Recent content by Verratti

I did an Amarone kit in I think it was november and didn't bother with the additives and degassing until yesterday. Just rack it off the sediments and add k-meta (or campden tablets). My kit turned out smelling AMAZING yesterday and now i'll just let it sit another 2 weeks before racking and...

Sorry IPad gives me trouble

Here is my pumpkin wine freshly bottled. :ban:

Stabilizing degassing then back sweetning gets this solved.

Absolutly love the cave! good job!!

Hibiscus wine is in my plans for 2015. I usually make juice with it and find that it really needs other fruits to taste descent. how does hibiscus wine taste? do you find it lacks something, you do you find it stands well on its own?

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if you make a 5 or 6 gallon batch, don't wast it by adding bread yeast.

well for bread yeast, you could use it and have an ok result but best results comes from better ingredients. After all wine yeast is like a dollar. For the juice, best to use 100% from concentrate and not the fructose type. Big difference trust me. There are some people that does it with frozen...

So you toke S.G days after you pitched ? Your gravity Will go don very fast the frits week.

Ok got it done. Smells amazing. id show you guys a picture, but the white Stuff didnt fall with the juice And the the juice just teinted the stuff. Overall, I did as normal with a kit, addenda k-meta and will add the yeast tomorrow. Thanx to everyone. Will post back hopefuly with Good news!

well it chewed the bag just enough cause personally, the bag doesn't look bad at all. theres no trace of any urine or defecation on the bag.

As I was cleaning a carboy, I was wondering after I add the K-meta since I'll add more then suggested, how long do I wait before pitching ?

Ok well I guess I have nothing to lose. I have something in my primary, but i'll toss it into secondary to start trying to save the Amarone. Hope it works or else this will be 150$ plus all the effort for nothing :( Thanks Yooper, so far you have been more helpful to me then Jack Keller (and...

I have a problem this morning. I have a kit of Amarone from En primeur in my basement and a mice chewed on the raisin bag. That isn't much of a deal but that was almost a week ago. What I haven't noticed is, it chewed on the bag of juice just enough for it to get contaminated. I see white stuff...