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Well I just found out today that my wifes grandfather has a Mirabelle tree. Im wanting to make a wine, but have only a 15g demijon. Am gonna buy 3-4 5g plastic Obi pails(lol no homedepot here), and try and natural ferment(Use only the yeast on the fruit skins) any one have any luck with...

I was tought that k-meta and campden tabs were the same thing. the tabs were better for doing small batches, as it is 1 tab per gal. as k-met is 1/4 tsp(i think) per 5-6 gal. Someone please tell me if this info is false, but thats the way it was explained to me.

My mother in law just brought me a bottle of that last week. It was good, to sweet for my liking but good all the same. Guess the kind she got me is quite costly as well(wont tell me how costly, just that it was expensive)

Scrub my last post. I made a red currant/strawberry wine. It was not as clear as i would have liked, and was a lil hot(as i did not scrimp on the abv). made 3g and it was adored by all my friends during the going away festivities. could have been one of my best if only time had been my...

Well i Made it. Just moved to Germany. Been here 3 wks now. Cant w8 to get set up for wine. At my home in the states(gowanda ny) i grew red currants, went in a grocery store here the other day and they had currants in the produce section. Tons of fruit to chose from in my area of...

+1 floor corker definitly a good thing to have.

sorry shameless bump. Official moving date is sept 17 though(unless something else goes wrong)

My buddy wants to make a batch of watermelon wine 2day, all we have in the house is champagne yeast. Never used that yeast for anything other than raging beer, so im not sure of how this will turn out as a wine. Any imput as to flavors? should it turn out fine?

Brewing software will help you make a more rounded beer and take alot of guess work outa things. There are tons of em out there. I have promash($9.99 i think) or go to our sister site homebrewtalk.com in the one forum(brewing software) there is a link for a good free one called brewtarget.

Looks like I will be mving to Germany the end of August. Any wine makers on here fom the Fankfurt/ Giessen area? Looking like it will be to costly to move my equipment, so I will be starting over again. Hopin that someone on this site is from near there and can recommend good places to buy...

I decided not to make the wine. to much other stuff going on between tending hops plants and preping house for sale and move(and sons grad party). so the strawberries are gonna get mixed with some other alcohol and made into a slushi smoothie drink thing for swmbo.

sctochbrite(i think) pads if you dont want to use a razor blade. you know those green abrasive pads for dishes and cleaning. they work well for the leftove glue as well.

B-Brite cleaner seems to do a great job on all the bottles i have done, beer and wine. Hve never kept track of soak times but seemed pretty fast. Put cleaner in sink fill with water, insert bottles walk away and play with the 3.5yr old come back all fall off with light application with...

This is why like with beer, I account for this loss and have like a 1/2 g over my desired volume. this way after all loss Im usually right at my desired volume(or over :) over is good)

my buddy got into wine 1 batch b4 me, at bottling time we used the 2lever corker that kmae with his kit. After doing that once I said f this and got a floor corker, I have a bad shoulder and the ease of the floor unit waaaaay ofset the $ for the unit. That being said, some of the 2 lever...

Well I dont drink wine all that often but when I do its usually 1-2 750ml servings. 6-12 beers daily. Do shots of blackberry brandy count?

I have 6 red currant bushes, and 40 hops plants. lol I know wine making stuff. hmmmmmm wonder how hops wine would be.

so on the last pic the lil flowerish thing is the bloom bud? How long do you pinchthose off for? first couple years? Also while I understand harvest varies, if I have an area where I can plant 6-7 vines is it conceviable to get enough to make 1-2 5g batches of wine?

Sry just realized i gave bad info. RO is fine, its distiled water yyou dont want to use unless you are adding stuff to mimic a water profile.

If your water(before softner) tastes good use it. RO is not recommended(however it can be used) unless you plan on adding stuff to mimic the water of the region the beer style comes from. Spring water is recommended when to many questions arise. From my understanding it is generally not the...