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I just did the first racking of a Jalapeno wine, and I started French Vanilla Coffee wine yesterday. LOL My basement smells awesome right now. The one I am not sure about is my Cinnamon Pumpkin Spice Wine, it tastes brutal now, but supposedly in about a year it will be much better.

This spring we had a "wintered" wine party. One of my boat friends left over a case of mixed bottles on his saiboat this winter which froze and pushed the corks half way out. Anyways it was all still very good tasting and I may try freezing some of my own before spring.

Sure, later in the spring, or early Summer I would have no problem going for a road trip to sample and swap some wine. Shawn

For the members here in Nova Scotia, I am always up for swapping a few bottles of anything. Come the summer all the variety is great in the cockpit. Always lots of people around to share with.

I did have an issue years ago, where some water got into the carboy from the air lock. Now I use whiskey or vodka in the airlock.

I passed on the first couple but have the; Australian Petit Verdot Pacific Quartet & Italian Brunello all on order.

I make beer, but from kits. The home brew kits of today are miles ahead of where they were 10 years ago. To date, the Festa Brew Dry is the best, it takes 11 days, and if you have a kegging system, it's truely amazing. The only big difference between wine and beer is that with beer, you are...

Shoot, I was going to ask this very question, but the people at the wine store told me to whip the heck out of it. So, I did. Will my wine be trashed? I will leave it anyways, but now I am worried.

Okay, the SG of my Pumpkin wine was 1.040, now it's 1.000, so unless it goes a little lower (still 2 weeks to go in the primary according to the recipe I had) it looks like the Alcohol content is going to be a little low. I guess the next time I try this I will have to bump up the sugar to 2 kgs...

Not sure yet, it's still in the carboy. I am going to keg most of it this Friday to use in my kegerator. It takes about 12 hours to carbonate and then, Sparkling Strawberry Reisling ....mmmmm I will give an update on Saturday, assuming I don't drink too much of it and forget how to type.

LOL 3 days :D

I just started a Pumpkin Wine, hopefully to be ready for next Thanksgiving (October in Canada). I started with this recipe and went from there. http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~goodwine/pumpkinwine.htm One Med (3-4 kg) Pumkin likely equal to about three 1lb cans, so for 6 gallons I would...

Thanks for all the help. I did add some of the Concentrate, it is much better now. Hopefully now I didn't over do it. Especially if I need to let this sit for several months. Again, thank you.

Unfortunately, I was very tired when I posted last noght that it was the Heritage, I seemed to recall it was a small box. I found the box this morning, it is actually the 10 liter Grand Cru. Regardless I am off to the wine store today to pick up some concentrate like Wade E suggested.

Thanks guys, this just shows my inexperience. Live and learn I guess. It is the lesser volume Heritage Kit. I appreciate the help though, we all start somewhere. For sure I will be looking for varieties with more volume and less added water. Cheers