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I have a pail of riesling juice from WGD. It is about 45-48 F now, at 8:25pm. Is that too cool to pitch? I really don't want to wait until morning, getting ready for work and all that. But I don't want to be up until midnight either... Edit to say never mind, by time i stirred it up and poured...

I have some bottles left of a hard apple cider i made 5 or 6 years ago. Just opened a bottle, it has a kick to it, around 9% abv iirc. Crystal clear, some sediment, a few bubbles although I didn't prime for carbonation. Fermented bone dry from 5 gallons of fall grocery store sweet cider, with...

Just a general question: I see some discussions that mention possible smoke taint issues for 2020 grapes and juice out of CA and OR. Is a little smokiness that big a deal? Some varieties on the WGD mention that as a possibility. I am just curious.

I am using a Speidel 30L fermenter for only the second time, and my goof was not marking a gradation line for 23L ahead of time, resulting in me losing track of how much water I was adding to the 14L WineXpert kit (Double Noir LE20, Gamay Noir and Pinot Noir, supposed to make 6 gal.), and...

Last Saturday I kicked off my 2019 Gewurztraminer (frozen juice pail from WGD). SG 1.086, left at room temp until Monday, when it went to cooler room upstairs, air set to 62F. Added 3 gms Fermaid-O on Wednesday. SG this morning was 1.052, so I suppose it's right on track. Smelled good, tasted...

I have 20 or 30# of granulated honey that came from a cousin of my wife, after her husband passed away a couple of years ago (he bought a 50# bag of the stuff, because he always bought the quantity of almost anything that calculated to the lowest price per unit / serving). Can it be used for...

So I have this hairbrained idea to toast my own oak from my own tree. There's a Post Oak in my backyard that died last spring, and needs to come down anyway. Species is Quercus stellata, and it's in the White oak family. Slow growing, decay resistant. It's thoroughly dry, so is there any...

Found this forum through a post at homebrewtalk.com, and thought I'd check it out. I have been making homemade wine for about 12 or 13 years now, but none in the past 4 years. Until I got the bug again, and have two batches going now, with a kit awaiting it's turn in the fermenter. I'm also a...