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After some health problems (ankle surgery) I am back here and back to making wine at home. I have lot of 30 liters fermentation tanks (with huge lid on top) but not enough carboys. I prefer not to buy more and more carboys, not only due to expenses but also limited space. So I am very...

That couple liters (if not more) on the bottom...is it possible to save this wine ? Say I transfer (with pump as in my other discussion) huge majority of wine first and then I put this bottom wine with sediment into some other carboy or something...can it be filtered somehow, maybe even filtered...

Yesterday I tried my first wine ever. Meyer Lemon wine, made end of November 22, I used juice only and also fermented in a bag (juice was extracted manually and was not perfectly filtered, there were some small remains of fruits in it). I racked it twice (first from primary fermenter and then...

I had problems in February with plum wine fermentation. Today I tried this wine in one of tanks (50 liters beer keg), as it was time to rack and wine is very sweet. I never wanted to make it sweet, it must be result of stuck fermentation. (I did not measure SG, will do that properly in couple...

For many years, my favorite beer was Stout (Porter). Very dark brown, nearly black, heavy fluid, like drinking a worn diesel engine oil, eg Guiness. And typically higher voltage (6%-9%). Is it possible to make a "stout wine" ? What if I grab some barley, roast it hard on steel plate or somehow...

I found using syphons too slow to transfer round 25-26 liters after prime to carboy. And it was 3-5 tanks one by one-long time taken. I am interested if something like below could work (obviously after good cleaning first-pumping lot of hot water, some OxyClean, water again etc... Sure one needs...

Recently I asked some questions as I have problems with my first ever plum wines. Wines, not wine because I made couple different ones. Yesterday I removed fruit remains from 5 tanks and this is what I noticed: Dark blue-purple skin plums (King Billy) fermented no problems. Yellow skin and...

Independently of my problems with 2 tanks of plum wine, I want to ask about bentonite. In December I made about 20 liters of lemon wine, in about 3 weeks it will be time to transfer it 3rd time (last time ?). Wine looks very clean, beautiful light honey color, some sediment is still slowly...

Couple weeks ago I started 5 x 30 liters plastic fermenters of plums wine. Pretty much same all 5 tanks. Except that some were given 8kg of sugar syrup and some maybe 7 kg. 3 tanks fired up very quickly and were fermenting well, there is still minor bubbling present (one bubble every 15-20...

Week ago I started fermenting plums wine. I use 30 liters plastic fermenters and I have 50 liters beer kegs to use for racking and aging. I think I filled 30 ltr tank (two of them) with at least 15 liters of fruits (15 liters to each tank), I added sugar syrup and added clean, cold, filtered...

I have good several fruit trees in my garden, mostly citrus and plums. No chance to eat all that fruits, I made some jams before and now I started making wine (first was Meyer Lemons wine) and now time to make plums wine. In future maybe something stronger ;-) So I am a total beginner, I will be...