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Well I finally got this one in the bottle (for the second time)! I bottled it last year after 11 months in the carboy and got the now...

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...