Can anyone recommend a good source for #champagne and #wine corks? I'm looking for natural cork if possible and in small quantities (100 or so). I'm using some Acquamark corks for my still wine but I'm having a hell of a time finding good champagne corks in smaller quantities. Also, what size crown cap will fit most wine bottles? Thanks!

Are there any #champagne enthusiasts out there who can recommend my next bottle? I love Ullens, Krug, and Ruinart Blanc de Blanc

WTF:

Mistakes May Have Been Made I may have gone a little overboard this season. I hope all these pears freeze within 5-8 days.

Bottling / Tasting Pear Wine I had two gallons of pear #wine sitting in carboys for secondary fermentation and to clarify naturally. One of the bottles was running low from initial fill and hydrometer readings so I decided to bottle it. I left the other carboy to sit for several more months. I'm happy with the color. I hope the other bottle continues to clarify.

Anyone out there willing to take an inbound 50k Sat channel and has reasonable fees? I need to open one so I can pay for some inbound liquidity on my new #lightning node. Also if you have tips for what fees to set so I don't immediately drain all that outbound liquidity that would be awesome.

I'm having a terrible time getting into the bitcoin game. I've got my own lightning and bitcoin nodes but I'm stalled out trying to get funds / channels in there. I've been to over half a dozen sites that promise it will be easy to buy bitcoin but there are myriad ways it goes wrong: - Using a vpn or tor? Many sites just block you for "abuse" - Want to go p2p for no KYC well then you need some sats to pay for the collateral - Hell, half the "no KYC" sites just use third parties that want everything including your SSN. - Not to mention all the sites that just fail with unhelpful error messages like "try again later"

What difference can a little headspace on your secondary make? These two carboys of pear wine were poured from the same primary! Look at that color difference! Which one do you think caused this color change? Is it the headspace? Was it because I poured the darker one last? These have been sitting about a month now.

I was looking for a familiar reddit like client to bucket some of my topics here on nostr and started a new community over at

Satellite

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#winemaking #wine

Welcome Lets get a wine community started on the nostr network! I look forward to hearing from all the winemakers out there!

Welcome to winemaking on nostr/satelite. I'm pretty new to winemaking but I'm excited to share my new found passion with others. Cheers for Liberty and Wine.