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Has anyone tried to carbonate DB ?

Thanks what I meant was where can I purchase such a gasket I live in Turkey not US and my tank is an Italian brand Sansone the diameter of the tank is 47 cm and the diameter of the lid is 42 cm so there is 5 cm difference as far as I can see spiedel has a gasket which is 44cm can I still use it ?

Thanks can you please give me a link ? which one are you talking about ?

Can you please tell me once the lid is floating after a few pumps do I set it 1 cm above the wine or just leave it as is and pump until 0.6 bar ?

Hi, Thanks for all the replies the gasket that I am using is the clear vinyl one, what I am wondering is rolling Teflon tape where the tube meets does it help ? and inflating the tube barely just it reaches the green zone 0.5-0.6 bar does that help ? also changing the rotation of the lid can it...

Hi Everyone, This is my first year in winemaking and I am having some problems with minimal leaking in my variable capacity lid. After racking everything went ok except setting up with the variable capacity lid, so I would like to explain how I did things in details so you can understand...

Hi, which clearing agents do you use ? if I decide not to use any clearing agents would chilling the wine and waiting for a longer duration help ? what do you recommend ?

Hi, how long do you wait before consuming it ?

Hi Everyone, My second fermentation is about to be finished in a few days, this is my first year and I got a Sansone 100lt ( 26.5 Gallon) conical tank. It has a small tap at the end but the problem ise it takes too much time to rack the wine from there, but anyway with this type of conical tank...

Not really fond of this airlocks so trying to figure out which one would be more suitable, appreciate any feedback.

Anyone have an opinion on this ? there is no leak but somehow it starts to drop very slowly so trying to understand why it happens.

Hi, I have a sansone tank which came with a variable lid and a pump, I first did a leakage test which went ok, it also have a vale just before the entrance of the lid gasket for double protection, so I did as instructed opened the valve first unwind the pump valve, inflated the gasket up to 0.8...

Hi Everyone, This is my first wine making experience and I purchased a variable capacity Tank from an Italian company called Sansone, The only thing that I am not very happy is the waterless airlock with two marbles inside, the first time when I installed the airlock I put the gasket to the...

Yes you are exactly right, that is what I thought to do because now the risk is too high to wait, I would press it tomorrow and hope that it finished in time

I did not press it yet so I am trying to decide whether to press and wait for it to finish along the way

Whole Grapes

Hi, I am making Cabarnet Sauvignon, Not I am not under airlock at the moment, My starting SG was 1.095 and the yeast I used is Fermentis Safoeno UCLM S377

Hi, Everyone, when I checked the gravity on day 8 the gravity was 1.000 next day I check it was the same this morning I checked again it's the same no change at all, so can we say that the fermentation got stuck if so how can we fix it ?

Hi, Everyone, as I am just starting, I am trying to understand how much grapes is needed lets say for a 8 Gallon fermentation bucket ? As far as I understand headspace is important should I only use 3/4 of the bucket to be on the safe side ? to this means I can top it up up to 6 gallons, bu to...

Hi, It is said that after primary fermentation, Malolactic Fermentation has to be done to make sure that it will crete the buttery mouthfeel, but in my country I could not find any ? in some videos they use Dry " Malolactic Bacteria - Viniflora CH16 " first of all is there any other way to...