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Many recipes call for raisins and I would like to know what is their purpose in these recipes. Bijoy

I would like to know how many bottles yield one can get out of a 23 lit kit. I seem to get only 29 bottles and a half. The Ken Ridge kits do not recommend topping up in the carboy. At the make your own wine places they get 31 bottles out of the same 23 litres. I am a bit confused. I...

I plan to make a Cabernet Sauvignon from WE and if I started it and had it moved to the carboy after 10 days could I go away for a month and hope to not affect the process in any way?

I started my White Zin from the WE 4 week kit. I am afraid the inital temp was lower than what was reqiured. now I am 2 days into fermentation and the temp is only 65 deg F. Is this okay? I can see some activity but very little. What should I do to increase the temp.? I do have the primary...

I tried soaking the bottles in a plastic bin with hot water to which I added a dash of bleach. I let it soak for about a half hour and I could peel off many of the labels from the bottles. The persistant ones I scratched a bit to expose the glue and resoaked to get them off the bottles. I used a...