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No tips on this one. You are all on your own. We shall see how you do. You are each and every one good wine makers. 
WMT (Unofficial) Strawberry Coastal White Wine Competition
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No tips on this one. You are all on your own. We shall see how you do. You are each and every one good wine makers.
JUST NOT AS GOOD AS ME
there ya go Dave i took care of that one for ya
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Look at the top of your carboy in the pic and you can already see how settling is making it darker at the neck. Once the yeast and lees settle out (or you force them down with a clearing agent) it will darken quite a bit over what you have there. The pix I posted were just settling action, no clearing agents.
If it's still not dark enough after that, you can open an artery and add some color.
UNDER EDIT: So we got 10 people in this and just 3 have posted a pic? What's up with that? C'mon slackers...
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Thanks for all the help guys - I see how this is going to go now - every man (and women) for themselves. Kind of off topic but I thought I'd throw in a pic of the two coastal reds I had to bottle to open up a free carboy for the strawberry. These we're also BOGO and I made them into a dry and sweet version.
I'm with jim, where are all the progress pictures??
Mike
I'm with jim, where are all the progress pictures??
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Try the frozen foods case. The most dead-ripe berries out of the fields are frozen immediately.
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Great pictures, I haven't got my film developed yet.
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that was strange i could see them on my end but now they went to pic has been moved so i posted the link to get to my library also see below, about the first 11 pics are of this wine
http://s238.photobucket.com/user/Dend78/library/Wine
http://s238.photobucket.com/user/Dend78/library/Wine
Looking good, I can see why the wife didn't see the humor in the little bit 'o spillage. What yeast did you use, my ferment looked real calm compared to yours.
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Dend, maybe all the sugar, I held back and froze 1/2 gal of the kit concentrate in the beginning and once I added the strawberries and other goodies I had to adjust to get the SG down to 1.082. I do have about 1/2 gal over for topping off with though.
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Here's mine, quiet and clearing nicely next to it's "friends". It's the PINK one, in case you couldn't tell. It's going to be lovely, I think.
A month to clear, and we'll see how she taste!
A month to clear, and we'll see how she taste!
Dave, is that another straight coastal next to your strawberry, I was expecting the coastal to be lighter colored than it seems to be coming along. Mine (next to my strawberry) is at one month aging and kind of straw colored.
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