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Ha ha ya that’s why I want to make both a ruby for early drinking and a tawny for ten years down the road. Since I’m using fresh grapes I was hopeful to make without adding sugar so I wanted to be more traditional and stop the fermentation with alcohol. Although I admit the type of alcohol...

What would be a good blend for port wines? Would it make a difference if I was making a ruby port vs getting a barrel and making a tawny? I might do both. I imagine there is a lot of right answers but I have no idea what might be a bad blend so hopefully someone has some experience with these...

Is there a difference between using whole white grapes and white juice pails? I’m thinking that since the grapes are pressed before fermentation it should be the same thing. Reason I ask is I can only get French Colombard, Muscat and Thompson seedless grapes. But I can get a wider variety of...

Good to know. So when one makes vinegar you have to aerate?

Maybe it’s becoming vinegar.

I almost got a glycol chiller thinking of this application. But the guy became unresponsive on Marketplace. I would expect that you are adding k-metabisulfite? I would imagine the chiller would cool it down overnight. Especially if the vessel is insulated or wrapped in a blanket. If your using...

Our grapes are not in yet. Possibly September 17th. TBD. These were last years. I got one batch from a guy who owns a wine store. They were in wood boxes and were labeled Pia. The others were in plastic and probably were Lodi. They were from a produce importer. I don’t have a picture of the...

It's been a while since I've been on here. I'd like to thank everyone for their help! It made this new adventure much easier and definitely made it better. I did see little bubbles during the MLF fermentation. I didn't do any testing but assume it finished. I finally got around to racking and...

I’m not sure I’d use that stuff on something porous. How about boiling water or steam? Actually if you open it pressure washing would work very well. But you probably need to thermally sterilize it if you don’t chemically.

With the spear sensor it’s $300 cad. Yikes. Glass bulb $122.

It has a glass tip. It can pierce most meats. Probably doesn’t take a big sample. Hanna HI 981036 Foodcare Meat pH Tester Kit

As the title says where can I get oak barrels in Canada? I’m most likely interested in 5-6 gallon sizes so they are not tiny but still manageable. Looking for a decent deal and hopefully made with properly seasoned wood not kiln dried furniture wood.

I’m looking at getting a pH probe with the piercing tip for making fermented sausages. I was wondering if these work for liquids such as wine? I just have a cheap tester for wine. Would be nice if it did both but I don’t want to spent hundreds. I can get a Hanna for $125. Has anyone used these...

You might be able to get away with adding some weight and zeroing the scale. Maybe a small dish could work. I just flat out don’t believe mine is capable of anything smaller than ten times it’s stated accuracy and that may be true for many cheap scales.

I have a scale that is supposed to read 0.1g accuracy but I don't trust it for that. I have a 100g +/-0.001g I got a few years ago for just over $100 CAD. I will say it was absolutely necessary when I wanted to weight out the EX-V enzyme as the 0.1g scale wouldn't weight that little.

I’ll try that. My eyes aren’t what they used to be either.

I got the MLF and nutrients in about 2 weeks ago. Absolutely no sign anything is happening. There is no bubbles or anything the plastic pieces in the airlocks have sunk. I have no way of testing so it is what it is. I’m going to add some oak cubes and leave for a few months. Is 2-3 oz the...

The Italian guy I got my grapes from said to press in the first week otherwise there would be too much tannins. But he also told me to leave more stems in. Probably more to the style he’s used to. I let it go dry as was told on this forum. Also had lots to do with my schedule too.

Ha ha sounds like it needs bacon, cheddar and sour cream.

Your generation years are not correct.