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Hi All, My son and I have a difference of opion on our lables and he wanted some outside opinions on the subject. Heres the one I like. Fromhere he was trying to explode the peach a bit, so he came up with this.The abv% needs to be adjusted to 18.86 per Masta.

Math Questions, Why does the hydrometer Potential Alcohol Content % go from: 1.000 = 0.0 .995= -0.7 .990 = -1.3 .985 = -2.6 .980 = -1.9 ...heres the first question second Question: If you started the sg at 1.090 and went down to 0.980 what is your abv% Third question...

Allways learning. I Cooked up a all fruit (pineapple. orange, strawberry, apple and bannana 100% juice concoction) plus some cranberrys, bannans, strawberrys and grapes real fruit,.. Starting sg 1.090....plus added some strawberry bannana juice to it later to bump up the sg about 7 moreon the...

Ok, So much for the high alcohol content if it has to taste this Dry. I backed sweeteneda all fruit wine with a lot of sugar (cup per gallon) and it still tase really bad (15% abv). Been bottled about 5 days and Im wondering If its going to lose that bad dry taste after it sits in the bottle...

This has probably been discussed a lot. But anyway I dont have a thief or a thief testeryet, so im still doing it the old fashion way, of just dropping the hydrometer into the corboy. I have read treads where in some cases its hard to retrieve. So i tied dental floss around the top part of...

Hi all, Heres the deal, Crazzy fruit concoction, all kinds of stuff and fruit concentrates in it,been frementing like crazy for a long time. Started at 1.090 now at .990 and still going strong...Yuk,, as dry as a piece of chalk on a cold day.( thats dryI think...hhehe) p.s Dont know what...

Hi all, In thinking of all the things I need to investigate for making a batch of Cherry Mead, I realized that I've not yet seen what the starting Sg of mead should be. Since I've never tasted mead I dont know what the potential alcohol should be. Is it prefered to be low, medium or a high...

I have three Cans of 49 oz. OregonCherry Puree, I would like to make into a mead using sams club Honey. I dont know anything about Mead but the ideal of using it for sugar sounds very tempting. Looking for Ideals, all I got so far is to add puree and water and honey till I get an sg of say...

Hello everyone, started my peach wine nov 30th. Starting sg was 1.090 using champagn yeast. It was slow the whole time got down to 1.034 and I added nutrients and engerizer and two lbs or so of sugar raising the sg to 1.056 now back down to 1.036 and racked it again and now its totally...

Hello all, Its day 12 sinceI started my Peach Puree, seems like its taking forever. around day 8 it was a sg of 1.06 so I went ahead and racked it to the corboy just to get rid of some of the waste in the bottom of the bucket, and then put it back in the bucket. Its know down to 1.05 or a...

George printed me out some nice labels when I bought my first kit, you wet the backside and stick it to the bottle kind of Label. They seemed to workwell so far butIwas wondering for my next batch should I buy (and where) the same kind of paper or go to the office depot type of store and buy...

I was over a beer Makers house for Halloween last night, and between door bell rings we were discussing the differences between beer making and wine making (what little I've learned so far).One of the bigger issues we had was he says you never use pure cane sugar in beer becuase itenvolks...

Hi guys, Just wondering is topping off necessary when removing a cup out of the top of the corboy, I have about 6 days left till bottling, its the Apple mist wine. thanks