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I am getting ready to make a 5 gal recipe of peach wine. I called today and found out that fresh peaches are selling for $40 per bushel ( ouch!). I am planning on making 5 gal of wine out of 5 gal of steamed juice and 1 gal of water. I want to make sure there is 5 gal in the secondary when I...

I worry about everything but I am trying to make an excellent wine. Today as I checked all my airlocks, I found a dead ant in the water inside the air lock. These are in bulk storage so the airlocks are completely still. The type of airlock that I am using is the one with the floating plastic...

I am currently reading a winemaking book where the author says that one should never use any dishwashing detergent when washing up the primary fermenter and secondary fermenter, Or any wine making equipment that touches the wine. He says to use hot water as hot as one can stand to work with. He...

I have been making my Wines from fruit juice that I obtain by using a steamer Juicer. My question is how many times and at what intervals in the winemaking process should I be using sulfites? thanks for your response.

In Mr. Berry's book on Winemaking he makes the following comment when he talks about going from the fermenter to racking the first time into the carboy. He says that if you come up short you need to add water or additional must to top up the carboy after the first racking. He said that he second...

I steamed out 4 gallons of pure steamed strawberry Juice from fresh strawberries. Just for the heck of it I checked the SG of the juice and came up with 1.02. I took a gallon of water and heated it and added 10 pounds of sugar stirring until it was 100% melted. When that cooled I added that to...

I started a 5 gal carboy of Apple wine back in october of last year. How long should I age it not to be into it too early? I can wait. I just don't want to be dissapointed just because I got into it too early. Thanks,

How long should I wait before I back sweeten?

I am getting ready to make 5 Gal of strawberry wine out of steamed juice. The only recipe that I can find is not with steamed juice. Should I try to make it with pure steamed juice or should I add water? Any help would be appreciated.

Several weeks ago I took off the airlocks off of three carboys filled to the neck with wine. It was about 6 months old and looking good. I plugged the carboys with rubber stoppers and really tried to put them in tight. My problem is that all three carboys look like they have lost about a full...

I am getting ready to make a recipe of strawberry wine from steamed strawberry juice. My recipe calls for 18 pounds of ripe strawberries for a 5 gal run. However, this recipe is a recipe that is based on actual fruit and not juice. How much juice would you folks recommend to make a good flavored...

Have any of you long time winemakers ever made wine from Delaware grapes? Can you give me your experience please?

If you visit Gatlinburg TN in the future, you can actually see a white lightning still in operation. You can view the operation and actually taste samples from the still. They have pure white lightning (100 Proof) that is *******ed 6 times and sells for $35 per quart, they have corn liquor (100...

All of my wine is in bulk storage and I am not going to bother it until it is about a year old. Right now I am buying wine for drinking ($$$). Here is my question. Most of the wine that I am buying has about a 12% alcohol content printed on the label. Some wines that I drink are like drinking...

I saw this term used on one of the posts. Never heard the term Inverted Sugar before:?

I have three 5 gal carboys that I will hopefully be bottling sometime in the future. Since I am planning to consume all the wines here on this hilltop farm I am planning to bottle it all in 1 gallon jugs. Is there any drawbacks to going to one gallon glass jugs?Does it age better in bottles or jugs?

I recently degassed my wine by using the degassing tool powered by my drill driver. I spun it for several minutes spinning the tool in both directions reciprocating forward and reversing. I did not see any gas bubbles or foaming like you can see in the videos. Can I assume that my wine is...

I am using a Senior Air Lock from ECKrause. The senior air lock is a three piece Air Lock which consist of the following parts: 1.Perforated Cap to let air out and keeps critters out. 2.Floating plastic bubble where gas is captured until it releases 3. Container bowl and stem that inserts...

I racked my three carboys ( apple, muscadine and scuppernong) today for the final time. Everything turned out good ( I guess) . My final SG looked good. The wine is about three months old and the apple and the scuppernong tasted ok for new wine. The muscadine was a little sour for me. I have not...

Wine making is a great hobby but it so noneventful and slow. You can't, or I should say, I can't make a fermenter of wine every week or I would soon be overrun with Carboys and equipment. I go by my building where I keep my wine and look at it each day with anticipation of how it will taste when...