Have not made any meads but looking for just a plain sweet mead to mix with a few wines. Riesling 30% mead 70% and a few others. Basic mead recipe for just a mead needed.
Ok ordered some juices from finger lakes. Have niagra juice coming and want this to finish sweet with out and f-pack so back sweeting will not be an option here. Need a yeast that will kill it self say around 12-14% alco this way I can start with a sweeter must and and end up with sugar left over.
My wonderful kids know I love my small vineyard so today in the mail I received this. Work has kept me away from the forum but not wine making or drinking.
Ok waiting on my buckets of juice and have been thinking ( yes I know thats a bad thing lol ) I have 3 Chardonnay coming and all with be placed in a 100Lt tank and thinking of Starting yeast will be standard D47 but a few days into it Im thinking of adding BA11 to help bing out other flavors...
Wine Supply place in a small little town in Jessup, PA. Have pasted this place a 1000 times always thought they sold wine. Well today I read a sign out front that said something about supplies so I stopped. I am so glad I did as I was getting ready to buy Chilean Buckets from my one place but he...
Started this the other day, 75Lbs of Frozen Strawberry, Peach, Mango, and Pineapple. Should be about 8 gallons. Smells amazing!! All bought thru Aldi's was on sale for $1.50Lbs was $1.99 so I bout 100lbs:)
Freezer has burnt compressor so was thinking about sticking my concord outside. Here is the weeks forcast.
THU
41°F
20°F
Winds gradually subsiding and colder; rather cloudy with a snow shower around
FRI
26°F
12°F
Cloudy, windy and colder with a...
bites, no fresh grapes or juice no fresh fruit.. Really hate the east coast.. Need something to fill my tanks but nothing strikes me... Hmmm in a slump. But I did start a 3 gallong batch of Starburst..
Well the wife want a new frig so I took the old compressor for the wine room.. Tested and works great now to pipe the room. Figure 4 tappings 1 for filtering 1 for degassing and 2 spares...
Back in March 2012 I made Welch's concord from concentrate and was not happy with it was very very tart, so Ive left it alone. Resampled in oct in yuck. Well was in wine room this morning and for the heck of it I sampled and OMG it has come a full 180 degree's!!! Tartness is gone and has a nice...
Ive trid just pitching it rehydrating it and no activity at all. Says best at 59 to 68 degree's so fermentors is at 66 degrees. No drop in readings.. Dammn have 7 packs of it in fridge, Had issue with in in my last batch of skittles wine as well...