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Good stuff .... thanks. I had to google a stainless steel bladder press!

This could possibly end up as my favorite topic on WMT because raspberry is my favorite. Since 2016 I've been making the Island Mist raspberry kit 1-2 per year, but my goal is to do something different this year and use real raspberries and not just the favoring like Island Mist. BigDave ... I...

thruhike00 ..... I'm sorry this happened to you. It just sucks ... sucks! I'd also like to thank you for sharing this with us as it will be a reminder a catastrophe can happen with a big mess. This happened to my brother in law about 3 yrs ago and since that day I've been sitting my ferment...

Now I'm committed! 🤣 I purchased 1,000 of the Nomacorc 500 so it appears I've got to make 1,000 bottles of wine! Here we go.

Merry Christmas my Finer Wine Kit friends ..... I plan to celebrate tonight with a FWK Tavola Pinot Noir that is 10 months old.

The cinnamon in the Apple was perfect at less than five days! Had I left the cinnamon in the carboy for another 3-4 days it might have been to much but the conciseness from family was it was just right. I'm so glad we checked it. Figured this awesome Apple / Cinnamon wine needed a bad ***...

Just a thought ... but you could use two 375ml bottles when bottling ten gallons or (49 bottles of 750ml & 2 bottles 375ml) and prior to the wedding periodically open a small 375ml for testing.

Maybe ... we will find out tonight. I also have almost another 3 gallons of Apple to use for thinning if needed. Stay tuned for results later tonight after our family gathering. 😉

And so it continues! The Apple wine has cleared so I split it into 3 gallon carboys and added two small cinnamon sticks to only one carboy. Its been sitting for 3-4 days so tonight we might take a small tester glass off to get an idea how things are going. I don't plan to bottle until mid...

I have recently made both the Island Mist & FWK blackberry, and have several bottles of each. They could not be more different in my opinion and I love them both! Good luck with the FWK blackberry. You'll do just fine.

Pretty cool story starting in July 2021.

I am learning patience myself. On my first 6 gallon red wine, I was able to let it sit in bulk aging for about 8 months before racking half into a 3 gallon glass carboy to finish aging and bottling the remaining giving me 15 bottles to drink. My PN with no skins seemed ready at eight months...

I'm currently using mine on a WineExpert Reserve kit. Pour in the juice, fill to six gallons, and very carefully mix in only about half of the bentonite after you've crushed the bentonite in the package with a hammer to make a dust. In my previous use of the FastFermenter the bentonite...

Yes, I made it this year along with the FWK Tavola Pinot Noir at the same time but I would not be a good source for information on the Grenache Rose. I'm not not a dry white wine drinker but hoped the Grenache Rose would ease me into blushes and whites but I made a rookie mistake and tried to...

Guessing my FWK blackberry is sweet because last night I opened a bottle, took a reading, and it was 1.020 sg. Still, having taken the reading, I would make it the same way again because for my taste is was perfect. Fall of 2024 FWK blackberry

On a personal side note to bottle sanitation, I was gifted 100 bottles or so from a friend who had them in his barn for a number of years. All of the bottles had either spiders, mold, wasps, mold, beetles or mold and more mold. Yep, hauled those suckers back to my house and looked at those...

2 ½ would be the whole conditioner / sweetener packages. It comes with two packages but I added half of another package and would make it the exact same way next year. We lean towards sweeter fruit wines although I'm trying to transition to dry reds. After adding one whole conditioner it was...

My starting SG was 1.090 and ended at .998 so it was at 12% abv. I added 2 ½ conditioner / sweetener so its on the sweeter side for us however and now over a year old its even more awesome. I went from Island Mist blackberry to FWK blackberry ..... reminds me of the Wizard of Oz when it goes...