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I've never made a one gallon batch of wine. I've been using 6 gallon carboys and I've recently bought 4 one gallon jugs to try out some recipe's before committing to 6 gallons. Anyway, I've been reading through a lot of Jack keller's recipe's and I've noticed that a lot of them say to...

I'm still new to winemaking and have been reading everything on here that I possibly can to learn as much as possible. I'm getting the hang of it but I ran into a problem with this wine kit. It's a Vintners Reserve Pinot Noir. I started at 1.096 and I'm down to .994 which is below the...

I started a kit of Vintner's Reserve Pinot Noir last Friday and it says to take a reading after 5-7 days and rack it to the carboy when it reached 1.010. My problem is, I had something come up that forced me out of town until this Sunday which will be day #9 of it being in my primary bucket...

Quick question. Do you guys sanitize the area that you brew on? I generally work on a wooden kitchen table and I was wondering if I could spray the whole table down and wipe it up before I put my hydrometer, spoon, etc on it. Would this keep everything pretty well sanitized? Would this ruin the...

I'm almost 3 weeks into my Apfelwein fermentation and it's beginning to clear. I'm going to leave it until the 6 week mark but it's time I start thinking about bottling. I plan on bottling 3 gallons still and then carbing the remaining 2 gallons and capping it in beer bottles. It's my first...