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How do you press the grapes?

Looks like a really clean batch of fruit should make some great wine

After 24 hours I pressed the grapes with my newly modified press. Out of 125 lbs of grapes I only got about 4.5 gallons of juice. It...

I harvested my itasca grapes today. I didn’t wait for them to all turn golden because I was seeing some rot. The ph is 3.26 and the SG...

Foch is harvested. Beautiful morning in Utah Ph 3.83 Brix 26.6

I don’t think a cyanide detector would work as the pits have amygdalin which metabolizes to cyanide. I think the yeast act as a poison...

I’m not the sharpest pencil in the box so I need this dumbed down … a lot. These are the nuggets I got from this study. BTW, I am not...

From that study: The pits were then ground to a relatively fine, homogeneous powder using a Tefal the Real Grinder. I don’t know anyone...

Exactly my point, why would you crush the pits? Is there a difference between organic cyanide from pits and inorganic cyanide?

I’ve never pitted plums and have never had a problem. I think some things just keep being repeated without any basis in fact. I also...

Yes I was talking about Marquette. My vines leaves generally stay green and healthy into October. You might want to add Captan to your...

my brix is about 15-18 so I'm on schedule for mid september. the acid level is what determines picking tho. I go thru the vineyard every...

Today we enter month six of the four-month kitchen project, and so I went to H-D and picked up my order of flooring. I finally have the...

Looks like some of my vines. The extension office said it was phomopsis. Not much you can do now. Next spring after pruning try using...

time is your greatest ingredient. Dawg PS when you can watch flies die of boredom then you ready to let wine age. Dawg Time, patience