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On the packages of superkleer I have it says to wait 1 hour before adding the second part.

That's what I do. When your just going to check the SG, or give your must a quick stir I have a spray bottle with K-meta in it. I spray the equipment, wait for a few seconds, and shake off the excess. I keep the solution for a month or so. I figure if it still stinks it must be working.:)

Thanks for the info. I'll add the oak and keep trying it like you said.

Yes that is the kit. Here is what it says on the pail. "Varietal and/or generic grape juice, varietal and/or grape juice concentrate. May contain liquid invert sugar. Selected wine yeast, tartaric acid, citric acid, tannin, ammonium phosphate (yeast nutrient). May contain: potassium sorbate...

Do some kits have liquid oak in them? I just read on the sice of the bucket "may contain oak" . It's a generic bucket that is used for all they're wines, so I don't know if they mean oak cubes may be with the kit or liquid oak is in it. Is there any way to tell for sure?

I never even thought of adding oak during fermentation. I'm not a huge oak fan but I wanted to try something different, besides with putting it in myself I can just leave it in for a week or two and just have it lightly oaked. Thank you all for your responses.

I have a Reserve Du Chateau 6 Week Wine Kit, California Coastal Cabernet Sauvignon that I got from Amazon. The kit is full juice (no concentrate), comes with corks, shrink caps and labels but it doesn't come with oak. Up until now I've only made whites, fruit wines and island mist kits. This is...

So by "from concentrate" do you mean the 1 litre bags of juice concentrate or a kit that is concentrated? Did you degas the wine after you stabalized it in the begining? If you didn't degas it it could be that the co2 is keeping it hazey by suspending particles.

Boozehag, that lime wine sounds very interesting. Care to share your recipe?

Wade, do you think that you still get bottle shock if you use screw caps? Is it the compression of air in the bottle that gives it shock or just from the wine being transfered that shocks it? I usually use about 3 or 4 bottles with screw caps 'cause I have a hard time waiting a month or so. :dg

Wow, this is a bigger hit than I thought it would be. Here is a schematic of the machine, and a close up of the part that locks the sliding chrome piece at the right height. The parts I bought are on this page. http://www.stpats.com/PartsTenco.htm Here is a better schematic of the...

I think this is what he was trying to post.

The arm is forgiving somewhat but I fill anything from 375 ml. to 1.5 Liter bottles so I have 4 different height adjustment on it. If you look closely you can see 2 holes on the back chrome part. There are 2 more under those. The black knob has a pin that goes through the hole and a spring to...

The nozzle has a built in shutoff sort of. It will only fill to a certain level then it sucks any foam or remaining liquid into the overflow. It is adjustable. Check out the video of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8algqVQhWY

Copy away Brian. If you need any help with any of the specifics let me know. I pretty much made it up out of scrap pieces that I had available to me.

I wanted to have an automatic bottle filler but I didn't want to shell out $375.00 for one. So I decided to make my own. Since I already had a vacuum pump all I needed was the nozzle. I got the nozzle, lever and spring for around $75.00. Making the stand to hold it took a little creativity and...

I'm really looking forward to your pictures and hopefully detailed instructions. I'm curios though, did you buy the complete nozzle for the enolmatic and fabricate the rest, or did you fabricate the nozzle too?:br