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My understanding was that these two were same thing except the Campden tablets were just in tablet form, so when I dosed my wines, I crushed the Campden tablets and measured out the dose rate as if using K-Meta, is that incorrect? I just read another post that said when using Campden tabs, it’s...

Thanks for the input, I ended up making a second 2 gallon batch with an SG of 1.054 using 6lbs of frozen mango and one 28oz can of mango puree, will see how that goes!

I have tried a small glass, adding a 1/2 tsp of sugar and it does help a little, but the alcohol is still in your face. I have also considered just watering down slightly and adding a little more mango flavoring and putting on tap as a mango, carb’d, wine cooler for summer by the pool.

For my first ever wine, I went with a Mango Pulp wine recipe found in a home beer brewing forum. I am about 6 weeks in, primary is done, in the secondary now and is clearing nicely. My problem is (and I realize this should improve with time) that the wine is really hot, kinda like a vodka with...

And yes it is below 1.000!

Thx for the detailed response, figured there must have been a valid reason that the cold crash wasn’t a good idea. I will go ahead and rack it over, I do have a stainless 300 micron hop filter, so I may rack thru that screen to avoid racking over the pulp. Was concerned about oxygen at this...

After 25 plus years of beer brewing, just started my first batch of a mango wine using canned mango pulp. 2.5 weeks into primary and looking like we have hit FG so I need to rack off the leftover pulp and lees. The recipe I followed from the beer forum says to rack after 2-3 weeks but where...