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    What happens when grapes on the vine hit freezing?

    Our Seyval Blanc crop was demolished by birds this year. We're new to all of this, and they caught us off guard. We were ready to write that block off for the year. However, there are a lot of secondary clusters that have been maturing over the last month or so. Most are up around 18 brix...
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    First Batch of Wine...at scale-ish - and a few questions

    We took over this vineyard earlier this year, and have been learning everything we can as fast as we can. The local winery we thought was going to buy our La Crescent ended up having too much already. And while we found some other buyers, we were going to lose money on the deal getting the...
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    Beer Fermenters?

    I'm curious whether there's any reason not to use conical jacketed beer fermenters for white wines. They wouldn't be practical for wines on skins. But for just fermenting white juice, it seems like they might be a good option, no? As long as there's an access port of some kind on top?
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    Multiple additions?

    Hi, everyone. Brand new member...recent vineyard owner/manager...experienced with brewing, but new to winemaking. As a newbie, I don't mind asking stupid questions, and I have a couple such questions. But they are unrelated, so I will ask them in two separate threads. Here's the first...
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    New From Iowa

    Hey, folks. New to Iowa, new to vineyards, and new to winemaking. At the beginning of the year, we purchased a property outside of Des Moines that has six acres of wine vineyards. Our original goal was to open a very small destination brewery and experiment with beer-wine hybrids. We'd be...
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