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How long is yeast good for? I have a couple of packages in my fridge that are a yearor soold. Is it safe to use them?

I just bottled my first batch. It's a batch of rhubarb and I need some help help figuring my alchohol content... if possible. It started out with an SG of 1.090 and fermented out to .996. I got nervouses about how fast it fermented out.... so I added another 1 pound of sugar (to 2 gallons of...

Not that I'm proud... but since I had my camera out I thought I'd post a couple pics of the black rot on my grape so you all can see how nasty it is . These vines have had the disease for as long as I remember. I'ver never really made a big effort to cleanthem up, other then spraying with a...

I starteda 3 gal. batch of blueberryyesterday with wild Maine blueberries. I checked the SG before adding the yeast tonight and it read 1.130. It looks so good... I hate tomess this up.Is there anything I should do to dilute the sugar?

Sorry to keep asking silly questions ... but I figure I'll never learn if I don't ask. I think I may have screwed up again. I just racked my rhubarb from the primary to the secondary. The first reading I did,the SG was 1.090. I did another reading before I racked it and it was .996. Since my...

I've been pouring my hydrometer test samples back into the batch. Now -I read that you should to toss each sample out to avoid contamination. It seems like a lot of waste to me.... especially if you're only working with one or 2 gallonsof wine.IfI take precautions to sanitize before every test...

Hi everyone. I just started with wine making this spring and have lots of stupid questions I will need help with. Istarted a gallon batch with frozen raspberries yesterday. I had the berries in amesh bag, added the water, sugar, pectic enzyme, acid blend, nutrient and campden. Today was add...