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Okay, i just measure the SP and it is 1.000, maybe a little under, but not by very much at ALL. Can i go ahead and add the final ingredients? What do I do?

How do I take the SG when the wine is in the large glass carboy? Do i just drop it in?

Okay, so I started an Island Mist kit and it is now in the secondary. When I started the secondary I put in 4 lbs of sugar to up the alcohol content. Well that was 2 weeks ago and it is still fermenting. When i give the carboy a little shake, it bubbles like crazy. So, here is my...

I used to use Belknap Reserve for the wine name since that is the street that I live on. I am now moving to Tampa Fl, and would like a fun name for my wine. Any Ideas????? Here is a lable that I just made for a wine that I will start when I move toFlorida next month.

Could some one give me step by step intructions for how to add sugar to up that alcohol content in a Green Apple Reisling by Island Mist? Thanks a bunch!!!

My brother bottled a batch of strawberry wine. about a month later, all of the bottles exploded. Some one told him that when you make fruit wines and back sweeten, it reactivates the yeast and causes it to start fermenting again, thus creates so much pressure that the corks blow off of the...

When I am looking at wine recipes and it says that it is MEAD, what does that mean? I am looking that sweet honey wine recipe on the FVW recipe page. THANKS!

Has anyone made coffee wine?? I just saw the recipe on the recipes page of FVW and was curious what this would taste like. ANY ADVICE????

NEVERMIND I JUST READ THE THREAD BELOW WITH THE SAME QUESTION! I am doing this using my tea kettle. But it seems to take a minute or two for the wrapper to srink up and it is getting bubbles in it. Could some one tell me in detail how to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edited by: eduk8or

I just bottled the Blackberry Cabernet Island Mist wine. I did my specific gravity readings at the beginning and the end of my process. The first reading was 1.051 and the final was 1.16 So what is my alcohol content???

Belknap is the name of the street that I live on. I decided to use that name for our label because it is an interesting name! I will be moving to Florida in a few months, so i will have to think of a new name. Something tropical. If anyone has any ideas, let me know!

The font of top is just Monotype Corsiva and the font on the bottop half is Harrington

it is just a picture of a vinyard that is washed out and faded

This is my firts attempt at my wine label!

I realized that I used a fermenting bucket for beer instead of wine, so it is a bit smaller. It is filledabout 1 inch from the top.