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LATEST ACTIVITY

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-20-2013 at 08:37 PM
  Ok back to the cab with what I thought was having some problems with. After 10 days in the
  carboy and not seeing any activity and the sg. staying exactly the same I starting to wonder if
  something is ...

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-17-2013 at 03:29 PM
  Didn't seem to be any issues and I believe it degassed after doing this for a couple hours as a
  balloon I placed over the top eventually stopped inflating. Todays work will be making a trolly
  for movi...

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-16-2013 at 03:41 PM
  So it's time to add some stuff to the Riesling and degas it. I had a broken spoon and some zap
  straps and figured I would enlarge the hole in the end and put 2 straps through for degassing
  and I think...

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-16-2013 at 02:58 PM
  Will do. My dad has a couple kits he did in the past and whenever I make it home each year I
  always snag a few. Got one in my wine rack right now that he bottled in Jan 09. It's absolutely
  amazing alo...

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-16-2013 at 03:13 AM
  Ahhh now the barolo is overflowing out the bucket. Cleaned it up and removed the heat belt. Is
  there anything I should do or just leave it be?

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-15-2013 at 06:24 PM
  Ok thats good to hear. I just haven't seen any activity or a bubble on the wine so I was a
  little nervous. If it continues this way I can assume degassing will be a breeze or am I
  wrong?Thanks again e...

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-15-2013 at 03:07 PM
  Not sure if I messed up the cab at this point. It is sitting in the carboy in the secondary
  fermentation stage for the past 5 days and nothing is going on. The same as if it was water in
  there. To giv...

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-09-2013 at 06:55 PM
  Yeah all of the aboveDefinitely one of the best hobbies I've had so far. Should get better in a
  couple months when I get to enjoy the later part of it

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-04-2013 at 08:06 PM
  So checked the sg and it was 1.000 so I transferred it over to the carboy and it is smelling
  great. A couple more days and the red should be ready to get transferred over and I might grab
  another kit ...

• Posted in thread: New to the hobby on 03-02-2013 at 06:32 PM
  Your telling me. One thing I'm going to look into doing is carbonating a white and having it on
  tap for the summer months