Recent content by mrx

any opinions on corks or screw tops for this batch ?

Getting ready to bottle every thing looks great!!

Thanks Yooper! I was hoping to hear from you. The bench test i wrote about cleared great... the geletan cleared the first batch but I was trying to get the last drop that i couldwhen I was racking it and sucked some of the lees up with the siphon tube... and it stayed suspended... treated...

Yooper Brew hope you read this... Well the above wine is now 3 years old, high alcohol... 18% by vinometer test. It never did clear, racked many times each time lees were left behind. I treated it with gelatin and it cleared perfectly! Now the problem... when racking i got some of the lees...

Sounds like that may be the best plan i have heard so far... I will have to wait til friday to start the process... I have fire training 4 nights this week... sounds like i have a full weekend ahead of me!

no... been back in the primary bucket for a week...but i havent stirred often... campden tabs ben over two weeks since they have been put in.

montrachet... after transfer sg was and still is 1.090 been a week today i added the new yeast there was a slight ring of foam after the transfer the next day then i stirred it and it never restarted.

here goes started batch blackberry wine the mountain way... berries water sugar lemon juice to prevent molding. primary ferment went well or so i thought transfered to secondary sg 1.090 made several mistakes from here on not counting not using yeast in the first place because i started...

that was a different mr x..lol ok... i see what you are gettin at.. i have no first reading so i have nothing to base the 13 % alcohol on the problem may be the campden tabs i may have to oxygenate the juice to get that out and more oxygen in???

first recipe times 5

THE WHOLEdthing is now i have tried to restart by adding all the ingredents except the sugar and it has not started foaming in the secondary fermentation... there in is the root of my questions! Thanks

I have searched the forums and did not find the answers i needed. I have made wine in the past but not the proper way. I have a 4.5 gal or so batch going and i have a few questions. I started the batch and seen how much it was... did not want to waste it and decided to invest in some...