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Yesterday I received a request from the Astronomical Society of France. They want my Pleiades image (in quoted message above) to grace the cover of their January magazine! Wow! I've never been published before! (well, outside of the Westport Astronomical Society's (my astronomy club)...

I've always heard that the price of a kit in many ways is dependent on how much water you have to add to it. (the more water you have to add, the thinner the resulting wine ends up being, well unless you tweak them ala Joeswine) I've pretty much only made the highest end kits as I wanted the...

Updated. I once heard someone say. The best boat, is your friend's boat. This way you get the benefits and none of the cost and hassle!

Actually, I stopped maintaining that out of being lazy hah. I could probably delete half of what's there and add a lot that isn't. (not including my own wines) I keep telling myself I'm going to go update it, but time hasn't been on my side lately. I should have done it during my 4-day...

I'm offended! You're the pain in the you know what!

It's probably too late get the bottles there in time for this one. That said, when they say a split. They are talking about 375ml? Speaking off, I need to buy some more as I always bottle a couple for age tasting along the way.

Maybe I will join one of these when I at least have a red that has two years under it's belt. My first will hit two years in March, but in truth. I think that is my least favorite that I've made thus far.

Just to throw a wrench into this... :h 黑色的房子

Yes, a crock pot would definitely have more of an even heating than a plastic tub with a heating rod in it so that does make sense.

That's interesting and and very cool setup! Though I will say it wasn't the heating portion that I was thinking about for the duty cycle. Mine seems to have some type of propeller inside it as it basically stirs the water while it's going. Most likely for even distribution of water...

Wow, I wouldn't expect a sous vide device to support a 48 hour straight duty cycle! Though I suppose these devices are meant to function for at least a few years in the kitchen at 1-3 hours at a time or so. Maybe they can. Good luck!

I'm 44 with no "injuries" and I make six gallons at a time. The AIO is still the best investment I've made in this hobby that isn't "a consumable"!

I do not have any family up here, so it was just four of us. My GF, her daughter, and a buddy of mine that doesn't have any family here either. Total about $100 in food and about $75 in wines.

So, on Saturday night I did my first sous vide ribeye steak. Still learning the correct temperatures for the exact result in how I like my steak, but otherwise. I'm quite impressed with the results! My GF's torch immediately ran out of fuel and she didn't have any more, so I pan seared the...

Happy Thanksgiving to all. I will provide some help on how to prepare a turkey also. :)

Beautiful bottle and label Mike!

So far I've just used Google Sheets (Google's web version of Excel) to track my winemaking. I'm definitely open to other solutions, but so far. It has been necessary. (that might be due to not knowing of other nice features thought!)

I would try a mix of really hot water and oxiclean free and let it soak for a while.

The bottle is stained from sediment? I've never heard anything like that. That would suggest all my glass carboys would be stained since that is where my wine stays until all sediment has dropped. As for removing labels. I have a label remover / scraper, but I gave the entire process up and...