Rice_Guy

There are several forms of tannin. Some are particulate which the wine extracts like a cold brew coffee. Some are 100% soluble. Have...

Why? if you like Marquette grow it, if not don’t plant more If you like PP grow it, . . . You are far enough south you have vinifera...

It irritated me when kit vendors started combining K-meta + sorbate. But I understand that it is a slight cost savings to them. And for...

Thank you for replying. I’m just not sure what to do, if it’s ok then I will just let it do its thing. I don’t want to rush it. I...

* from a health point of view ethyl sorbate isn’t bad. If I was doing candy processing I could buy pallets of it. * YES, as a wine...

You seem to be anxious. Yes you could rack, wine is very forgiving. On my country wines I use time instead of sparkaloid. ,,, You...

1/4 tsp is good for 5g or 6g. Kmeta is an acronym for potassium metabisulfite. It binds to particulates and helps facilitate clearing...

Campden / potassium metabisulphite needs to be added periodically as long as you can get at the wine/ it isn’t in 750ml bottles. Some...

Definitely add the k-meta. If you are going to back sweeten and bottle soon, then add the k-sorbate as well. If you did add the...

At this point PP is the one red that seems to taste good. There is what I would call “northern hybrid flavor” in the other reds. PP...

I use the esky with frozen wine bladders approach for my kimchee, cucumber and sauerkraut fermentation and does the job really well. The...

If you do make that cabinet, I would be interested in knowing how you made it as I’ve been toying with the idea too.

I would build a mini-freezer into a cool room wall at the start. The temperature controller would work. Option two would be pump glycol...

My plan is to use old cool room panels and simply make a container that is 1.5m wide and deep and 2m tall. The door will be a single...

* The darkest color I have in hand is aronia. (where are you located ?) I like blackberry and black raspberry as coloring agents too...