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I'm talking about the hydrogen peroxide... in other words, the "oxygen cleaning/bleaching" part of the chemical reaction. Eventually all that hydrogen peroxide gets used up. A lot of factors affect this: temperature (many people clean with warm/hot water solutions), pH and dissolved metals in...

PBW, B-Brite, One-Step Cleaner are all basically OxyClean (sodium percarbonate) plus some additional cleaning agents. When you add sodium percarbonate to water, it breaks down into hydrogen peroxide and sodium carbonate (aka "soda ash", "washing soda"). The hydrogen peroxide quickly breaks down...

I feel you. I recently lost my vineyard... the vines I had slaved over for years. Due to losing the house/property they were one. The sense of loss is crushing. I just recently rekindled some kit winemaking, but it's not the same... because kit winemaking was never meant to be anything more...

I've been wondering if the "kit wine taste" comes from the sorbate packet, but this wouldn't be exclusive to the high-end kits with skins.

Me chatting online w/ my dad a few moments ago... Me: "I often see people say that winemaking is a "chemistry set for adults" Dad: "same with beer" "in fact, there are some 'beer making courses' that include chemistry as a topic" Me: "except with beer you're working with explosives." (side...

Nope. Bought it in 2020 as a special-order from my "local" store. $179. Has been stored in cool basements ever since. The other one I got at the same time was LE19 Pacific Quartet Red, still needs to be made.

The one I just bottled was RJS En Primeur Italian Rosso Grande Eccelente. The one I just started was Winexpert LE19 Cape Blend.

I'm still a newbie... after a long hiatus, I finally bottled my first (kit) wine. I did the math and it basically came to $10/bottle. But that includes $2.50 value of the bottle itself... if I can re-use the bottle, then the consumables (wine, ingredients, cork, capsule) costed me $7.50. What's...

Any updates on this saga?

Well, I know that... but that doesn't dictate whether the other companies have or haven't blended yeast nutrients in with the juice. I know they tweak acids.

I switched to doing a combo of flushing with argon then pulling a vacuum, and subsequently stopped worrying about headspace.

Malbec makes me think of my ex, so it's sort of blacklisted for me. :confused:

Is this known to be true? It's the first I've heard of it. Is this simply the norm for all the big kit makers?

Sorry, pet peeve of mine! Beg The Question // Get it right. Begging the Question: How to Use It Correctly

If there's still an active ferment going on, and we used the starting SG to do the calculations of how much sugar to add to get to a desired ABV, does it effectively matter when the sugar is added? Could one not still add the necessary sugar halfway through and still obtain the desired end...

Really hope you offer this again... I missed it because I was still "out of commission" per se otherwise I would've been all over it. From what I've read re: FWK they will be all I purchase going forward.

Did you miss the part where I said that I was a convert to FWK and that that's all I'd be buying in the future? ;) I did not say or mean to suggest that they were "second rate". My point was, if the supplier was a 3rd-party, for how long does FWK hold a monopoly on this new level of kit quality?

Whew. Just made it through all 102 pages. I've been sort of "out of commission" for a long time and I'm trying to get back into wine-making as a form of therapy and self-care. I discovered Finer Wine Kits on Label Peelers while poking around there for another reason, decided to do some research...

Hey, all. Quick question: I have a kit I recently started (9/3). I prepped the yeast with Go-Ferm Protect before adding. It took about 2 days for the fermentation to really pick up (maybe old yeast) but it's going strong now. I also wanted to use Fermaid-O but I misundertood what "lag phase"...

Hello, friends. Haven't posted here in a long while due to some personal emergencies, life changes and basically my life being totally up-ended. Not in a good way. While my passion for wine hasn't been lost, many significant things have. Forced to sell my home, I lost the 40+ vine vineyard I...