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Wineframes: Day One: The Experiment Begins
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Friday, September 16, 2011. Day One: The Experiment Begins. After a marathon 4 hours of wine making, I am finally sitting down to a glass of Winexpert's California Trinity White, and my first blog post. Ahhhh! A few personal notes:. Each kit contained 60 grams of toasted, and 60 grams of "premium" (read: untoasted) oak. I've not personally seen this much oak in a kit, but I'm interested. I like oak. Long after printing. Having said that...
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Wineframes: December 2011
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Sunday, December 18, 2011. Day 56 through Day 97. Well, it's been awhile since there were any steps for me to complete in this experiment, and then in the end, due to work factors, I did one step rather late.sigh. This first taste reaffirms my belief in bulk aging most kits, at least for a little while. Now I can't wait for the experiment to continue, but there are 3 more months before another bottling- and another taste test- occurs.
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Wineframes: September 2011
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Monday, September 26, 2011. Day 2 through 15. So I've been a bit lax in my blogging of the experiment due to a family emergency, but I have been progressing according to schedule on the wine front. On Day 7, the specific gravity (SG) of the control was 0.996, and the Tim batch was 0.997. High time to get those wines to the secondary! The Tim and the Control batch visually look the same at this point, but the Jack Keller deviates dramaticall...
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Wineframes: Day 15 through Day 31
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Friday, October 14, 2011. Day 15 through Day 31. It's been a few days of hectic wine making! The Tim batch was the next to receive this treatment, on Day 26, at a SG of 0.996, unsurprisingly. Of course, as noted earlier, this carboy was nearly full, so I had to thief some wine so that I had degassing room. This too went well, and again, though I'm not sure the wine is fully degassed, it is clearing. Having said that, I will also state that ...
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Wineframes: April 2012
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Monday, April 23, 2012. The time had come to filter Jack, then let sit for ten days prior to bottling. Well, truth be told, I'm behind schedule, so this was the day for my "revised" schedule. I wasn't sure if I'd have anything interesting to say about filtering, after all, it's just filtering, right? Prior to filtering, I had racked Jack to a primary, then back into the same carboy, so this is not a case of a different sized carboy. I h...
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Wineframes: Day 56 through Day 97
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Sunday, December 18, 2011. Day 56 through Day 97. Well, it's been awhile since there were any steps for me to complete in this experiment, and then in the end, due to work factors, I did one step rather late.sigh. This first taste reaffirms my belief in bulk aging most kits, at least for a little while. Now I can't wait for the experiment to continue, but there are 3 more months before another bottling- and another taste test- occurs.
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Wineframes: Day 32 through Day 55
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Friday, November 4, 2011. Day 32 through Day 55. Alright, time for an update. The issue with the bentonite floaties in the Jack batch went away on its own in a couple of days; the floaties dropped as I stirred a bit more. The wine started clearing beautifully, and it was racked off the the sediment around Day 45 as required. I have to rack this wine again around Day 80, so we now have some down time on this batch. I got exactly 30 bottles o...
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Wineframes: October 2011
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Friday, October 14, 2011. Day 15 through Day 31. It's been a few days of hectic wine making! The Tim batch was the next to receive this treatment, on Day 26, at a SG of 0.996, unsurprisingly. Of course, as noted earlier, this carboy was nearly full, so I had to thief some wine so that I had degassing room. This too went well, and again, though I'm not sure the wine is fully degassed, it is clearing. Having said that, I will also state that ...
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Wineframes: Day...whatever.
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Wednesday, March 21, 2012. I needed to degas off and on for about 3 days to get Jack to an acceptable level. But now he is sitting in his carboy, waiting to be filtered in about a month. As for taste, it's still extremely young tasting, with a pronounced oak profile coming though. I think I can taste the wine it will become somewhere in the background. Less than 6 weeks to bottling! Then the real waiting begins. View my complete profile.
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Wineframes: March 2012
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A tale of three wine kits with different production time frames. Wednesday, March 21, 2012. I needed to degas off and on for about 3 days to get Jack to an acceptable level. But now he is sitting in his carboy, waiting to be filtered in about a month. As for taste, it's still extremely young tasting, with a pronounced oak profile coming though. I think I can taste the wine it will become somewhere in the background. Less than 6 weeks to bottling! Then the real waiting begins. Links to this post.