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I stay busy motoring around here so the bottle processing to remove the labels and boil out the insides of raw bottles doesn't take much...

Way more work than necessary. I de-label in a hot oxyclean soak then rinse and dry. Before use it’s a quick rinse with starsan. I’ve...

On a serious note, this sounds fine to me but I think I do less work to get what is the same result. I soak the bottles in hot...

My shop where I store them is not. It's a Boat - Welding - Fabrication - Mechanic shop. I don't seal the box tops after loading with...

If your bottles are clean, there is no reason to boil them.

Good one, no that pot is too small for when we boil crabs. Only boils bottles these days. I will boil 8-10 cases of bottles to clean...

Doesn’t that make your wine taste like crabs?

Well I put 24 bottles at a time in my crab boiling pot and boil them between uses for a hour then let them sit till cool enough to...

Well I have good news on the two Meads I made the first one the Spiced Mead (Ginger, Cinnamon Sticks, Cloves, Cayenne Pepper, & Owari...

I got a email where it was ask the starting SG and the bucket on the left was 1.141 after the extra fruit was added and the one on the...

I think you will love it!

Update on the Blueberry wine. The whole house smells like Blueberries. I did the gallon of water to 5 pounds of fruit. I can't imaging...

Thank you for your quick response. I saw it in my email but was busy correcting the very thing you were warning me about - adding too...

I added some initial sugar (2 cups/gallon) and then checked the Brix/SG. I added more sugar to reach the target of 20.0 Brix = 1.083 SG...

Ok, I'm on the same page with you. How much sugar per gallon are you using and are you using and "Grape" products (juice concentrate or...