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Looking to end my losing streak in life with a win at something! Liked on Facebook and shared the link there too!

Sorry everyone! I've been out of it for a while, working multiple jobs (sometimes as many as 3 in a day!). The pinot came out great! I'm about to try a Vinter's Reserve kit now, and start some more skeeter pee ;)

Turned out great! I actually opted to use sugar over honey this time around, but the green tea worked better than I thought. I definitely want to try a mead version in the future. I was lucky enough to come across some Squirt bottles from the late 60's to bottle it in, so it looks pretty cool...

Bottled my concord yesterday. Sent a couple of bottles home to my father. He and the step-mom loved it, likening it to their favorite sweet wines. Looks like I'll have to start another batch soon...

I just keep socking away $20. Eventually I spend it on something. I'm about ready to spend what I have now on a few more carboys and ingredients for my next venture...

Yeah, why would you leave your $450 bottles somewhere easily pocketed? Even having $50 - $75 bottles out could be dangerous.

I've read this one before, and liked it then just as much as I do now :D

For an extra $20, you could probably get a plumber to make a house call and ensure that it's done right the first time, as opposed to having a $60 tool on hand that you may never use again. I'd look into it further, but it appears to me that you've done all the research you need -- you just...

I was reading up on this as well. Most bottles will take a #8 with a hand corker just fine. Many say that if you have a floor corker, the #9 is best as it give it that much more of a seal, but don't bother trying to with a hand corker.

Be sure to like them on facebook and enter for your chance to win a vacuum transfer wine pump! Welcome to the forums, I've found this to be a great group from all walks!

B&WS - looks awesome! I highly recommend that you look into an organic alternative to Roundup. Not only is the herbacide harmful to groundwater, the company that makes it (Monsanto) is inherently evil. Check out these pages for alternatives: Long (but good) read, recipe for organic herbacide

There is no need to apologize! We are all learning here (even the more experienced makers learn something new now and then!)

Curious before I even venture into this point, but is there a trick to labeling the bottles so that they are all even and at the same point on the bottle?

Good luck Boatboy24! Be sure to keep paper towels and cleaning supplies handy. Hopefully you won't need them, but better safe than sorry!

Ahh the benefits of hindsight. Arne brings a good point -- I've had some wine volcanos occur in my basement. It's a mess to clean up, and can get everywhere. It's amazing how your memory only lends to remember all the good things, and forget the bad.

What was the SG when you started? SG will decrease as fermentation takes place because the yeast takes the sugar and converts it into alcohol and carbon dioxide. This will cause the SG to go down, as alcohol is lighter than water.

Age, alcohol percentage, temperature (too cold, too hot), anti-microbial additives. I'm sure there are more.

When your local brewstore doesn't have what you need, check online! Shipping can be negligible compared to the cost of gasoline these days.

I agree with grapeman, the rule of thumb is to add typically 1 tablet for each gallon when racking, but I've read and noticed that many people begin to shave that number down as the racking continues to avoid having too many sulfites.

I'm wanting to make a triple-crossover here -- Lemon + Tea for an Arnold Palmer - like flavoring, green tea + honey for the herbal effect, and of course the honey makes it a mead. Okay, after looking over some other mead recipes and a few other threads on some unnamed website that specifically...