Recent content by ira

Has anyone tried the Black Cherry Pinot Niagra mist kit? I saw it at my local and was thinking of giving it a try.

I added Kmeta and sorbate when I racked. Figured better safe than sorry. I'm kinda looking forward to the redheaded stepchild gallon.

I didn't bother taking one, it had sat for quite awhile so I was pretty sure it was done fermenting. I'm kicking myself now for not checking. I'll be sure and do it before bottling though, so I know.

I racked this, again, and had about 3 and a half gallons left after all the lees were removed. However I had about half a bottle of brandy and some rum, and about 5 cups of merlot left over from an racking earlier in the day so I added all that into the last gallon and figure it can't be that...

There is a pretty thick cap on it that I just punched down. I did pick up some acid blend today, but passed on the acid test, just seemd expensive at 20 bucks.

I'm on my third batch of this kit in two months and have boosted each of them to about 1.09. This wine can easily handle higher. My wife and all of her friends can't get enough of it. First nice day of the season yesterday and we had half the neighborhood over drinking it. From the comments I've...

Yeah I intended to end up at 1.09 but overshot. U don't have an acid test, and the nearest place to pick one up would be about an hour round trip. Is there a certain mouth feel I could go for to get a rough guess on the acid?

I started 4 gallons of blackberry wine this weekend and after I had most everything mixed I realized I had bought calcium carbonate instead of acid blend. The recipe calls for a pretty good amount of acid, is that something I can add at any point in the process or have I doomed myself to flabby...

Thanks for the replies. I decided to do the Black Raspberry Merlot again, as she liked that one more than the shiraz. But I did a sidestep and bought a strawberry white merlot along with the raspberrythat I started first. On top of doing some cherry apple from some juice. I'm starting to...

Hi all, I just recently got into the hobby/addiction that is home wine making. My wife seems to really like the Island Mistwildberry shiraz, and she was wanting me to make the Blueberry Shiraz from Ocean Breezin'. I can't seem to find a review or any recommendations for it anywhere though. Has...