Recent content by Shoot-Straight

Thank you and will do- The float in the topper is bottomed out......?

Job had me away for 5 months! ( Not doing that again lol ) I asked a family member to help me out with a few basic things around my house. I have a friend that cleans so she kept an eye on the important stuff and called someone when to plow snow or cut lawn etc etc. My family member was...

Forget Yooper! I read on another post while searching that you don't like Sorbates- ;)

Yooper, do you use Pot Sorbate with Pot Meta before bottling?? ( Stabilize ) Thx

From Jack Kellers website: Many of the recipes call for using one or more crushed Campden tablets while others do not. Some recipes call for the use of potassium metabisulfite instead. So why is this? Indeed, all recipes should use potassium metabisulfite (or Campden), but some authors list it...

Like your thought process! Hope someone more qualified can chime in. I would tell you this ( and someone can correct my thinking as well ) when you add one when racking to secondary it will do two things, help remove free oxygen and kill the yeast. Killing the yeast could make the wine more...

Recipe for 5 gallons of Strawberry wine so far: 22lbs clean stemmed strawberries- ( weight after stemmed ) 1/4 tsp K-meta ( in place of Sodium Bisulfite ) 5 - 1/4 tsp Pectic Enzyme Throw in bucket add 1/2 a gallon of water. Cover and sit 24 hours. Add water to Liqueur to make 5 gallons...

Will this wine be dry or a table wine?

I'm on the outside of Ashippun LOL I know that doesn't help anyone- South of Oconomowoc NW of Hartford! I have one kit of Pinot that should be ready to bottle in a few days. Followed those instructions to a "T". Have another kit of Merlot going thats ready for it's first racking. That batch...

Newbie, just started making some wine!!