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Five Star PBW Cleaner Review

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PBW Cleaner

For cleaning fermentation buckets, wine bottles and your other wine making equipment, its hard to beat the effectiveness of Five Star PBW. It’s a buffered alkaline detergent that has been proven to be more than effective substitute for caustic soda cleaners that is safe on the skin as well as stainless steel, glass and plastics. It is the preferred cleaner for many home winemakers. PBW’s contains Sodium percarbonate (an oxidizer), Sodium carbonate aka washing soda (a buffering agent) plus Sodium metasilicate (a builder). It uses active oxygen […]

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Carboy Cover Review

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From racking, to fermenting, to cleaning, to storage, your carboy never needs to be removed from the All-in-One Carboy Cover. No other product on the market can do everything that the All-in-One Carboy Cover does. This high quality product is a must-have for any home winemaker. Initially these covers were purchased to keep the light away from the wine as it ages and to make moving carboys much easier then using a carboy handle. It covers those bases with flying colors! What I found to be a […]

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Tips for Making Wine from Concentrate

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If you are just starting out, wine concentrates or wine kits offer an easy way for you to get started with your first batch of wine. Kits come with simple, easy-to-follow instruction that eliminate all of the guesswork.  Making wine is as simple as following a recipe and wine kits provide you with all of the ingredients you need, pre-measured and ready to use out right of the box. You’ve been to the local brew store or shopped online for wine kits and you have noticed that […]

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A Look at the Steps of Making Wine

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If you are a wine lover, the next step in appreciating a great bottle of wine may be to make your own wine at home. While the process may seem to be complicated, wine can be made easily at home. Before beginning the process of making your own wine at home it is important to understand the basic steps of wine making. The general process begins with taking the juice of a fruit (grapes or other fruits) and introducing yeast that multiply and turn the sugars found […]

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Guide to The Basics of Winemaking

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Before you begin your first batch of wine, it is a good idea to understand something of the background of wine and the basics of winemaking. Today there are certainly many kits which can be purchased which will walk you step by step through the process of winemaking. Even so, you may find that you enjoy and appreciate the results all the more for understanding the background of each step. Wine is produced by fermenting grapes that have been freshly harvested. While many people today have taken […]

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Troubleshooting Fermentation Problems

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As we all know, fermentation is one of the critical stages of wine making. Without fermentation, it is impossible to create wine as the base process involves live organisms called yeast turning sugars into alcohol.  There may be times you may find that you have problems with the fermentation process. Usually, these problems will take the form of either fermentation that just does not occur at all (stuck) or else is too slow. One of the reasons that this may occur is that the temperature was either […]

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