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Does anyone know if there is a distributor in the UK for the vac pump? Seems to be a bit of a gap in the market here...

A video of MLF, the first view is the Shiraz which is very active, the second is the Cab which is much slower

Allowed the wine to sit on the gross lees for 5 days (would have preferred shorter) whilst it completed primary fermentation. For the Cab FG was 0.994 and for the Shiraz FG of 0.991 - measured with a precision 0.9 - 1.0 hydrometer. Both pH and TA have increased following fermentation to around...

Thought I would post my progress for my first proper attempt at making wine from grapes. The first main issue for me at this stage is how difficult it has been sourcing 'serious' wine making supplies here in the UK, as you can't get half the stuff available to US home winemakers. so MLF...

I just took a small sample in a test tube and gave it a good shake for a couple of minutes and retested it, and TA had come down to 9g/L so that was definitely affecting it. What is the best way of completely degassing a small sample of wine for accurate testing - is it just shaking?

I have just pressed my Cab Sauv and Shiraz after 7 days on the skins - I am finishing off primary fermentation off the skins, mainly due to time and I was happy with the colour. I tested TA and pH following pressing and found I have both high TA and high pH, compared to what I started with...

Interesting, I wonder if that relates directly to the 1 brix lower reading I am seeing or if it is just coincidence? Either way it confirms it is perhaps not unusual to get a discrepancy between measuring methods. Yep, it was fine Yep, taken within 10 mins of each other, and from exactly the...

I have just been destemming and crushing my Cab Sauv and Shiraz grapes in the past couple of days. Ended up with 3 buckets of Cab must and 1 bucket of Shiraz must. I tested the sugar levels in all buckets initially with a refractometer and then the SG with a hydrometer. However, the equivalent...

Hi all, Not sure how many from the UK are on this forum, but I have been looking around here for some time now - although we have 'homebrew' forums in the UK I haven't found any with a heavy focus on making wine from grapes, probably for obvious reasons. I have tried making wine on and off...