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since starting my second wine kit. My first kit was and still is a hit with the family and friends and it tastes better with every new bottle we open. Since starting the second kit which is a Kenridge Showcase Pinot Grigio which fermenting happened so quickly, i've been kind of...

thanks for the replies guys the kit is a Kenridge Showcase Pinot Grigio. 12 days ago the s.g was 1.084 and now its at .994 and in the carboy for the first day and supposed to be in there for at least 14 days to finish out fermenting. i'll check to see if theres any change in the next two...

ok the instructions say if the s.g is at .995 that fermentation is complete, but this is just the 12th day! I guess i still have to go thru the whole process with the instructions right? Will the s.g still continue to go down further?

oh CPFAN thanks for clearing that up for me... whew i checked the S.G on the tenth day like the instructions said and it was supposed to be around the 1.020 mark and when i saw that it was way below that i panicked and glanced over at the alcohol scale on the hydrometer and it said 0% alcohol...

hi guys, its been a while since i've been here and i hope everyone is doing good and enjoying all there wine. My first kit wine was a very cheap kit of Cabernet Sauvignon and we are enjoying it very much and so is the rest of the family but now i have picked up my second kit which is a...

I have one of those wine bottle vacuum pumps, no gauge is attached. If this batch comes out good then maybe in the future i'll get some better tools

i tried again by shaking the carboy and it bubbled a little and i let it sit for a bit, then with the degassing tool and this time i couldn't get any sort of bubbles at all,maybe its all gassed out

so how does a beginner know when its been degassed if its still making bubbles when its agitated. If the fermentation lock is not resting on the stem doesn't it mean that theres still CO2 in the wine? I do see different size of bubbles like some of you mention and i see the same kinds of bubbles...

i'm degassing with a fizz x and a hand vacuum pump and also shaking the carboy. Its a cabernet sauvignon kit and it says to degass for 5 days and everytime i shake the carboy theres always gas and it says i shouldn't move to the clearing stage until all gas is gone

hey guys so i've been degassing my batch since tuesday and was wondering how long does it or can it take to degass a 6 gallon batch, its a batch of cabernet sauvignon

hi folks, well title says it all. Went out today and bought one of those hand held vacuum pumps to try it on my first batch, had it on there for a while pumping away , watching all the bubbles rushing to the top but wasn;t paying attention to the bung and lo and behold it was down in the neck...

hi gang, i was reading something about someone making a batch of solution with tap water and it didn't have a chemical smell to it. I made a gallon batch of the stuff and i didn't smell anything, is the solution not good for sanitizing then?

thanks for info Wade, theres another lesson learned and another in the logbook

i opened the gallon jug that i had it stored in and there was no trace of a chlorine smell at all, might as well make up what i need only

Wade- the instructions that came with this kit didn't even say anything about a starting SG, it only mentions to take an SG reading at day 17, and now that you mention about carboys not being accurate, the instructions that came with the kit said to fill the carboy and then empty the carboy...

hi again, okay the night i started my first batch, i made a gallon of diversol and cleaned everything with it and then used it to sanitize everything. Then i put it all back into the gallon jug i had and today i looked at the jar and there was things floating around it. How long does the...

cpfan- ya i think it was 7litres of concentrate, the instructions aren't that bad, but it says to rack on the 7th day then on day 17th to take an SG reading and if its where it should be then to add the sorbate and metabisulphate

it a 23L kit, and i think i mixed it properly. Would distilled water cause a bad reading? can i go back and stir it everyday or should i just let it go and see what happens?

hey gang, okay when i bought the equipment the guy at the store told me not to get a very expensive kit for the first batch so as not to get discouraged if it didn't turn out right so i thought that was kewl of him. So he gave me a kit called Wine Time Vineyards Elite, its a Cabernet Sauvignon...

thanks for the warm welcome gang, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy like after a few bottles of wine in me lol Green Mountains-i won't let the opportunity of learning wine making with grapes just slip thru my fingers, i come from a portuguese family where alot of things are made by tradition...