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No surprise to most of you!--right??!! So as a reminder....... I bought 4 three lb. bags of frozen triple berry fruit today. Got home, set it on the kitchen counter on a large towel to absorb any moisture as it thawed. Watched the Colts put the hurt on the Texans and then had a few glasses...

I saw a video where a guy is bottling wine using a vacuum pump. He has a homemade bottle holder that uses a device that pivots on top to easily remove the stopper with the vacuum lines. I have searched high & low and can not find the video! I thought it was on YouTube, but so far I can not...

I am working on my first batch of fruit wine. My wife really likes the sweet wines, so when I added my sugar, I added more than the recipe called for. My starting SG was 1.118. All has been going well, fermentation in progress, SG dropping and is now 1.022 which is right at 12.5% ABV...

I am getting ready to bottle my first batch this evening and did a dry run with my hand corker. As I pressed the cork in and bottomed out the corker, the cork remains sticking out of the bottle about 3/8's of an inch. There is NO adjustment on the corker. I have made sure that the grips...

I am in the process of making my first wine kit. It is a Wine Expert Vintners Reserve White Zin. I followed the instructions explicitly for the amount of liquid and also walked through the complete process with many of on line forums. I filled my primary fermenting bucket to the 6 US gallon...

I am a new wine drinker and an even newer wine maker. My lovely bride of 31 years and I stopped to visit a winery last summer while on vacation in southern Indiana. The French Lick Winery in French Lick, Indiana opened our eyes (or our taste buds) to a different way of life! We had a...