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I've been making fruit wines since last winter. Only one of my final bottled wines was bad. Not spoiled, just bad (white welche's wine... no flavor). So, last spring when my mom mentioned that she had a grape vine growing decoratively in her yard and they'd never done anything with the...

OK, i'm about 9 months into my fruit wine experience. I've made some fruit wines that were pretty good. Skeeter Pee, a lemon wine that is a more traditional wine than skeeter pee, blackberry jam wine, a couple welches varieties (my white welch's was the only "bad" wine I've made so far) and...

So a few weeks ago I bottled my first wine, 4 gallons of skeeter pee. I've been enjoying it since. The other night I opened a bottle and it tasted funny. No lemony taste. Not as refreshing. Huh. I was concerned that I'd bottled poorly or made some other error. Then I recalled that I'd...

First off, sorry if concentrates go under juice buckets, I wasn't sure. Has anyone made Cabernet (or other reds) from the concentrate HomeWinery.com sells? They seem to be an amazing deal for a product that is supposed to make 5 gallons. Would it be better to concentrate it to 3 gallons for...

Just started into wine making about 5 weeks ago. Shortly after starting I found the skeeter pee recipe. I was just taking my concord wine off the slurry so I started a skeeter pee. Tonight I backsweetened and held out a tall glass for immediate use (Sunday is my Saturday). This is GREAT...

I've got 3 gallons of concord wine that I racked into secondary 6 days ago. It's using 1118 yeast. I'm still getting a few bubbles, but not much. If I rack it tonight will the slury still have enough active yeast to drop in the 5 gallons of SP I prepared last night or should I do a new start...

Hello, everyone. I'm new here, but I'm really excited about wine making. I started just over 3 weeks ago and now have 3 batches of juice becoming wine :) I was thinking about something that would be good for summer on hot days. Something that would be good cool and would be refreshing...