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Good info - hopefully easier to avoid than to encourage!

Workflow biosecurity...bringing my day job home. Extra sanitation I can do (although some might say that is already overkill - never!) Thanks for the quick response.

Had the privilege of working on a non-profit board with a family member of a local, well respected wine shop. I made the comment a few years ago about not liking roses (too sweet). Without being too tacky about my age, he gently suggested I was overly influenced by the Beringer White Zinfandel...

Will be starting 2 Chilean juice buckets later this week and intend to co-inoculate with MLB. I have a LE20 kit (grenache/tannat/shiraz) in process that would normally be sitting in the same area as the new buckets. Is there significant risk of accidental inoculation of the kit with MLB? Do I...

i just started the LE2020 Grenache Tannat Shiraz a week ago - same experience. Chapitalized up to 1.098 because I had already added most of the water.

I did - finally called them when I could never get the website to load the item into the cart. They said they didn't have any and were unsure when they would have the all grape pack again. :(

Has anyone been able to order these lately? I have been trying for awhile - not available.

One more technical possibility - how are you testing your SG? I was gifted a Tilt hydrometer awhile back - over time, it has proven to be reliable in the initial stages and almost useless when nearing the end of fermentation. I had several ferments that frustratingly 'stopped' early (around...

I speak this language!!!

Getting late in the season, but vin brûlée is another option. Our Italian daughter-in-law introduced us to it - nice on a dark, cold winter evening. Or a cool spring/fall evening at the cabin, sitting by the lake. Like sangria and wine coolers, quality wine is not an advantage. I can share her...

Excellent detail and description - thank you. I definitely want something 14% or below and have started the corrections. Interesting, my volume is right back up to (maybe slightly over) 6 gal, suggesting that the combination of shorting the water some and adding currants had more combined impact...

Thanks so much - definitely have no desire for a finished product that hot. So 15% of 5 gal = add 0.75 gal water. While I can do the complicated math, curious what shortcut you used (assuming you did)?

A woman with two watches... I have been using a Tilt (wireless hydrometer/thermometer) in addition to my regular hydrometer for awhile now. I quickly figured out that the Tilt's accuracy becomes iffy as the fermentation gets close to finishing - below 1.010, I rely on my hydrometer. So my habit...

Top off labelling: If making a kit, I use the labels that come with it to label carboys and top-off containers (just peeling back to part of the sticky). If making something else, I use the spare labels from a kit and just write on it with a sharpie. I don't use the kit labels for final...

Windchill here in MN -37 after the sun is up. I think I will wait to take the dogs out. Clearly a winery day.

It may be cold here (another fellow Minnesotan), but it is my relatives in the south who are experiencing "popping" right now - water mains, etc. We are prepared here - and yes, things come in from the garage. My cider keg is in the mudroom (a room I never knew existed before moving here).

Not nearly as much as I am hoping for one. 😊 March can be iffy with snow - when we moved up here, it was considered to be the snowiest month of the year (with the caveat that it melted more quickly than at other times of the year). Ice out on the lakes varies from mid-March to late April in the...

Nice to be able to see it so close and get a good picture. Appears to be a good sized bird - while hard to get accurate perspective on size, the plumage indicates an adult red-tailed hawk. Likely a female as they are substantially larger than the males.

Scottsdale + 63 degrees Eau Claire -7 degrees Might want to wait. March may be too soon.

Nice pics - hard to get of a typically fast moving bird.