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Well I'm at 1.030 for the 2nd night on my little 2 gal. blueberry batch. I've been getting some advice on my thread @ the intro. section and I think someone said that at 3 day's with no movement, time to rack it? I think it's is in one of my books's, but at racking, I'm done with the fruit...

Ceeaton, "stabilizing", when is that? & how is it done? I'm still in the bucket and @ 1.046 right now.

I have not seen any foaming at all, just a few bubbles on the surface, really just a few that are prolly from stirring & flopping the fruit bag over & trying to fully sink it.. With the number going down (Have not checked tonight yet) that means the sugars are being eaten and it is working...

Thanks to all. I have a thread on my first batch going.http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55681 It tastes pretty good already & "ya gotta start somewhere" right?

The numbers are getting better and I just left it alone. This evening it's 1.072 and that's good right? (was 1.100 @ day 3) It is day 5 in the bucket, someone said to rack it at about 1.00 or a bit under? If figure it will be good enough for my first try and boone's farm palate:h Baby steps right?

Is it posible to dump in some more berries at this point? I put it together thurs night & it's was in a 60* garage until yesterday if that matters.

I followed the recipe in the book that came in my "BSG" kit, 2.5 pounds of berries per gallon. ABV, = alcohol by volume?? I don't really mind how strong it is as long as it still tastes like the berries. Thanks for responding, this is my very first wine and I'm not really "connecting the dot's"...

OK, it's now reading .086-86. The mesh fruit bag realy covers the whole surface of the bucket and I still don't see any foaming or "working". I don't know if it's my imagination, but it's tasting a little like it might be starting to work.

I'm glad you have confidence:h Thank you Arne and everyone else for the kind welcome.

Thanks for the help, yes, this is my first try at making wine ever. I moved it last night into lower 70's room, but if it helps I could put it in with the wood stove. I'm not sure of the yeast, the helpful wine making store guy just took it out of the 'fridg and handed it to me. It may have said...

Thanks Tom, does that involve honey? That's (honey) the only mead I've heard of. Sounds great.

Howdy, we have a ton of wild blueberries on our place, like a 5 acre patch down in the bog by the river, about 15 pounds in the freezer of witch a few of them ended up with my wife being chased out of the "bog" by a bear! Wine making is about the last use of this wonderful fruit that we haven't...

Hello all, I'm night 3 into my first batch of blueberry wine (or any wine for that matter). As I understand it I was to check my SG at initial "assembly" but when retrieving my brand new hd out of my brand new handy dandy wine making kit, the glass was broken. I also had my must in the 60*...