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Jim
 
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I received this response from Vineco:

Hi Jim,

Yes, you can leave some out but be sure to add the Sherry Essence because
that is what gives the wine its sherry style.

Regards,

Vince Rines
Customer Service Representative,
Vineco International Products
1-877-855-9355 Ext.222
www.vineco.on.ca

Thanks to all who responded. I'll experiment with the amounts and see
what happens.

Insprucegrove wrote:
> I am currently making a Brew King Sherry kit, and it comes with the F-pack
> which I assume is similar to your reserve bag. The Brew King product lets you
> make both a sweet and dry style, with the dry foregoing the F Pack (and no
> adding corn sugar either). The man at the store I bought it from advises he
> regularly makes the dry style according to the instructions and enjoys drinking
> it on a regular basis!
> This will be my 3rd fortified Brew King product, but the first 2 were Port
> wines so they did need the F pack, but the sherry I am going to try without
>
> I found a PDF file showing the instructions for all the Brew King fortified
> wines--read the sherry part and decide if you want to do that.
>
> Heres a link to the file
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> http://www.homebrewit.com/Speciale0101.pdf
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>>m using a Vineco Kendall Ridge Classic kit to make a sherry. The
>>previous time I used the same kit I found the sherry too sweet. The
>>kit contains a sherry reserve bag (looks like about a litre) which is
>>added after degassing. I assume that this is basically a syrup. The
>>directions say that this give a sweetness of about 8. Would it be
>>wise to leave this out completely or just add half or some other
>>portions. Any suggestions....thanks.
>>

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