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Need one more? My buddy wants a 6.6 gallon. This is firm he grows grapes and has been wanting one for awhile

Ok great we are planning to go!

Fred, we gonna do another barrel meet up?

Strange results for sure, but interesting none the less. Thanks!

put me down for a 30 liter buddy

Johnd raises good points however and remember YMMV, if you again in a glass carboy it doesn't do much, I'd age it for a year in a carboy, adjust as needed, then bottle age for a year. Bottle aging really helps the wine if you use natural corks. They have proven you get a small amount of micro...

Yes that is exactly what it means!

Yes Heather I got my last batch of grapes from Keystone(Petite Syrah) and its in my barrel now. I'm not making any juice wines anymore, the wine they make is thin and tasteless. The only exception from that is a juice bucket I got from Walkers last year (Noriet) that I combines with 3 lugs of...

I'm just north of the Allentown area, by "too much wine" I mean more wine that I have bottles for. I'm constantly tasting my wine and today I'm doing PH/SO2 checks on my kits I started this summer. A Nebbiolo and an Amarone. The Neb is pretty darn good and the taste of the Amaron at 6 months of...

I came to winemaking in a very round about way. Was a "bourbon maker" so many years then graduated to beer then wine. My fruit wine is great, grape wine is terrible. I started with juice buckets and ended up hating them. Then started doing grape/juice wines and they were almost as good a box...

I think overoaking your wine is more pronounced with a more aggressive oak like american oak. The 6.75G barrel I got from Fred at the meetup has a Syrah in it that I termed as a "break in" wine due to the fact that it was partly juice. Well my plan was at just got 6 weeks since that's the rule...

Sorry but I do know flextanks have their place but to say that evaporation doesn't improve the wine is a bit of a stretch. I only did one batch of syrah for 3 months and did a side by side taste test with a "control" that didn't go into the barrel. The differance was dramatic. The evaporation...

Meant upgrading to larger sizes. There are alot of old wives tales in winemaking I see repeated on here. I actually spend alot of time with professional winemakers. Finished wine is alot more resilient than most amateur winemakers give it credit for, so plastic is fine. I don't do long term...

Not that far I'd say less than an hour. I'm in New Tripoli

I doubt it too heavy and breakable

Just tasted my Syrah in the 25l barrel i got from Fred. Been 6 weeks and still not too oaky, I might stretch it to 9 weeks then filter/bottle and jump right into the Petit Syrah for around 12 weeks. Again if you gonna bottle age don't worry about over oaking. That mixed black I brought to our...

Would love another 25 and maybe a 30. The get together was alot of fun and we'd love another one

My Amarone kit I made earlier this year had a grape pack, plus I added a pound of organic raisins to the primary and did a 9 week EM on both of them. <running for cover>

I'm good friends with a local winery owner here in Eastern Pa. I was actually gonna source grapes from him this year. He lost his entire crop, he's a super picky guy and won't use marginal grapes. It was wet here and hasn't let up. We just had 2.5 inches of rain two days ago

Old Vine Zin is by far my favorite, Cab to be is like an comfortable pair of shoes. That being said I make 10X more Cab than Zin