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Although this is a meme and it may properly belong to the Memes thread ... it illustrates the conversation. 🤣

Marechal Foch 2024 This is tasted from a carboy into a glass and sweetened in the glass with corn sugar (dextrose) to SG 1.002. It is...

There is a sequence which happens. The base monomer is flavorless (Gallic acid/ ellagic acid ), this starts to polymerize creating...

Winemaking is biology, chemistry, and physics. You do not need a PhD in any to make wine, but after a few decades you might feel you...

10% is considered the threshold for wine to be long term stable. Sorbate prevents a renewed fermentation is sugar is added, but is not...

I don't think it's a waste of time, it's good research, AND........... you can emulate winemaker81 by saying "I have a research paper on...

take one egg white, mix it with a tiny bit of water and a tiny bit of salt and whisk it until it has one consistency i.e. not 2 layers...

These are all good points but do you understand what I was trying to describe. Use wine to push out the sanitizing solution into a waste...

I just don’t like the idea of sanitizer in my wine so I sanitize all tubing then run a little distilled water through them to clear it...

I agree with @BarrelMonkey, the concern is pumping too much of any sanitizer into the wine. You're not going to use the pump until the...

20 years ago, November and December were the mud months here. Almost all it did was rained in those months. That has gradually been...

Welcome Joe. You have come to the right place. Post your recipe (more accurately a process) first and folks will gladly offer advice.

Yeah that stuff is liquid. Better to get some manure pack with straw bedding from the neighbors heifer barn. At least that stuff can...

Yes, as Chuck and Dave know, we say "Come smell our dairy-air!"

I suppose if I top dress then cover with mulch the worms will eventually bring it down the roots. I’m going to have to fence the...