summersolstice
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Not a kit, but I didn't see anywhere else to post the topic.
I ordered a Brehm's frozen juice pail last summer (prepaid) and it finally arrived this week. This being my first attempt at fresh juice, I decided to order a white variety. Brehm's whites are 5.25 gallons of pure juice while the reds are crushed grapes and, while the pail prices are similar, it takes two pails of reds to make the same amount of wine. These are very high quality products from select vineyards and that explains the price.
I ordered a 2007 Columbia Valley, WA Gewurztraminer. The pails have a label on the side showing the brix, PH, and TA and recommend approximate tartaric acid additions and a yeast style.
My pail was unloaded, along with a few pallets of other pails, from the reefer trailer, still at 0F. The trucking company I work for picked up the pail and shipped it 200 miles to my work location that same afternoon. I allowed the pail to thaw for 24 hours. By that time it was 95% juice with a large chunk of ice left floating. I tore the sealed plastic ring on the 6 gallon pail and dumped it in the primary. The next morning it was completely thawed but still cold and I added 1/4t of k-meta. The SG was 1.092. I arrived home for lunch seven hours later and pitched two packets of Lallemand 58W3 yeast and by that afternoon (yesterday) it was fermenting.
I've heard some very good things about this wine but it isn't cheap. I paid $175, delivered to Omaha. Anyone else have any experience with Brehm's products?
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Edited by: Rule G
I ordered a Brehm's frozen juice pail last summer (prepaid) and it finally arrived this week. This being my first attempt at fresh juice, I decided to order a white variety. Brehm's whites are 5.25 gallons of pure juice while the reds are crushed grapes and, while the pail prices are similar, it takes two pails of reds to make the same amount of wine. These are very high quality products from select vineyards and that explains the price.
I ordered a 2007 Columbia Valley, WA Gewurztraminer. The pails have a label on the side showing the brix, PH, and TA and recommend approximate tartaric acid additions and a yeast style.
My pail was unloaded, along with a few pallets of other pails, from the reefer trailer, still at 0F. The trucking company I work for picked up the pail and shipped it 200 miles to my work location that same afternoon. I allowed the pail to thaw for 24 hours. By that time it was 95% juice with a large chunk of ice left floating. I tore the sealed plastic ring on the 6 gallon pail and dumped it in the primary. The next morning it was completely thawed but still cold and I added 1/4t of k-meta. The SG was 1.092. I arrived home for lunch seven hours later and pitched two packets of Lallemand 58W3 yeast and by that afternoon (yesterday) it was fermenting.
I've heard some very good things about this wine but it isn't cheap. I paid $175, delivered to Omaha. Anyone else have any experience with Brehm's products?
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/motorcarrier/100_1583.jpg
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w289/motorcarrier/100_1585.jpg
Edited by: Rule G
