Dude we're doing almost the same kit at the same time. I think I'm a week or
ten days ahead of you, I just racked mine into the carboy tonight. I'm doing
the Selection "Limited Edition" South African Shiraz kit. What was your
starting SG? I was at 1.092. The oak chips will sink to the bottom of the
pail soon. By day three or four it will be really fizzing up a storm.

"Casey Wilson" > wrote in message
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> The kit is assembled into the primary fermenter and bunged up with an
> airlock. This is my first kit that came with oak "chips." More like
sawdust
> they are. Four packets came with the kit with instructions to mix in all
> four at this initial stage. Two were labeled as "toasted oak." Hmmm, looks
> more like grinding off the inside of a barrel to collect the nearly
charred
> stuff and then digging deeper to get to the chips.
> Else that sounds like grousing, I'm happy to follow the instructions
to
> the end -- I really intended that to be tongue-in-cheek.
> Let's see, I slapped the lid on 30 minutes ago... time to go check and
> see if it started bubbling yet.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Casey Wilson
> Freelance Writer
> and Photographer
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>