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racked it yesterday into carboy onto 5 ccambden tabs, added fermentation stopper, degassed with wand and added kwik klear. today - could see a layer of sediment on bottom or carboy and its murkey.. racked it into a clean FV - cleaned carboy and racked back into carboy. added another dose of...

pectolase smells of smelling salts (amonia).. not yeast nutrient.. well at least mine does.

well considering WOW can't produce a full bodied red I guess it's going to have to do. I wouldn't even consider wine buddy...

Ok - I am happy to learn from your experience.. bag in box only �£3.. how many times do you get to reuse the bag in box in your experience? ah.. just read your post again.. I'm fermenting in a bucket and clearing in a pet carboy. Wine would only go into water bottle once cleared.

No not that one.. I made that - its lovely. This one klaus posted - Easy red A gallon to start with. Recipe below. Don't know the sugar content of the RGC but I guess total sugar is about 1100g. 1 Litre Red Grape Juice (Lidl) 1 Litre Cranberry/Raspberry Juice Drink (Lidl)...

never considered garage getting hot.. which of course it can do. I am fermenting in there at the moment and using aquarium heaters so the notion of it getting too hot hasn't come to me. The only place I can think that is dark and stays cool is my under stairs cupboard.. I may need to make some...

I am after a recipe for a full bodied smooth red, with not a lot of acidity.. does the one of the first page tick the boxes? I've probably got some wood chips lying around somewhere i could use if that's the done thing.. left over form a gift related to my other hobby, smoking/bbq

all received and fermenting nicely. I will check out that red kit as I love a nice rojo and at £28.49 certainly getting closer to wow prices.

I've got the 5l water bottles and ordered some 5l "bag in box" off the bay, work out less than £3 each and re-usable. Water bottle will be decanted into "bag in box" then "bag in box" placed in fridge so air contact with product will be minimal

yes of course.. I have ordered a 23l pet carboy and a degassing wand, I will rack into the carboy onto campden tablets and ferment stopper and degass. leave to clear and then syphon into 5l water bottles for storage. it wont be in them for longer than a month or two.

ah ok. so I would need to put a bung and bubbler through the lid? or is it ok to just screw the lid on? if i has to be the former then maybe I need a rethink.

thanks.. every penny counts when making 50p bottles of wine ;-) does my methodology look "ok" in terms of racking/degassing/storage?

ok so Ive done a demijohn easy rose and love it! time to scale up. 5 litre RGJ 5 litre apple juice 4kg sugar (dissolved in water) 6 bag brew 5 tsp yeast 5 tsp nutrient 5 tsp pectralose put in fermenting bucket top up to 22litres ferment until .995/bubbles stopped etc. now what next? syphon...

more i think about it.. 4 x 5l water bottles per 23l brew.. 1 x vinotainer for the fridge (rose only)

I am soon going to have a 23l WOW and a 23l kit to store... I am thinking 2 x 20l vinotainers and 2 x 5l vinotainers... fill the 5l, put the rest in a 20l and leave in the garage.. put the 5l in the fridge.. sound ok? what does everyone else do? or maybe some 5l water bottles? (the 20l...

update.. it's bottled and bl00dy lovely and I don't drink wine.. Going to scale up to a bucket full and keep in a 20l and 5l vinotainer.. already sick to death of washing and sterilising bottles.

wow rose recipe turned out amazing. very happy. wish I hadn't bought the 30 bottle CC kit now.. NVM it'll get drunk. Going to upscale to 25l now.

its down to .992 and was still bubbling every 4 seconds. I am going to go to stop it and proceed with phase 2.

it's for the missus and she bangs a load of ice in the glass and tops it up with lemonade :lol: - purely a cost saving exercise. also with regards to the bubbling.. isn't the gravity more accurate than waiting for all bubbles to go as bubbles could be just it in need of degassing?

if it involves me not spending money then it's assigned a very favorable weighting factor! on another note.. i put up a wow rose last week, started at 1.08 and it's at 1 now. It is however still producing c02.. a few small bubbles through the airlock every 10 seconds.. is it ok to stop it...