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Yeast & Fermentation
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Technique
Bâtonnage Winemaking Techniques
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Technique
Malolactic Fermentation Timing
Home Winemakers, Let’s Take a Vote: Those of you who put your wines through malolactic fermentation only after the alcoholic fermentation
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Wine-wizard
Kombucha In My Winery?
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Technique
Pairing Yeast with Grape
With so many yeasts made for fermenting wine, how do you choose which will work best with your grapes? Try this funnel approach.
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Technique
Yeast Impact on Wine Aroma and Flavor
If you are of the opinion that yeast selection does not matter and that the only role of yeast is to convert sugar into ethyl alcohol (ethan
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Technique
Fermentation Troubleshooting with Wine Kits
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Technique
Using Variable Volume Wine Tanks
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Article
Malolactic Fermentation for Beginners
A quick explanation of what malolactic fermentation is, and how/when you may want to do it.
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Article
Stopping Fermentation
Learn how to stop fermentation before reaching dryness, plus when and why a winemaker may wish to do so.
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Technique
Co-Inoculation with Wine Yeasts and Bacteria
Ask 5 winemakers and you may get 6 opinions about co-inoculation. But what does the science say?
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Wine-wizard
Fermentation Troubles
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Article
Wild Yeast Fermentation
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Article
Modern Malolactic
There once was a time when MLF only happened spontaneously in winemaking. These days, however, winemakers have more choices when it comes to
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Article
Sur Lie Aging & Bâttonage
An introduction to sur lie aging and why you may want to consider it for your next batch.
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Wine-wizard
Measuring Brix in Fermentation
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Technique
Restart Stuck Fermentations
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Article
Year in the Life of a Wine: Part IV (Good Fermentations)
In the fourth installment of our year-long series about how homemade wine is made using home-grown grapes in Upstate New York, it’s time t
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Technique
Special Purpose Wine Yeasts
Yeast are fairly simple, single-celled organisms. But their diversity, functionality, and ability to adapt is why humans, and especially win
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Article
How Wine Yeast Works
In addition to alcoholic fermentation, the yeast used to ferment wine also metabolize other substances into byproducts. Learn more about how
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Wine-wizard
What To Consider When Selecting A Yeast
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Technique
Using Yeast Nutrients
One of the most important conditions for your yeast to thrive is an abundance of nutrients. If the must doesn’t provide enough naturally,
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Wine-wizard
Wild Fermentations
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Article
Selecting Yeast Roundtable
For tips on selecting the best strains to get the job done, we asked four experts with various wine and yeast-related backgrounds to give us
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Technique
Yeast Trials With Wine Kits
Just because your wine kit comes with a certain yeast, that doesn’t mean you can’t experiment with other options.
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Technique
To Malo Or Not To Malo?
Many home winemakers are uncertain on whether or not to have their wines go through malolactic fermentation. This is not surprising since th