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Dear Jim Erdman,
I'm glad/sad to hear someone else was
debillated by this wax-y build-up. It is interesting that you had to
resort to tossing the carboy--I was thinking that would be my remedy also; so
I'm glad I experimented with the Oxy-Clean!
I also like Jim Furth's idea of freezing the
elderberries and wacking them off the stems. I tried the fork thing for
cleaning the berries off the stems--I didn't have enough
patience.
I finally squeezed them stems-and-all through
the KitchenAid juicer. So I am sure I was dealing with some stem
material. I did clip the umbells of berries off as close to
the berries as possible with a scissors, but there still was the close-up
stuff. But my "secret source" is in a wild, middle of a 6 block
undeveloped urban area (small town) that might not exist next year--I had to
take advantage of the berries when available. The squeezed juice was
ssooooo thick I cut it with a couple of gallons of water; and ended up with
about 8 gallons of original must. I did my first rack out of carboys and
it looks like I'll get a net of about 5 gallons--so I had about three gallons of
lees. And they were gross. But I am encouage, the little taste I did
sample seemed pretty good--nice full body. All my messes might be worth
while. ( had a little siphon accident with the racking and sort of squited
all over so I was a little flustered and forgot to test specific gravity.
Maybe next weekend I'll fool around a little and sample and test a little more
thoroughly.)
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