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I just started a chocolate cherry port a few days ago! I did the chocolate strawberry port from the recipe here on WMT 2 years ago and everyone loved it. This time I am mostly following the same recipe but instead of strawberries I am using a can of cherries from Vintners Reserve. The can has...

Wine Expert Riesling kit. Very tasty. As good or better than every Riesling I've bought in the stores. Now I do about 1/3 kits and 2/3 homemade fruit wines.

This is one of the coolest questions I've seen posted on our forum. I want some Tongan wine.

It's been a while since I posted, but I'm still here and I still have a ton of wine aging beautifully right next to me. I recently obtained some of my grandpa's wine. My grandpa is the inspiration for how I got started in winemaking. He passed away 21 years ago. He lived down the street from...

The hibiscus is really good. It doesn't taste like wine by itself though. I drink a really sweet jamaica juice (pronounced hah-my-ee-kuh) in Mexico and I thought "maybe I should try making this into a hard hibiscus tea!" I added a whole bag of chopped gold and black raisins, which really gave...

I've had this clear 3L wine bottle (double magnum I think it's called) for a while and I've been looking to purpose it. I have a new friend who does does glass and stone etching and she offered to do a design of my choice for free on the bottle. I gave her one of my other 3L bottles as...

I bottled a few batches in December and I went with this theme for the labels.

Some of you may remember my angst begging for bottles when I first got started a few years ago. Since then I've been pretty good at having enough bottles. This past weekend I made a major score off craigslist. 79 boxes of empties - 980 bottles total. All from the same winery and they all...

I've done a Riesling and I think it was very good.

I have shrink capsules on the tops of my bottles. Although I label the bottles, I also use a permanent market to write a code (like BlB11 Blackberry 2011) for the type of wine and the year on the gold on top of the capsule. There are so many wine bottles on their sides in my wine rack, I...

Nope. This is a submersible pump only. Can you return it or exchange it? You could use it to pump water in a fountain in your yard.

I thawed 10 pounds of peaches for 1 gallon. I treated them with k-meta. Since my first post, I went ahead and did what I said I'd do - added my own yeast on top of the natural yeast. I tossed in some golden raisins and a couple of bananas. It is bubbling along happily. I'm going to check it...

I have a Portuguese.

I would like to bottle into one of my oversized bottles. It is one of the 3 liter bottles. My mother and I want to use the wine for a party where it will be entirely consumed. The inside diameter opening is 7/8 inches. It looks like the standard wine bottle opening is 3/4 (6/8) inches. What...

I am doing a single gallon batch of peach wine from scratch. I thawed my sliced peaches and I have a little over a gallon of pure juice. But when I checked it today, it had started fermenting by itself. It was sitting there for 2 days. I don't know how far along it is. I tasted it and it...

Making cheese is serious business, even on a small scale. I won't go into the details of how to come up with a delicious and successful model. However, I will give you a bit of advice. You need to invest in Quality Assurance. I have my own service that can provide you with experienced...

It's been 18 months since I opened this thread and just last week I received another batch of vanilla beans. I vacuum sealed them into 7 bags of 30 long beans each. Should keep a long time since they are dried. My previous 4 gallons of vodka were finally consumed and now I'm making more. Should...

I've wondered for a while how true this is. I read the study where the scientists gave rats massive amounts of safrole oil and they developed cancer. But I think any massive amount of oil could cause cancer too. I mean, in that study they apparently used a massive, massive amount of pure...

I stuck mine on the window of the front door to the State Capitol Building. Do I win? Just kidding... please don't vandalize with the stickers.

Everyone got stickers? I thought I was special.