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For those of you who have been making a good quality wine in your kits, what particular brand do you recommend. I'm looking at purchasing one which consists of a 7.8 gallon bucket and a 6 gallon glass carboy and all of the other accessories needed. The kit is a True Brew, Gold Wine Making...

OK, I'll wait another week to take a reading. Thank you guys for all your help. Would a solution of clorox and water be suitable for sterilizing so I don't have to go through mixing? At least until I get some no-rinse C-Brite.

I haven't checked mine yet, but will look at it in a couple of minutes and get a gravity reading to see where it's at. One question, I have the C-Brite that you have to rinse and I hate mixing it especially if i'm only cleaning something small like a hydrometer. Is there an easier way of...

Sorry, you just answered my question in the previous post. I will take your advice on doing a gravity reading now and then doing another once the bubbling slows to between one to two minutes and getting a couple of consecutive stable readings before I bottle.

If a bubbling airlock is not proof of new fermentation, what else could it be? Infection? Have you seen re-bubbling happen in brews?

Phew! Well, i hope that is the case. I just though it odd that it would seem like it was ready for bottling and then pick back up again. My thought was that it had some sort of infection too. The kit consisted of a combination of a can of dark malt extract and powdered extracts as well as...

My beginning gravity was a 1.042 and it fermented at a temperature of about 65 to 72 degrees. I have not taken another gravity reading since i'm trying to minimize any unnecessary exposure. It was kept in the dining room which doesn't usually get used but the temperature isn't constant either...

I brewed my second batch using a home brew kit with the two 6.5 gallon buckets. I used a True Brew Irish Stout kit and everything went well. For the first two to three days it bubbled away through the airlock and then slowed to about one bubble every one to two minutes. I could not bottle it...