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I've heard that the beads tend to crack or break and that marbles are a better alternative. http://www.rainbowturtle.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=1820

I'm just the messenger: Recent research has found that food and drinks that have been aged, such as dry aged meats and red wines, can cause our body to release histamines and create these allergy-type symptoms. To prevent a histamine headache, simply take a histamine blocker such as Claritin...

I may be wrong but if you added sorbate, I don't see why there would be any problem.

Not sure where you live but you can get a lot of things on Amazon. Sparkalloid:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0064GZQ6M/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Sorbate: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006O93LRK/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 K-Meta: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0064O9FN4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20...

First, welcome to JandE! Second, can you share that recipe for the Vintner's Harvest Black Currant wine that turned out well?

Yes, I added the zest from half a grapefruit in the primary on about the third day (allowed to ferment to dryness over 8 days). I put the zest in a sanitized coffee filter and then bunched it up with a rubber band (also sanitized) and suspended it with a sanitized cotton string tied to the...

I'm loving my Fontana Chardonnay with Joe's tweaks. I've added a small amt of oak -- 1/8 cup -- in the carboy as it bull ages.

Also free shipping on Walmart.com at $38.95 though their shipping takes several days longer. Good backup if Amazon is out of your preferred varietal.

Walking along the beach, a man finds a bottle. He rubs it and instantly, a genie appears. “I’ll grant you three wishes,” the genie says. “There’s just one condition. I’m a lawyer’s genie, so for every wish you make, every lawyer in the world gets the same thing, only double.” After...

A couple of dog owners are arguing about whose pet is smarter. “My dog is so smart,” says the first owner, “that every morning he waits for the paperboy to come around. He tips the kid and then brings the newspaper to me, along with my morning coffee.” “I know,” says the second dog owner...

Agree with Scooter68. I used water ... once. The wine was thin and not worth drinking. My wife called it "one dimensional." As far as sulfites, I add 1/4 tsp per 5-6 gallons of wine every three months when racking.

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Just playing around with it ...

Thanks Joe! My experience with this yeast (Pasteur Red now called Premier Rouge by Red Star) has been that it foams a lot. This is a 5 gallon batch in a 7.9 gallon bucket. The last time I used it was on a Cabernet in a 6.5 gallon fermentation bucket and it would've overflowed with foam had...

Almost 2 months later ... racked twice, cleared with Chitosan and Kieselsol, plan to bulk age another couple of months and pop a cork around Thanksgiving.

12 hours later ... [emoji3]

Here's a guy that did a side by side comparison for an inexpensive Fontana kit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPERCmVgPOQ

Started a Fontana Malbec today that I bought from Walmart for only $38.95 with FREE shipping. Hard to beat that price. There are quite a few on Amazon at the same price but Amazon has a LOT more varietals and flavors (Nebbiolo for example). Many thanks to @Joeswine for the inspiration...

AND you can buy the kits to do it on Amazon ... !

And yet, I can watch 10,000 hours of how to do it -- in detail -- on YouTube produced by USA youtubers. :a1