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I've got a couple gallons of chardonnay concentrate from a cheapie kit that I want to play around with. The SO voted on a raspberry-mint wine with the chardonnay as a base. I'm going to use a 6.5 gallon carboy (not hedging my bets here) and wanted to see if anyone had ideas of raspberry and mint...

So they rehydrate it for you? Wow, what a practice in futility. Thanks for the heads up. That does make me wonder how much they concentrate it down to in the first hand...

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The first kit was a Cab Sauv. If I remember correctly I had to use some boiled banana mash to get the fermentation going (as it was my first kit I didn't have extra yeast on hand). I made it up to 5.5 gallons (instead of six) per some recommendations online and it still turned out thin. My major...

I was thinking of trying a Reserve Du Chateau Chardonnay from Amazon and wanted to see if anyone had any input on these kits. My first 2 kits were Vino Italiano's by the same company (the chardonnay was good after some doctoring, the red was pretty bad, even after 2 years) but since then...

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After some digging I found year-old premium corks on eBay for a good price: http://www.ebay.com/itm/WINE-CORKS-two-inch-9-TOP-GRADE-/160703570926?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item256aade3ee#ht_873wt_1037 I'll just have to give them some soaking time. Also, Amazon has 1000 #9 longs for $72...

:a1 know off the top of their heads the cheapest place to buy wine corks online? Specifically, 100-500 #9 1x5/6+ any material (probably won't make it past 3 years).

First Apfelwein I just had my first taste of Ed Wort's Apfelwein. I pitched the yeast on January 3rd, 2011 and left it in the carboy until yesterday, when I bottled it into wine bottles. I was a good boy and gave it over 8 months of aging without tasting a drop. :db OH MY GOD! I have 30...

I don't like my skeeter pee as sweet as the original recipe calls for. I ended up adding 1 cup of real sugar and 1 cup of stevia to 6.5 gallons and it's tasted pretty dang good.

I'm thinking of backsweetening my SP with Stevia. Does anyone else have any experience using artificial sweeteners in SP? What tastes the best, and how much did you use (I ask this because with some artificial sweeteners, a little can go a LONG ways). What if you threw in some of these guys...

I just wanted to share this with others. My lemon juice had all three types of preservatives in it, so I was worried about getting it going without a yeast cake. I made it up to 6.5 gallons, so I upped all the ingredients on Lon's site by a factor of 1.3. 125oz 100% lemon juice 9.1 lbs of...

I would make it up to 5-5.5 gallons and perhaps add some banana mash. I've done that with a red VI kit before and the results were decent. Note that this will raise the ABV to about 12 or so. You could also make it up to 5.5 gallons and backsweeten with some welches concentrate for more...

There are very few things things I like less in my wine than shards of glass, so I think I'll toss 'em. It's really hard for me to get used wine bottles in my area: I've had some luck with freecycle, but Craigslist has not worked and contacting restaurants/wineries has also been fruitless. There...

And if so, which one? Thanks!

Ordered and on the way with 2-day shipping. I'll let you know how it works.

I just racked a cheap Vino Italiano Chardonnay kit from the primary to my carboy and tried a taste of the preliminary result and the wine is much too watery/thin for my liking. Fermentation has already ceased. Is there anything I can do at this point? With some of the cheaper kits I normally...