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I want to start a batch of apple wine from juice But I dont have Tannin and Anti Oxident can these be added later like mondat or should I wait never mind on the Anti"s needed to read inst. again, but still how about the tannin, and should I be mixing this in a S.S. bucket or is it OK to just...

I agree sweet siphon is there a patent on that ?

I got a batch going and was going to bottle and I put a plastic wrap on the carboy with a rubber band and it started to inflated so I new I had to degass, I hadnt seen any activity in the air lock for a long time and figured it was degassed, but not so my wife has a vacuum thing for food bags so...

There is also a guy on U tube, I just googled degassing wines, and he uses a wine saver, says it takes two days and costs about $20, there is another guy that uses a food saver vacuum

Ok so here is where I am at and I might be too early for sweeten up, I went to the beer and wine store in town and bought a loganberry fruit wine base and followed the directions, I stared on 10-11 initial S.G. 1.090, I second racked on 11-2 and then again on 11-19 the time on 11-19 I went from...

what is the proceedure for sweetening up

I have downloaded a book" the home wine making book by michiel pesgens" which I am starting to understand a little and the grapes, i dont have them yet the gentleman tells me that they are sweet and about to fall off. I think they are a concord bu not sure its an established plant around 25-30...

I am already mixed up (wine wise that is) no yeast yet so would it hurt greatly to wait till monday to add acid blend also looking for a good recipe for grape wine from fruit

I bought a fruit wine base, recipe calls for 5tsp acid blend which I dont have I read somewhere else you can use lemon juice instead if so how much if it

So when I do this and I am using the recipe from this site do I multiply the other ingredients, sugar, p. enzime, y. nutrient or just the sugar which I think it calls for 3-1/2 lbs per gallon

Thanks Wade, by the way my first ever batch, one gallon with store bought red grapes turned out pretty good after letting it sit for a couple months thanks for the advice.

A friend at church has grapes and says I can pick as many as I want, so how many lbs do I need for a six gallon batch

Ok so how do I sweeten, I have topped up and am in no real hurry. So I think I'll start a new batch but this time I'mm going to use better ingredients and try for 5 gallons and maybe when its time to bottle the second I'll taste the first

OK SO HOW DO i SWEETEN IT. i KNOW THAT i MESSED UP BY NOT TAKING THE INITIAL SG. i AM LEARNING AND i LEARN BY MY MISTAKES if I dont learn by my mistakes then I'm just more of an idiot than I think

ok I dont know where to start I got the recipe from The Winemakers Store. 6lbs. grapes, pec. enzime, yeast,c.tab., etc. I did everything the only things I didnt do was initial S.G. and I didnt use wine grapes I didnt no there was a difference. so now I got this stuff, have rack twice still in a...