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Amber · 05-28-2011, 01:46 PM

I am from Minnesota and made my first kit last fall. Besides kits I have made an apple, blueberry, & pumpkin (probably never going to drink that one - lots of things floating around in the bottles!). I also currently have a dozen juice combinations in secondary containers. Haven't drank anything but the kit wine to date so I am not sure how much success I have had. I am enjoying the process and thought all was going really well until the "thing" that starting growing in my reisling. On the positive side of that I discovered this forum and think this is going to be amazingly useful.
And after reading some other newbie posts I am very excited to make our old nebulizer into a filter!

Runningwolf · 05-28-2011, 02:00 PM

Amber welcome to the forum. Honestly I do not like to read books much and learned everything I know right from this forum. There are masters and experimenters and thats how we all learned. I can remember groups of us all deciding to experiment with the same wine and doing different things with different results. Then tasting each others to perfect the wine to our own likings next time. Some of these were Candy Cane wine, Apple from fresh cider, Jalapeño and Pumpkin. I did not make any pumpkin. You can do a search for anyone of these to see our results. If you don't like the way the pumpkin is right now, you could dump it all back into a carboy and either filter it or wait for all the sediment to drop out of it. If you do this I would hit it again with k-meta for protection.

Tom · 05-28-2011, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Amber

I am from Minnesota and made my first kit last fall. Besides kits I have made an apple, blueberry, & pumpkin (probably never going to drink that one - lots of things floating around in the bottles!). I also currently have a dozen juice combinations in secondary containers. Haven't drank anything but the kit wine to date so I am not sure how much success I have had. I am enjoying the process and thought all was going really well until the "thing" that starting growing in my reisling. On the positive side of that I discovered this forum and think this is going to be amazingly useful.
And after reading some other newbie posts I am very excited to make our old nebulizer into a filter!

Amber, WELCOME

Now it seams you were fast to bottle your pumpkin. Fruit wines need 6 months and multiple rackings.

Remember the 3 "P's"
Patience
Patience
Patience

djrockinsteve · 05-28-2011, 05:39 PM

Amber welcome. We have alot of great people here and a wealth of knowledge. No one knows it all but all of us combined we know a good bit.

I made a pumpkin last year. It's aging for 2 years before tasting. It has a beautiful color and extremely clear. As Tom advises patience everything in time.

Give us more details and we should be able to help you.