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I made labels for my beer, but used them only for a few batches and then left off. Too much trouble for so many bottles, which were used quickly. For the wine I have in progress, the larger bottles and potential for aging makes the labels more valuable.

My wife is better at this ... she says it smells like dusty, musty, dried prunes with a hint of really over-ripe fruit. I used to smoke cigarettes, so I cannot discern odors quite as well yet. Thank you for asking and helping with this.

My 1 gallon WE Moscato fermenter/airlock does not smell very good. Started on the 4th, I'm concerned that something is wrong. In 67 five-gallon batches of beer over six years I never had any infections nor losses due to lack of cleanliness. My 6 gallon Chile Cab kit started just yesterday...

I bought a bunch more stuff required, this time from my preferred store, The Bald Brewer in Longmont, CO. Another 1 gallon Carboy, two 6 gallon Carboys, another 6 gallon plastic bucket fermenter, Wine Thief, other accessories. And a 6 gallon WineXpert Kit for Chile Cabernet Sauvignon. Which I...

In a thread in Introductions several members gave me lots of good advice in getting started in Wine making. So I have started a 1 gallon kit of California Moscato. I will probably use a few of my re-purposed green glass beer bottles for this first batch, and other small batches of probly a Cab...

Well that seems also good advice. I used a hand-held capper for about 30 batches of beer, before it wore out. The benchtop capper I bought after that is rugged and adjustable ... I can use it to press corks into full-size wine bottles. I also still have a large number of crown caps for beer. The...

Many Thanks for the comments. I do plan on acquiring good Wine Bottles, eventually. And then I will probably also start brewing beer again, as well as making wine. But in the short term I want to reduce costs, and get this 1 gallon kit started & through to bottling rather quickly. Then I'll...

Greetings ... I have received my 1 gallon WineXpert kit for California Moscato. Excited to get started! I already have all of the equipment because I made 67 batches of a light Ale between 2012 and 2018. That was more than 3,300 bottles (re-purposed green Dos Equis and Moosehead bottles). Of...