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- 21. Wine Descriptions
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- ... german “Spatlese” version Malbec:The wine of the Malbec is highly colored and markedly tannic. It is well constituted but the aroma is somewhat feeble, which is why preferences often given to the cabernet ...
- Created on 06 October 2016
- 22. Problems during fermentation
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- ... the co2 may be preventing them from working, stir the wine to remove co2 and then add more finings. These methods may be used on many protein hazes as well. Problem Thick foam has formed ...
- Created on 30 August 2016
- 23. Rose Hip Wine (1)
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... these and stir well to dissolce sugar. Cover primary and set aside to cool. When room temperature, add pectic enzyme, acid blend and yeast nutrient. Recover and set aside 12 hours. Add yeast. Stir twice ...
- Created on 29 August 2016
- 24. Blackberry Wine Recipe
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... 1. Wash the blackberries thoroughly to remove any maggots. Put into the fermenting vessel, crush well and cover with 6 pints of boiling water. When cool, add the crushed Camden tablet and pectin enzyme ...
- Created on 29 August 2016
- 25. Hydrogen Sulfide
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... Use the first glass as the control. Put 5 drops of the diluted copper sulphate solution into glass number two and stir well. Into glass number three, put 5 drops of the ascorbic acid solution, stir well ...
- Created on 28 August 2016
- 26. Malolactic Fermentation
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... well as additions up to, perhaps, 150 ppm SO2. WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO MALOLACTIC FERMENTATION? There are several, some critical: pH is the single most important factor The ideal ...
- Created on 28 August 2016
- 27. Plum Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... TO USE AND PLANT: Japanese (Prunus salicina) and European (P. domestica) Plums are attractive as well as productive 15 ft. to 20 ft. trees. European plums are more tart and not as juicy as Japanese plums. ...
- Created on 28 August 2016
- 28. Acid Adjustment Decisons
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- ... These decisions include: (2)when to harvest and (3)when to add (4)how much (if any) of (5)which acids, as well as (6)acid stabilization. Monitor Brix (with refractometer or hydrometer) and TA (total ...
- Created on 26 August 2016
- 29. The Home Winemakers' Wine Lab
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... device for the home winemaker during fermentation, since it is wide enough to accommodate a hydrometer. It can be used to take samples as well as to take hydrometer readings while you ferment in a glass ...
- Created on 26 August 2016
- 30. Cherry Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... cherries in the primary fermenter and crush well by hand. Pour on 2 pints of boiled and cooled water and mix well. Crush and dissolve one campden tablet in a little warm water and stir into the mixture. ...
- Created on 19 August 2016
- 31. Barley Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- Back to Fruit Wine Recipes BARLEY WINE Ingredients: 1 lb. barley 1 lb. raisins 1 lb. potatoes 3 1⁄2 lb. preserving sugar Yeast, yeast nutrient 1 gallon hot water The juice of two lemons 1 Campden ...
- Created on 15 August 2016
- 32. Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) in Winemaking
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... deal with pH considerations later. If you are planning to have a malolactic ferment, or ML, happen at the same time as the sugar ferment, don’t add the ML culture until the sugar ferment is well underway. ...
- Created on 10 August 2016
- 33. Mead Wine Recipes
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... rich in simple sugars; dextrose and levulose and contains more calories than ordinary sugar as well as sodium, iron and potassium. It is probably mans oldest sweet food. In many early civilizations it ...
- Created on 15 September 2015
- 34. Wine Tasting Course
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... a lesson in history, geography, agriculture, botany; sometimes anthropology, religion, psychology and more. There's no reason to be snobbish about wine, and none to fear it. But it's well worth talking about ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 35. Almond Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... the Sugar and stir well untill it is all disolved. Once it has cooled to 70°F add the Yeast and Nutrient. Cover and ferment for 10 days. Now strain it into a fermentation jar and fit an airlock. As it ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 36. Sulphur Dioxide in WineMaking
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... deal with pH considerations later. If you are planning to have a malolactic ferment, or ML, happen at the same time as the sugar ferment, don’t add the ML culture until the sugar ferment is well underway. ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 37. Wine Glossary
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- ... term referring to the driest (least sweet) Champagne. Always drier than "extra dry." Bud break: The action of buds swelling and beginning new growth in spring. Bud: Small swelling on a shoot ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 38. Port Wine Instructions
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... layers which, unless well mixed, allows fermentation to continue. If fermentation continues, this will result in a high alcohol acidic wine. After mixing is completed, rack the port in a glass carboy and ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 39. Wine Making Equipment
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- ... California and the Pacific Northwest. They also grow well in microclimates scattered from New York to the Great Lakes, the Mid-Atlantic states and beyond. Those who live in colder, wetter climates may ...
- Created on 16 September 2014
- 40. Obtaining More Alcohol
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- ... be well fed with nutrients. A species of yeast that is more tolerant to alcohol can be used such as Port, Sherry, Tokay or Sauternes. Even so, don't be surprised if the process takes more than six months. ...
- Created on 16 September 2014