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Quick question for you steam juicer winemakers: Do you use straight juice or cut with water? Bought a family member a Mehu Liisa and they are covered up with Concord grapes and want to make some wine along with all the jelly.

Hey Montyfox, The wine looks great! Raspberry is my favoritefruit wine.

Hey Handy, Raspberry has always been a favorite wine for me. I've made 2 separate batches and both were excellent. My next batch will be strictly from concentrate. Check out this place. I've used their Raspberry, Cherry, and Concord concentrates and every batch was wonderful...

I love them! Do you turn your own stuff?

Hey Appleman, Loved the video! I helped pick my sister's crop this year and the Cayuga was a real hit! The Poor Man's Riesling.

jcnoren, Thanks for clarifying; I didn't realize the bag was in a pail. Siphoning would be a good idea in this situation.

Thanks Masta, But originally,I wouldpour a bowl of k-meta and fill all the bottles I planned on corking and then counted out that amount of corks and dump them in and begin corking. After noticing the tightness and finding comments on this forum, I changed to filling the bottles and...

jcnoren, That is a great idea! Here is another great idea from our old friend Smurfe: http://www.finevinewines.com//Wiz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1136 Scroll down to the part where he adds the juice. This might be helpful too.

Kaluba, Winter is quickly approaching and fresh fruit is hard to find and very expensive when you do find them. Concentrates will produce very good wine. Check out this site: http://www.brownwoodacres.com/. I have made wine from the Tart Cherry, Red Raspberry, and the Concord...

Maybe I'm off-base here, but I would think you would treat raisins just likefresh grapes. When you crushgrapes for wine making, you don't ferment them whole, and you don't pulverize them. You only need to break the skin; the yeast will do the rest. I have made wine using whole and minced raisins...

Northern, I found one of these tools at my local wine store and got it half price. No, you don't have to use it in the sink, but you will likely get some residual sloshing around. The nice thing about this device is the small amount of solution you use. You put a couple of cups in and...

Kaluba, To answer your question about the ingredients needed, that is debatable. Some people do not use campden tabs or K-meta in this type of juice before initial fermentation, but some use it anyway. My experience has been that these juices are usually low in acid, so I add acid blend to...

Kaluba, I have returned so many "Rabbit" style openers from Bed, Bath and Beyond that they have a supply of them behind the return counter to save me time . I finally learned a trick to prevent destroying the cork puller: If you are attempting to open a bottle and the cork seems tight from...

Thanks guys! Sorry so late for the reply, but the wishes are appreciated.

Eric, I would never add everclear to a grape wine unless I was going for a port. I'd bottle it and let it develop for a year or so.

What fresh fruits are available to you right now? Berry wine is very good. Apple wine is popular on this board. Muscadine is good too.my favorite fruit wine is raspberry, but I enjoy peach too. Let us know what you decide.

daht, To answer yourquestion, I don't believe that eliminating 12 ounces of grape concentrate will result in going from extremely sweet to semi-sweet in 5 gallons of wine(my opinion). As has been recommended in previous posts, a hydrometer is a "must" for wine making! One mistake that...

Appleman, I'm a political junkie, but I draw the line at giving my homemade wine for the benefit of a bunch of politicians! Maybe a huge bottle of Pepto would be more appropriate for the occasion. Just kidding

Ramona, I have had the pleasure of Waldo's famous Muscadine wine myself. I took it to my sister's home. Her husband has a 40 acre vineyard and makes some pretty good wine himself. Everyone expected a syrupy sweet, grapey wine, but that is not what they tasted! Waldo's Muscadine is lightly...

Jobe/Waldo, A friend of mine in New Mexico makes prickly pear wine regularly. The first time he tried not burning the spines off,all went well until he sampled it for the first time and got a terrible burning sensation in his throat. Needless to say he drank some spines from the pears. The...