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Well thanks for the help. I can't recork with untreated corks since my corker comes apart(threads failed but didn't really break) when I try to use the #8 corks untreated but worked fine after I steamed them to soften them up. Sounds like I might need to just get a new corker.

http://www.homebrewit.com/aisle/p/4036 This is the corker I was using.

Started a 6 gallon batch yesterday. 17,215

So I bottled my mullberry wine yesterday and today I was attaching those pvc shrinky caps to make the bottles look nicer and I noticed there were bits of cork floating around in 5 out of the 18 bottles I made. I had to steam the corks which were first quality #8, 1 3/4 corks, in order to soften...

It was kept in a closet in my apartment where the thermostat is set to 74 and kept there pretty reliably.

So I started a batch of mulberry wine last weekend, pitched the yeast Sunday afternoon. I used red star Cote des Blancs wine yeast. The recipe I was sort of using said that after 5-7 days the SG should be 1.04 and I should rack to the secondary removing all the pulp. I took a measurement...

So I just started my first batch of real wine, a 4 gallon batch of mulberry wine saturday night, pitched the yeast sunday. Today I go to punch down the cap and stir it up and peeeeyew rotton egg smell in my fermenting closet. So I've read that if you have this problem toward the end of...