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Getting old labels off the bottles and getting them washed up! Any suggestions for printing your own labels? I'm getting excited!

Thank you so much for all the advice!

I was just thinking about that. Wondering if I could rack to my 5 gallon buckets, add my sulfites, etc. and backsweeten, then wait a week or so and then bottle...

Wow! Thank you!! I think I need more bottles!

Thank you! I have no idea how many bottles nine gallons of wine will take..lol. I've been gathering up used bottles from a friend. I doubt the wine will last long if it's any good at all.. I plan to gift it to anyone willing to try it..lol.

Ok, great, thank you! I have a floor corker. Any certain brand of corks better than others?

"Imagine each bottles headspace so for those 1 gallon carboys, the total volume of the headspace in the 5 bottles..." As you said above, how much head space do I leave in the bottles? And how do I know what size corks to get?

Great, thank you! Merry Christmas!

Yes, I have added the sulfites each time I have racked. Thank you for the advice. So, I should rack, add sulfites and do my back sweetening now? If so, how long do I wait to bottle?

Yes, I definitely don't want that to happen! Thanks!

I have a total of 9 gallons at the moment. A 6 gallon carboy and 3 one gallon jugs. What do you mean by stabilizing? This is my first time, so I am going to be reading and researching what comes next..lol.

My blackberry wine has been aging for about a year now! I have to rack while I am off for the holidays. I have been collecting wine bottles and will need to pick up some corks eventually. I'm in no hurry, but am very excited to reach the bottling process and giving as gifts, hopefully next...

So how will I know when it is time to backsweeten and bottle? I want to give it the best amount of time to be as good as I can get it.

Great, thank you!

Hello everyone! Been a while since I posted. I racked my blackberry wine a couple days ago and added the k-meta. Looking good! The waiting is hard...lol! Do the airlocks need to level out before I consider bottling, once I get to that point, of course? Will rack again at the beginning of...

Just racked both my batches. First 2 gallons on the right are 3 months old. Second larger batch on the left is about 3 weeks old.

Did a taste test... still quite tart, but I will back sweeten closer to bottling. I want more of a table wine. SG is at 1.000.

Awesome thank you!

They are exactly the same... blackberry wine....one is just newer and I didn't know if that would hurt it for any reason.

Ok! Back again! I am racking my first batch of 2 gallons from December. I am sure I won't have enough to fill to the 1 inch headspace. My question is...can I use some of the wine from my second batch, started 3 weeks ago, to fill it to the required amount in my demijohns? I know I need to add...