Calm down guys, it seems like both of you are reading only part of the post.

Poster says "homebrewing" in the original posts which probably confused the
issue. But second sentence says

"Seems a better way to add tannins to concentrate wine kits then adding
powdered grape tannins."

Note the add tannins to concentrate WINE KITS.

Now my answer. I have never found a source for grape skins. I would
imagine if there was they would have to be dried (or freeze dried) since
they would spoil very quickly. Dried skins would quickly grumble and thus
you would end up with a coarse powder anyway.

You might want to check with a winery on crush day and see if you could
scoot out with some of the pressings...

Tom

"evilpaul13" > wrote in message
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> (John Vernier Simon) wrote in message
. com>...
> > And why exactly is that? Grape tannins are used in brewing for mead,
> > bear, cider etc etc etc as well as wine. Thanks for making a pretty
> > pointless post.
> >
> > > This isn't exactly a rec.crafts.brewing topic...
>
> You're the first person I've ever heard suggest using grape skins to
> add tannin to beer. Most brewers I've spoken to try to *avoid*
> extracting tannins.
>
> rec.crafts.winemaking is a group that is full of winemakers, and
> rec.crafts.meadmaking is full of mead makers.
>
> Sorry if that is hard to follow.