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Thanks for the advise. I threw the raisins (15oz box)in a small colander and poured some hot water over them, then kind of diced them with a sanitized pair of kitchen shears. Then I tossed them in, I will pull them out when I rack to secondary.

I have made a few batch's of welches white grape peach wine. I generally follow the recipe found here but I use the bottled juice instead of frozen concentrate. I have always got rave reviews from this wine. I am currently getting ready to make a 3 gal batch (the only currently empty carboy)...

Did you add any Potassium Sorbate? If not your yeast will ferment the sugar you added

At least you weren't bare foot, Were you? It could have been worse

Its ranging in the mid 70's, course its been 100+ most of the week, so there isn't much relief even on the cold basement floor. I also started with a pretty strong batch of yeast so it started fermenting pretty quickly.

SG on my raspberry is down to 1.010 already

Not sure what size the pot is there are several large soup kettles to choose from, but I know they will fit in my utility sink. I was thinking of setting the pot in the sink, with some Ice, Water and a Bit of Salt. Kind of like making ice cream. Also my secret for keeping a keg cold back in...

Just a note you want 6 gallon carboys for wine. Most kits make 6 gallons not 5. 2 is more convenient than 1 but I find that I also end up making more wine not keeping a empty sitting around for racking so I usually do the carboy -- bucket -- back to clean carboy thing

On another forum I belong to they have a product review section. There are several measures that you can give a 1-5 rating on. Then space for a brief narrative. The great thing is that it is searchable by mfg and alpha so you can easily compare brand a b c to see which is the best. You can...

So the other day my dad stopped by and piked up my mail which included a catalog from Northern Brewers. Now he has decided that I should brew him a batch of beer. With all my wine stuff I believe I have most everything covered. I also have a few cases of beer bottles, capper, and caps. My...

I worked in one of the worlds largest corn/soybean processing facilities. There were Rats that made house cats look small. The rats actually would stand their ground to a human. The company would turn ferrets loose in the plant yearly to drive out the rats/mice. When the rats were gone the...

I just started a raspberry version yesterday , literally just added pectic enzyme a few minutes ago. With 7 lbs of raspberrys I have a little over 4 gallons in my primary so you should be pretty close as strawberrys are bigger and you have a lot twice as many

get a gallon of the cheapo rossi wine. It comes in a glass gallon jug and is almost as cheap as the empty glass jug from the wine store. At least you get the wine to drink

what are you measuring? One is a measure of mass/weight the other volume. Everything will be different