your other tweaks will be extremely valuable too.
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    Any suggestions to make plastic bottle juice wines better?

    Really like your you-be-you attitude
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    Any suggestions to make plastic bottle juice wines better?

    Makes sense. Good info. thanks!
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    Any suggestions to make plastic bottle juice wines better?

    Thank you. I'll check them out.
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    Post a Meme, any Meme! (no politics)

    meme /mēm/ noun 1. an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations. 2. an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic...
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    Any suggestions to make plastic bottle juice wines better?

    In his 1974 book,* H E Bravery has this to say about wine making using extracts: “….it is the simplest, the least troublesome and the most rewarding of all adventures of all wine making.” The above extract wine making is identical to today’s ‘In-The- Bottle’ wine making except, Bravery requires...
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    Any suggestions to make plastic bottle juice wines better?

    Following Paw Paw’s, You Tube instruction: Select a 64-ounce bottle of pure juice (apple, grape, cranberry, etc.) without any preservatives. Remove 2 cups of the juice to make room for sugar Add 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of yeast (Fleischmann’s Active Dry [or wine]). Tightly screw cap...
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    new welding kit advice

    I sense that you maybe joking about borrowing the wife's oven. But there is a creative gent in my area who did build an extension on an existing oven for powder coating and it worked! I didn't see it work -but the build was clever. Unfortunately, I can't cite specfic details about the build...
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    All-In-One Vaccum-pump man

    "....My only challenge was finding a single clear wine bottle in the UK that wasn't a screw top design." Just curious. Are screw top bottles not usable because the are not able to withstand the pressures involved when using the vacuum system? Thanks
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