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So I came up with my own recipe for cherry limeaid not using any soda. I put it all together and got the s.g. to 1.071. Started fermenting and added a little nutrient and energizer ala skeeter pee. It continued fermentation and then just stopped cold at 1.018. It still yeilds an alcohol...

Ok, I have never made a F-Pak. I have 6 gallons of strawberry wine going into clearing today. It also has red grape concetrate. Here is the recipe I used. How do you make an f-pak and how much more strawberries should I need to make one? Recipe. 30 lbs of frozen strawberries 750 ml of red...

Ok, I've made a couple batches of wine. A kit pinot noir, a kit cab sav, and a from scratch strawberry (using fresh strawberries). All of them have the same issue if you will. They all have the same after taste to them. Its hard to say exactly what the the taste is though. It has some sort...

I made a three gallon batch of stawberry wine using honey as a sweetener over the summer. I just pulled a sample to taste. I've never had a wine or mead using honey. The strawberry flavor isn't bad but its followed by a almost whiskeyish after tatse. Is that how a mead taste or did I go...

I just transferred my strawberry and degassed it. I did a taste test. I can't even describe the flavor. My wifes description was a cheap wine cooler. We used honey as the sweetener. Has anyone who has made a strawberry wine had this experience? Main ingrediants. 22lbs starwberries...

I'm starting a CELLAR CRAFT SHOWCASE 18 LITER SHIRAZ kit here sometime this week. It calls for adding warm water to add some ingrediants and a total of about 5L's of total water. My questions is about the water I add. Should I boill the water then let it cool of just add warm tap water...

I was thinking about using red grape concentrate in the following formula. Red grape concentrate 5 lbs of cherries vanilla bean French oak chips pectic enzyme for 3 gallons yeast nutrient for 3 gallons campden tablets 3 This is an off the wall idea I hought might be interesting to...

If yeast beomes stressed, what negative effects does it have on the wine? I'm getting an off smell from the wine, its not rotten egg nor finger nail polish remover. Is there correct action that can be taken or is it something that will go away?

Strawberry wine from hell. 3 gallon batch Ok, I had low SO2 so I added 2 campden tablets in room temp water. Now 3 days later I checked my S.G. and its at 1.00 so I figure its time to transfer to my carboy. So I check my SO2 level again and its at 11 mg/l again. So it would make me think...

I'm going to head the advise of someone here and try to add more fruit. Today the fermentation took off though. Can I still add fruit? Do I have to do somehting special to sanitize the fruit first? Should I add pectic enzyme again? Holy crap I'm in over my head....

So I've read the ph/SO2 power point a couple of times and just want to confirm what my targets should be. The way I read it, it is a combination of ph level and SO2 reading. With my test kit I should be trying to get a reading between of 39 mg/L reading correct? My ph is around 3.5. I...

I started a batch of strawberry wine. I added the followin for the recipe. 14 lbs strawberries 3 gallons water 3 campden tablets 6 lbs of honey 4.5 teaspoons of acid blend 3/8 teaspoon of tannin I add everything except the acid blend up front. Then took PH reading to add the...

When using honey as a sweetener, how do you add the honey? Do you just dump it into the must or do you need to boil it in the water before adding it to the must? The last strawberry wine I made it said to boil the water then pour that over the strawberries to extract the flavor. Is that...