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    Hard of soft water?

    I'm on a well. I have a water softener plus another system to treat for sulfur. Distilled water is relegated to the wife's CPAP machine and the final rinse of my labware. I've never had a problem with soft water when cooking, drinking or making wine. Distilled water has had vital minerals...
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    Post a Meme, any Meme! (no politics)

    Another nail in the coffin for HOAs
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    Super Transfer Pump

    With Steve's All In One pump system there is no worry about sanitizing your pump!
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    Post a photo, any photo

    @jswordy: Is the range induction or electric?
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    Post a photo, any photo

    Brings back old memories
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    Post a Meme, any Meme! (no politics)

    Don't get between a sow and her piglets else you become the next meal.
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    Apple varieties for apple wine

    They lack tannin. Green apples like Gravenstein or Granny Smith have tannin and there others that escape my memory that make decent wine.
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    Apple varieties for apple wine

    Don't use any Red or Golden Delicious apples.
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    What vegetables can wine be made from

    I've made tomato, garlic & jalapeño wines. If you're interested PM me and I'll give you my tips.
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    Heat Belt Accessory

    Once when I was fermenting wine in the fall of the year and the temperatures were falling I resorted to putting the carboy ( 3 gal size) into a Rough Neck storage container. Filled the tub with water and added an aquarium heater.
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    Mnemonics

    @bstnh1 : If you were in electronics back in the days of separate capacitors and resistors you would understand. It's an old man's thing. The colors represent a number, when strung together they represent the value of the resistor or capacitor.
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    What is gassing off from my already double-dry wine?

    Barometric pressure changes - daily.
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    Bottle drying

    Having experienced all your problems of drying bottles I scrounged around my junk box and found an old but workable aquarium air pump. Using a FastRack bottle rack I connect tubing from the air pump up into the inverted bottle mounted on the FastRack. Depending on atmospheric relative humidity...
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    Is it just me??

    @wood1954 , Yup, pigs and bulls
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    Tannins

    @winemaker81 And here I thought tannin was just tannin.
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