Rice_Guy

To get a good reading it should be floating freely. There is no rule that one has to fill the cylinder. ex I have one I cracked and...

Kits are designed to get the wine in your glass ASAP ... because if they said it will take a year to bottle and another year in the...

Shouldn't have to cranberries contain tannins.

It looks to me that your test cylinder is underfilled and your hygrometer is maybe sitting on the bottom and therefore leaning on the...

Two issues. Yes, you bottled way too soon. White wines typically need 6 months of bulk aging to drop the majority of the fine lees...

Zooming in at your photo, the material is translucent. Crystals make sense. As a diagnostic if you have some in your mouth is it hard...

Try reduless it will help tame the h2s, it’s fairly easy to find on line. I’ve used in the past and it does work.

When caught early rotten egg is fixable. If the H2S is extremely obvious I would plan on a copper treatment. The easy to control...

With Briana and thiol powder (phantasm) and a thiol cleaving yeast in primary I had more aromatics than any other grape I’ve run...

The good part of this, the cheese curd trail...

On a practical note, there are a bunch of logistics that have to take place for a roadtrip. You have to decide if you want to bring...

I see one of the sizes offered is that illusive 2.3 gallon size, I may have to get one.

Good answers above, pulp generally means foam. Another property is how stable is the foam? There is some variation in polar (charged...

You should stir it several times a day to release the CO2 that is lifting the fruit cap. There is no danger in stirring it several times...