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I like the idea of making it a port. I need to research that.

@Mike, that is exactly what happened.

Thank you for the great information!

My first reading was 1.058

-I repitched Friday morning -it has been 1.034, 1.032 and now 1.030 3 days in a row -Must temperature is 72 degrees -I could never get my ph tester to calibrate correctly, so no I don't know the PH. Its a juice bucket I figured it was pre set. Thanks for the help.

While bringing my Syrah up to room temperature, It had already started to ferment itself. Not realizing what this was I took a hydrometer reading and saw that it was low for pitching yeast, so I added sugar to bring the SG up to 1.090. The Must started to ferment, but slowly. It has now been...

Thank you for the advice!

Hi Everyone. I'm picking up my first couple batches of Wine Juice in a few weeks and have a few questions. I've read that Red wine juices may be light in color and light in body, because the juice did not sit on the skins. I've also read on this forum to add grapes to the juice to give body...

I plan on purchasing 6 gallons of Cabernet Sauvignon & 6 gallons of Syrah juice

Hello All, I found so much great information of this forum, that I had to join. I will be posting my plans to make my first batch from wine juice soon, and hope to get some good feed back on the my process.