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Thank you! I’m always so cautious and try to clean and sanitize everything before and it goes against what I’ve learned but I’ll give it a go

I want to start my first batch of skeeter pee Monday. I’m going to be racking off a Riesling kit from primary I started a couple of weeks ago. The SP recipe said to use a yeast slurry. Can I just dump the SP into that primary fermenter with the yeast slurry already on the bottom?

I did use sparkolloid. Not fizzy or sharp tasting. I added sorbate before the sugar. I let it clear after adding sorbate for a couple weeks before back sweetening

Stuff floating. I checked every bottle we opened and gave out and nothing like this. The ending SG was .992 and we backsweetened and waited 3 weeks before bottling. No sign of fermentation before bottling. I did use sorbate according to the instructions.

Bottled my first batch a couple weeks ago. Came out crystal clear after using a vinbrite filter. Drank/gave away prob 18 bottles of 30 so far. Went to get some out last night and every bottle looks like this now. None of the others had this problem. All stored on their side in a closet. Any ideas?

So I completed my first batch the other week and couldn’t be happier. The recipe called for the triple berry blend but noticed it says “blueberry blackberry raspberry”. The one I used had strawberry, blueberry, raspberry. The bags I bought yesterday have dark sweet cherries, tart cherries...

Well I finally bottled the wine after Running it through a vinbrite filter and very happy with the way it turned out. Already planning another batch after family started taking the bottles after trying it.

Ok so an update 4 days later. In the pictures it looks pretty clear when I shine a flashlight on it. If you get close and focus on the light beam, you can still see all this stuff suspended in the wine

@Rocky the instructions said add the sugar directly to the wine so that’s what I did. Dissolving it first does make sense and I’ll do that next time. This morning I checked it and it looks pretty much the same as yesterday before stirring so at this point, I’m going to assume it’s lees and let...

I don’t have anything else than sparkolloid .I stirred it for a good 10 minutes with a drill and wisk/degasser And back into the 6 gallon carboy. Guess I’ll give it some time

Thanks for the replies. Yes I racked off the lees before adding sugar in my fermentation bucket. Stirred for a few minutes and then racked to 6 gallon carboy that I’m in now. I’m about to racked it back into fermentation bucket and stir for longer. Should I add more sparkolloid? Will that hurt...

I made my first batch of dragons blood, exactly by the instructions provided. All went well, the wine cleared up amazing after a week. I racked and back sweetened with 4.5 cups of sugar (6 gallon batch). I stirred it for a couple of minutes with my drill attached whip. I tasted it and it was...

So I have made wine from a couple of kits before and they always include the ingredients needed and when to add. I have a gallon on the Viniters best strawberry concentrate. All it says is to add water to 5 gallons and pitch yeats, when its clear to bottle it. Seems to be missing some steps in...