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I figured this was the best place to post this question.. I need to make some bee food. It calls for apple cider vinegar. I need to oven dry the sugar blocks before I put it on the hives. Do I need to worry about turning my still fermenting wine into vinegar while the sugar blocks dehydrate...

Pre ferment K-menta OD I big think I have blundered big time....In my haste to get a variety fruit wine started I must have not washed all of the K-menta out of the primary. As I stirred the rest of the ingredients in I did notice a strong smell of it. I already had the yeast re-hydrated so I...

I have a bit over 2 gallons of sugarwater/honey that i extracted this fall. I cannot sell it as honey and it's too late to feed it back to the bees. I was thinking of making a mead. Have any of you used not quite honey as a base? if so what adjustments to a recipe did you make? When i tasted...

Just finished the fruit press. Updated with after pics Here it is. We pressed 5 lbs of Riverbank grapes (with stems) and got a about a quart of juice Is this normal for a SG when you press? It was plenty of fun and I found the weak spot in the press....The hardwood dowel...

I am making Rhubarb from juice. The juice is about 3 months old (canned but one was canned poorly) I had one jar that was 1/2 full and without noticing the mold on the top of it i dumped it into the pail. And yes it was the last jar to be added. I skimmed off the large chunks of mold but...

Who used all of their cleaning supply's to try to get the goooo out of their carboys left over from Elderberries and then thought LETS TRY VEGGIE OIL it's a cleaning solution right? I don't know who but thanks for your outside of the box thinking :b Thanks Steve

Anyone else heading to Warren Wi cran fest? this weekend? The Mrs and I are planning a trip to the Cranberry Fest in Warren Wi. Gonna pick up some (plenty) of cranberries / juice for future batches

I have always like this one (a good read) I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, sweet feed it on corn for a few weeks, then butcher it and eat it. Yum! Corn-fed venison. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. Since they congregate at my cattle feeder...

I have read that Elderberry's have a strong flavor. We did use a steamjuicer on our 20-30 lbs of berries. (I lost the sheet that had our exact amount of lbs.) Being that it is in juice form now how many gallons of juice to use for a 6 gallon batch? I just don't want to add any "extra" juice...

Last year I had to thin out an acquired concord grape vine. Whoever owned the house prior must not have pruned it for a while. After doing some reading and watching some videos I thinned it out. There is plenty of foliage but as of 7/15 I don't see any grape clusters. I don't think I stressed it...

It was a hurry up and get the things together night. I decided to rack off our strawberry and start a batch of SP. I followed a recipe from a SP site EXCEPT the times. I did simmer the lemon juice in hopes that the preservatives would boil off. We used Real lemon as suggested but couldn't find...

The wife and I went looking for raspberries. We also found a few other berries we don't have a clue about. Heres one that I think I saw here before. I don't think it's good for you! THis one was growing on a vine Here is what the Mrs thinks are Blackberries The color is throwing me off...

WOW It's was like I was 5 and got a new toy. I gathered up some hose and started playin. I started off by degassing two carboys that have been ready for some time now. Then to here to find a pic of the hose routing for racking. And yep started racking the rest Oh what fun...

Pocket Taser Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife.. A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Taser for their anniversary submitted this: Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a...

A lot of the posts I have read refer to K meta and Potassium Sorbate being needed at bottling time. I didn't read them until I bottled 10 gallons. Now I'm worried!!! These are the steps we took while making our first two batches: 1)followed the recipe (maybe adding more/less fruit)...

While my wine making took up the majority of the counter top space in the kitchen the Mrs was getting more and more sick of it. So the solution was to move it all to the basement. We made a trip to Menards to purchase a few more lower cabinets and a few uppers. We have the lowers almost done...

I have been lurking for a bit now. Heres a little info: First of all: THANK YOU to all of you that take the time to post your knowledge for us newbies to learn from. In October my wife and I acquired a house that has a Concord grape vine in the back yard. Humm.... Lets make wine! We...