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Has anyone seen a crossover chart to compare commercial popular wines to Winexpert kits?, or does anyone have a suggestion of a W E kit that would come very close to the Folie A Deux Winery's "Menage A' Trois" Red Wine? ---We have made 9 Island Mist kits and3 "real wine" kits, and most of our...

I think this is gonna be so cool........ I found this picture of ME and have since cropped it and place it as the back lable on all of our bottles titled " It's in the genes" Us little Sicilians from Minnesota start early---------who knew...

I have a question about steaming...... I was slicing up the apples, freezing them for about a week, and then steaming them for frozen juice to be used later.---Now I also have applesthat havefrozen on the tree, but are now looking a little soft, or tan-ish ( light brown), are they too far...

I will repeat a quote I heard in Amway once: " if you beat your head against the wall long enough, your ears will pop out, and you can hear what the experts are saying!" Because I now know the wisdom of the forum quote" an empty carboy is nobody's playground"so I am picking up 2 more 6.5's and 3...

I just tried using a steamer juicer on some cherries from my three trees, and was wondering, does the steam dilute the resulting juice to any extent that now that I have this juice, do I have to boil off the water a little( like maple syrup) or can I just freeze it in gallon zip locks until I...

Say Guys and Gals, I have been admiring some of the label designs that have been posted. And I was wondering if there is a minimum requirement , for personal use,for the information needing to be on the lable, Like maybe name of wine, maker of wine, and ABV, because I see that some of the labels...

We have 4 winexpert kits under our belt now,( Island Mists)another one started (Liebfraumilch) and two other homade batches also. My question is concerning the instructions on all the WE kits that we do....all the steps say to " sanitze all equipment, THEN RINSE". From what I have seen on most...

I need the advice of a Dandelion wine expert. And topping it off I only have two volumes of carboys available to me for my two 4.5 gallon batches of Dandelion wine.( stupidly, I chose two different yeasts ) Right now, they have been racked to both of my 6.5 gallon carboys because I wasn’t...

I picked up a 5 gallon carboy this weekend at a steal! 3.00!<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Just what I needed because I only have 2 6.5 gallon carboys and I have two batches at 4.5 gallons that I will need advice on in another post. Anyways, this...

I was going to start a WE Island mist Kiwi Pear, and was wondering if I could use tap water. We have well water that is softened --do I need to worry about the purity and possible sodium from softening?The faucet that I would be getting it from is also filtered through an Amway water filter...

I saw a post a while ago from Polish Princess on a rhubarb recipie. I was wondering what parts of the recipies I might not need for either rhubarb or plum wine if I try to extract the juice using the steamer juicer? I recently aquired a cheap aluminum one on e-bay and am chomping at the bit to...

Any thoughts about me using 1 gallon pickle jars ( sanitized) for my one gallon carboys if I drilled a hole in the cover for a grommet to fit an airlock? The only thing I can think of is that the cover is made of steel, and maybe the acids or chemicals from sanitizing might get to the steel.

Is there something going on here that I don't know about? Seems that our three cats (me wifey's) and our two puppys get into everything in the house, tip stuff over, play in the planted pots, etc. But when it comes to venturing near "Winemaking central" or our " winemaking room"----O.K. so...

When I was fighting to get my top on the primary fermentor and then had to take it back off, the K-meta that I had in the airlock got sucked into the fermentor and ,of coarse ,into the must. It did this twice on me--and I garantee---will NOT happen again! But will this affect, or hurt the yeast...

I just finished with a heck of a very helpfull session from wade, appleman and touchtoomuch on my previous post concerning dandelion wine problems. But my new topic is about the 6.5 gallon carboys that I will be using when it comes time to rack my dandelion wine. I only have these two...

I am trying to start Dandelion wine from scratch, and I am pouring over 30 recipies that I got on Jack Keller's site. What is the purpose of Tanin and Peptic enzyme, and what does it do during production? I bought some tanin just to have on hand but do not have Peptic anyways. Also, I have it...

I am going to try makingDandelion wine this Memorial Day weekend, and was wondering which one of the two yeasts that I have on hand I should use. I prefer sweet wines.My two choices are the LALVIN 71B-1122 or the D 47. I have not picked a recipie yet but I printed out a 30 choice list from a...

I am going to try making apple wine this Memorial Day weekend, and was wondering which one of the two yeasts that I have on hand I should use. I prefer sweet wines.My two choices are the LALVIN 71B-1122 or the D 47. I have not picked a recipie yet but I printed out a 30 choice list from a Jack...

Quick question before I bottle. I will be bottling some Island Mist here shortly and I wanted to find an answer to a sanitising question. I have both the ONE STEP cleaner and just bought some Potas. Meta bisulfate( K- Meta?) should I clean my equipment and bottles with the one step and then...

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