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Now where was this tip this spring when I cleaned all the bottles people had given me. Lol

oh yes, the bottled wine goes down into the cold storage room in the basement. I don't have a sink or any shelving down there to make it.

Well i bottled the saskatoon and mixed berry last night soi don't have to worry about them. i will cover the apple cider right away.

I have a saskatoon berry, a mixed berry and an apple cider wine in secondary carboys aging. I have them in the kitchen cause I have no where else to go with them. Recently someone mentioned to me that I should have them in the dark. Is this true?

Thank you Saramc! My mint is not chocolate mint but I am definitely going to start freezing it and make some in the fall. I am interested to see how it will turn out. So you have made mint wine before? Do you have a recipe?

I am interested in making some mint wine. So 8 ounces of dried leaves is all you needed? I am going to use fresh because I have so much in the garden. I think I am going to freeze the leaves and make it after summer. Where did you get your chocolate extract from? And you added this after the...

My Saskatoon wine is still aging. Haven't bottled it yet. We have been doing house renos for the last 2 plus months. I stuck in the corner for now. Took a little sample on the weekend. It was good

It ended up being closer to a 4 gallon batch. It smells wonderful.

We still have winter... snow on the ground &no sign of spring:(

I haven't made this yet but was thinking on it. How does it smell? Have you tasted it yet? I am new to wine making but from reading on here I know they will want to know your starting SG, what kind of yeast you used, what the temperature is at, if you added any yeast nutrient or energizer and...

Won't ship to me. I just tried :(

I just did this last month to my apple cider wine. I ended up making another yeast starter and got that going good then slowly introduced some of the must to it. I added it to the rest of the must and by the next day it was fermenting happily. I did stir it quite frequently while it was...

I used the slurry from the mixed berry wine to make it. the finished product is a very light orange color and very good. I will take a picture of it and post it for you.