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To get a good solid full gallon of finished wine I throw about 6-8 lbs of stemmed&pitted frozen bings into a 2 gallon pail. Then I boil up about 6 pints of water, dissolve a 4 lb bag of sugar into it while on the heat. Dump over frozen cherries. Stir it up, add enzyme, nutrient, kmeta. Pitch...

You want fruit wine at 10-15%. 12% is a good target. (To be foodsafe) Ferment completely dry and clear, then back sweeten. I make simple syrup in 10lb batches of sugar. Using about a gallon of water and 1/4 teaspoon of kmeta. (It will be diluted as I back sweeten.) Then the trick is to add it...

Campden tabs are a PIA, buy a pound of potassium metabisulphate (kmeta). 1/4 teaspoon per 5 gallons of must. I use about 2 tablespoons per 5 gallons to 'sterilize' my gear. The romans had slaves literally 'stomp' the grapes. They just used volcanic ash instead of kmeta. I bet your must will be...

Being that I live in Maine, I don't mess with grape wines much. My preferred wines are 5 gallon batches of black cherry or strawberry. I primary on the fruit for three to seven days in a bucket, splash rack into corny kegs and use a gas connect with a few inches of hose with an airlock on the...

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Nice post and thanks for the headsup on the connectors, I was going to use nips. This type of filtering is quite a craze in my area. My LBS sells plate rigs for $90 or a housing like this for $35. It's obvious that the homebrew industry is gouging the way plate filter prices. Off to big...