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Thanks for your reply. As I’m new to wine making, can someone say whether it’s ok to have mild sulphur smells towards the end of fermentation (day 14). Will the addition of sulfites/sorbate and degassing expel the Sulfur smells? Also does anyone use the fastferment on here for wine? Is it ok to...

Hi all. I’m now onto my third lot of wine. The first was a disaster (CC Merlot), the second was a 6 bottle CC Pinot Grigio (this was great). I’m now onto a 30 bottle Kenridge Classic Trilogy. It’s at about day 10 so it says to wait till day 14 before stabilising and then clearing. I’ve just...

Hi there. I’ve just started a red wine following your instructions. It says to add 1/4 tsp of nutrient on day 10? Is this to ensure proper fermentation? I have some tronozymol wine yeast nutrient which says to add a tsp per gallon. Do I add 5 teaspoons as I have 5 gallons of wine or just a small...

Cheers mate!

Thanks a lot. I was just seeing if it would be ok to fill the collection bottle with wine/beer from the sampling port on the FF (rather than co2 or distilled water). Only because I don’t have a method to introduce co2 right now.

Hello all. I’m fairly new to home brewing but since lockdown I’ve done 30 bottles of CC Merlot (This didn’t go too well), 6 bottles of CC Pinot Grigio (Very very pleased). I’ve also done 80 pints of festival Razorback IPA (Great beer) and just kegged 40 pints of Festival Golden stag. I bought a...