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I'm asking this because I didn't want to add the sorbate if I had already added the potassium meta in case i wasn't suppose to. So then I will add the sorbate when I get home today. I may have to start marking my plain white bottles with colored markers.

Yesterday I was degassing my wine and I grabbed what I thought to be the sorbate, put it down and then promptly forgot and grabbed the potassium meta. Will this hurt the wine? I was planning on bottling on Tuesday. WSG

Soylent Brown What if we were using red potatoes? or yellow? i love the label. I was looking at it in my office and everyone was crowding around trying to figure out what it was for. I was cool by association for all of 2 minutes. WSG

Congrats! I know we will be in good, capable hands. Thanks again for all your advice. Now get to work! WSG

Iron Range I have a friend who is from Grand Rapids, MN which is up on the iron range and I'm making it for her. So it's really not as interesting as you might think. I have no idea where Mesabi is, but I'm not from MN so I'm not familiar with 96% of the state. WSG

Feet...uhm no. I promised my friends I would only use my hands and they promised they would try the finished product.:) WSG

Thank you, Luc. I had been going through all of the books I have at home, and I remembered seeing something about freezing for fruit, and I didn't want to take a chance that if I didn't freeze the grapes that I would have missed a step. This will be the first wine from actual fruit, not...

Ok so I stumbled upon a deal and bout 9lbs of black and red grapes. I've read that you're suppose to freeze them and in my excitement and haste I dashed home and threw the bags into the freezer, without washing the grapes first. My question is whether or not I should try washing them after I...

racked a 2nd time off the lees and it tastes BAD. Well thin and alcoholic. I racked it off the lees transferred it to another carboy with marbles and tasted it and it tasted almost watery but with an alcoholic flavor. It's still clearing, and I haven't stabilized it yet, should I add anything...

I would say that all of the above suggestions are great. This forum is a great source of information, though making sure that any questions you have haven't already been addressed by searching is definitely a good step first step :D Midwest is a great place to go after doing some internet...

Besides the obvious naming by ingredients, I was wondering how folks decide to give names to their wines. Since I just started making wine I haven't had the chance to name many but I've noticed a trend. I tend to name my wine based on the situations that surround when I start making them. So...

I use a cleaner and then I use a sanitizer like starsan. I haven't had problems but I think it's mostly what folks are used to using and what works best for what they are doing. I've been trynig different solutions to figure out what works best for my habits. I haven't tried K-meta as a...

Glad to know that I'm not alone in my feeling of loss when I have so many batches going. Unfortunately, I just had a friend stop by Midwest on his way to work and pick up more carboys, and a couple fermenters and chemicals. He didn't try to stop me, he even had the gall to ask me if I he should...

I was wondering the same thing and was planning on using synthetic for my meads. WSG

E C Krause So I was looking at the website for another company ECKraus and I noticed a serious difference in cost. For example, a case of bottles, claret 750ml from this place is like 31.00 and from midwest it's 11. That's a serious difference. Granted folks might not have a store in their...

Thanks for the link Wade. Man, if i ship my wine in those it'll look so, so, commercial. I figure I'll be sending them back to myself empty or not.:p I'm feeling less nervous but I won't be completely relieved until I have successfully gotten these bottles home and opened with friends.

I don't want to go to jail for a few lousy bottles of iffy wine!:D I have two boxes with styrofoam inserts that my wine shipments came in. So I'm going to use those and pack it a little more with bubble wrap I've saved. I feel like a bootlegger. WSG