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Zinfandel Update

Syphoned off to a bucket to continue fermentation. I had major problems with the brew controller.  It looks like one of the soldering joints had gone dry, and took about an hour and a half to work out and fix.

DateSpecific GravityAlcohol Content (%)
20th October 20151,0840
2nd November 201599611.6

This just gets left for another ten days or so.

More rosé, Zinfandel Blush

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We like our home made rosé, but the firm that we were using (Sadlers) has gone bust. May and Brett had no rosé available, so it was off to ballihoo.co.uk for supplies. We selected California Connoisseur Zinfandel Blush.  My first kit (and the best white I made I believe) was California so definitely worth a second go.

My brew controller got an “upgrade”. In the process I borked the two temperature sensors, so after about 5 hours work (out came the soldering iron to fix it and make the “upgrade” more permanent) I had it doing its job again.  The speech marks are because the upgrade is not so successful. It is supposed to be a microphone that hears and counts bubbles, but I just can’t quite get it working properly.  Work in progress I think.

DateSpecific GravityAlcohol Content (%)
20th October 20151,0840
2nd November 201599611.6