30 bottles ?

[Rocky_Top]

7/22/2008 My wife bought me a six gallon wine starter kit for my birthday


7/25/2008 I got the kit in the mail (Thanks George!)

7/26/2008 I started my kit

8/1/2008 SG = 1040 before racking the kit I tasted the wine. It was rough and gassy.So I took another taste to be fair, still gassy. While racking to carboy I spilled some in the pan, drank it too. cleaned out the bucket and found that I could drink some out of the bucket too.

8/2/2008 tasted the kit to make sure that it did not have an infection from racking. still gassy.

--------George said in his videos that you should always taste the wine at different stages to learn more about wine. So I tasted it every day. still gassy

8/13/2008 SG = 996 . Added finishers. racked to three gallon carboy and topped off with 1/2 gallon of watter. drank what spilled into the pan. tasting a little better.

8/14/2008 Was amazed how much better the wine tasted yesterday so I thought That I would taste it again to make sure that it was really that good. This time it tasted a little watered down. after tasting it I had to top it back off but did not want to water it down any more so I added some marbles.

8/16/2008 had to buy 500 more marbles.

8/18/2008 had to buy 1000 more marbles.

8/20/2008 Started 2nd kit.

8/21/2008 had to travel to the next town to buy more marbles.

8/26/2008 Can not fit any more marbles in carboy.

8/27/2008 time to bottle. For all of my hard work and time I only got 3 and 1/2 bottles of wine. What a rip off!! (I drank the 1/2 bottle) Well my wife said that I needed a hobby. I put the three bottles in my new 240 bottle rack. It is going to take a long time to fill up that rack.



I Have to go, I just remembered that it is time to rack that second batch.

 

[Wade E]

What kt was this? Sounds like you need to do a better job at racking off the lees without loosing too much or sampling.

 

[Rocky_Top]

I sampled about a pint each day

 

[Wade E]

 

[Scott]

Maybe top off with a like wine and buy two then can sample what is leftover and not so much of the product

. I like your testing procedure though, since it's time to do your second batch better buy 3.
Happy belated birthday

 

[uavwmn]

ummmm Rocky, little less tasting equals more bottles to fill up that wine rack!!!

 

[hannabarn]

The spelling in your post is still good! You need to sample more wine to correct that!!! A pint a day is a little light.

 

[moose]

 

[Rocky_Top]

If I keep five or so kits going and use smaller bottles on bottling day, I might get that rack filled in ten or twenty years. (Or maybe not, My wife is staring hard at those three bottles)
These kits are much better than a $15.00 bottle at the wine store. And you can drink a pint without getting a head ache.