Recent content by wood1954

We’ve had really wet and cool weather this spring which really helped what I believe is phomopsis, when it was wet it was like a black mold. I wanted to spray lime sulfur before the buds swelled up, but I had a sore back and it seemed to rain every day. So, I sprayed mancozeb, captan and...

I’m working on a talk/demonstration about acids in wine making for my wine making club. I’m not a chemist so I hope I don’t mislead anyone.

I add at crush and then after 2nd racking, so about a month after fermentation is done. If you don’t do MLF maybe the malic acid is coming thru.

I add a lot of tannin to my Marquette and it stays fine and gets better after a day or two. Maybe add tannin to your Marquette

Bosagrape sells smaller packages, they are in Canada so it takes a little longer to get it mailed to you. The manufacturer says to not freeze the yeast.

A bit of tannin and glycerin

Acid titration is really easy with a ph meter. Put 15 ml of wine in a small container so you can get a ph reading. Then add the sodium hydroxide cc by cc until your ph meter reads 8.2., depending on the strength of your sodium hydroxide do the math. If you use a solution of .067? your TA is...

I bottled the cranberry today. The haze settled out real nice. The wine is a bit tart at ph 3.51 and TA at 9.88, I think it has good flavor and aroma , sure to get better with a little age.

I used a large propane weed burning torch to retoast.

I made a holder for the staves so I could put them together, I also numbered them so they went together easy. I haven’t tested the barrel yet but every contact point looks tight and it held air when I lightly pressurized it.

Guess I don’t have to worry about bud break for a while.

Take it down in 5 gallon buckets

After reading this post I’ll appreciate sake a little more.

Natural black oak is what people call it here, it’s a type of red oak. I harvested all the old trees as oak wilt was killing so many I figured I might as get them before the fungus does.

What do you mean by veneer plaster?