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Really, really small chickens............

What brand of concentrates are you using, Scooter? As for the trees - I put an owl decoy on a pole and put that in the middle of the cherry tree. It has a head that rotates in the wind. doesn't keep ALL the robins away - but enough that I got 20+# off 1 semi-dwarf tree.

Leave it - you're fine. Time to ferment is variable & can go quickly sometimes. If it hit1.000 and you have it under airlock in the secondary, then you're right on track. Let it sit until you have a substantial accumulation of lees on the bottom - 10 days - 2 or 3 weeks, then rack again.

If you are ACTUALLY using bleach to sanitize your hands - I would stop that. I wash my hands and forearms with soap and water, then spray them with a squirt bottle of pre-mixed sanitizer - I use StarSan. Some use a pot. metabisulfite solution. The Campden tablets give off SO2 gas which is...

Re: - pectonaise (or pectic enzyme) - I don't believe it's really needed for flower based wines. However - since you added sultanas (dried white raisins) and since it doesn't add any flavor on it's own - I would add a 1/2t pectic enzyme powder (+/-) per gal to the must. Like drinking chicken...

Uh - maybe not NEXT time you rack. Sugar will bring back some of the taste - but it's not going to taste like fresh rhubarb. Same as apples off the tree don't taste like apple wine. It's now something else and will taste like something else. You will need to rack it a couple more times -...

LOL Found the thread. Keep us posted on the progress of the Super Spice Ginger wine - it looks promising.

First - my sympathy goes out to you. To be trapped in the winter with 2 Scottish females - a frightening proposition to be sure. I hope the visit will be brief and pleasant. Haggis? One of those foods that the mere description of it's contents makes you get up from the table. This sounds...

No............ no it's not normal. If it starts talking back - get back on your meds. LOL At this point - they actually ARE alive. God bless the little yeasties.

@Shayne Edwards = this ones for your no doubt lovely ginger missus ........ and possibly a warning for you. And I have LOTS of freckles..............

BTW - loved the "ranga" link - good stuff. I'll pass it on to my girls, too.

It's better to be lucky than good, they say. Nasturtium wine sounds interesting - they are one of the tastier edible flowers. The Super Spicy Ginger wine looks very clear for the 2nd racking and it's good that you don't need to back sweeten. Nice color (colour), too! So now you have your...

"If it doesn't move - ferment it." I believe Jack Keller said that. I still have to get my beet wine, melon wine, chamomile wine & cucumber wine going. Trying to save up enough goji berries (a.k.a. - Wolfberries) to make a straight Goji wine. Someone said tomato wine was excellent - might...

Hmmmm Wise you all are. Much has she learned.

I've never been known to turn down a gift - that would be rude...........and against every fiber of my Scottish being. Do you have floor corker you are giving me? LOL That "whole customized system" (a most generous description, I might add) took all of a few minutes and a few dollars to...

Yep - the only thing I didn't have was the hole saws, but you could use a saber saw instead.

No - just let it be. It'll be fine.

It would take a little while for the 3G to fill the empty space with CO2 and push out all the O2. In this very early stage, it would have been OK for the next couple weeks. Other opinions may very. I typically don't add water to top up - I top up with a similar wine or if I have to - I use...

But I also discovered that I have some "fat bottom" 1.5L that don't fit in the 4" pipe and I like to put up some wine in the small 375ml "gift" bottles. So I made a 2nd jig. I used a cedar 2X6, cut the holes with a hole saw - 4 1/4 ", 4", 3 1/4" and 2 5/8". This will hold every different size...

I mentioned in a different thread that I had made a jig for holding the bottles while I cork them. I have a double handle corker that does require some push to seat the cork and my wife is seldom around when I could use a bottle holder. First I made a simple jig using some 4" plastic pipe and...