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Malolactic fermentation should still prodice CO2 so there should be tiny bubbles in the wine and the airlock should bubble...

I will be adding tannins and aging on 5 year opened season American Oak. Hoping for a nice rich tannic wine. I am using Clos wine yeast which is good up to 17%.

Pressed my Cab sauv. batch 5 days ago. Did a tranfer off gross lees 2 days later and added Opti-malo nutrients and pitched some enoferm Beta Malo into each carboy. Been watching the airlocks and not seeing any activitiy. Is this normal? How long does it nomally take for Enoferm Beta to take...

I got a text from a vineyard in San Diego on Friday that some Syrah was ready to harvest the bext day. Went out yesterday and picked 320lbs. $.50/ lbs which is a great price! Couldn't rent a destemmer/Crusher so used the milk crate method to destem and crush. Fruti is awesome! Brix 25.4...

That's one Varietal I am excited to try to mae wine with. Those look great!

I just got done picking my grapes and they are fantastic! 25 brix with a PH of 3.4. The vineyard loves home wine makers. $.50 a pounnd and they are top quality. Call Chris at (619) 733-9020 to arange to get some if you want them. He is in the Ramona Area in San Diego.

If you are talking about the Finer wine kits.. Those are the winery series kits. They make 61.6 liters of wine which is over 15 gallons.

No. But it was set up properly.

I drained out 6 gallons of free run wine and the inserted the piston with the pump and it drew out more wine until it started pulling air out into the Carboy. It was about 9 gallons and the must was still really wet. I then scooped the must into a bladder press and got about 13 gallons total.

Ah. I have used Lallzyme EX on the last batch so maybe that is the issue. I have the all in one wine pump as well.

Yes. I am using the pump that cane with it. I didnt look to see the pressure. I dis drain 6 gallons out of the fermenter free run before running the piston. Maybe that was too much as when I seated the piston it was on the grape cap and not liquid. I had 20 gallons of must (,4 5 gallon...

I had the pressure plate with the metal tabs pointing up towards the false bottom. When I cleaned it up the false bottom was covered in seeds and there was a pool of wine still in the bottom. The piston did move down and was flush against the grape bed. But it was pumping air into the wine...

After using the Press piston, I scooped the pumace out of the Wineasy and put it in a bladder press and got 4 more gallons from it. So what your saying is that it's normal and I should just leave it uder pressure for longer snd it will extraxt the additkonal juice?

I have a cab sauv in a 30 gallon Blichmann wineeasy and it's ready for pressing. I am going to use the piston press. Last time I used it the pomace was still pretty wet after pressing. Is there a tip for getting more from the pressing with the piston or should I just put the wet pomace in my...

Ok. Then probably be best to see what happens after Malolactic Fermentation then if necessary do a cold stabilization to get some of the Tartaric Acid to drop out.

Just checked on my Cab Sauv after primary fermentation. Going to press tomorrow. The PH was 3.48 and the TA was 9.3. should I not worry about TA until after Malolactic Fermentation? Would that 9.3 drop below the 8.0 range after Malolactic fermentation?

This weekend I got mote Sangiovese grapes than I can ferment in my stainless wineeasy fermenter. I was able to get a 55 gallon blue barrel which is food grade (Peanut Butter was shipped in it originally). Its been thoroughly cleaned, soaked in PBE and is ready to go. The question I have is...

Its really good for getting more tannins for the kit wine juice and can help to make the kit wine a lot better. Especially if you use a good ratio of Skin to juice..

I am going to take the pomace from my Cab Sauv batch I am doing now from fresh grapes and use them with the regular FWK fuerte kit. I'll do the same with the upcoming sangiovese and Syrah batches and see how it turns out. I already have the cab sauv, Syrah and super tuscan kits here waiting...