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I'm looking to grow some hops this season and I'm looking ahead to plan my growing. Problem is I can't plant in the yard because I rent my house. So my idea is to grow in a 55 gal barrel. I could buy premium soil and mulch and what not for it this way as well if needed. Its my first time so let...

Tomorrow is Dec 21! Lol. If the world really was goin to end, what does your last day consist off? Mine is just my last exam in college for the semester, then a 2 hour drive to the family through a snow storm. Yup that's right, I'm taking a test on my last day, lol.

I've made roughly 20 batches of wine and so have been sweet white wines and fruit wines. My dad drinks dry red wine all the time and I want to make a batch for him. Does anyone have a simple affordable recipe I could make? I'm looking for a 5-6 gal recipe. maybe a welches Concord recipe. Or if...

Could someone post the shelf life of all the common ingredients like: Sorbate Kmeta Nutrient Tannin Energizer Acids Pectic Enzyme And any others your can think of. Iw would like to start marking mine and I'm sure others would find it useful.

I noticed that some people used torani Carmel syrup to flavor their apple wine for a Carmel apple flavored wine. I was wondering if you could do a similar thing with maybe their strawberry syrup to add strawberry flavor to a wine of choice, or any other flavor they have. I seen they have some...

so its time for me to move back into my apartment for school which is 120 miles from my wine den at home. My problem is that i dont want to part from my newly discovered hobby, but i think i might have some problems with taking my wine with me. 1. i only have my bedroom for space to do it...

im curious on a juicer for juicing the fruit instead of using mesh bags. so, when i type in juicer on amazon i get juice extractors. this is the only type of juicer i have ever known about, until today. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MDHH06/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 now that i seen someone...

I got a few questions about tannin. I titled it all about tannin so other new ppl searching could find the thread in the future. 1. What wines need tannin, and how do you know if your wine needs tannin? 2. What does tannin do to wine? How does it change the taste? 3. How much tannin should...

So I finished my first wine kit and its about ready for labels. I wanted to do a funny label but couldn't come up with or create anything any good so I just made a label quick so I can finally have something done that looks presentable. So, my next label I will be creating is for my...

So I got a brake bleeder for degassing. I seem to have an air tight seal with just putting the hose through the bung. What kind of vacuum pressure or whatever its called do I want? I took it to about 23 and got very little bubbles. Does that mean I degassed well with my coat hanger or do I need...

I just found a great deal on some equipment on craigslist. Ive heard of ppl finding carboys for 15$ before but could never find them under 20. I was looking for a Capper to try my first batch of beer and found this deal: 1 five gal carboy 2 six gal carboys The Capper I needed Bunch of bottle...

I have a couple questions. I started some peach wine (I think it was daves recipe) and used a straining bag for peaches. The peaches have been in there for 5 days and I took them out today due to a stinky smell that was quite strong. So Mt questions are, did my batch go bad? It was almost 72...

So I made a 1 gal batch from orange concentrate following some recipe I found. The weird thing is, it was crystal clear in 5 days while it was still in primary. is this common with concentrates? Here's a pix of it on day 5.

so ive come up with a bunch of questions i have and been saving them in my phone to ask them all at once.. lol 1. does anybody or has anybody every used the 5 gal water jugs you can get at walmart or from culligan stores for wine making? seems like they would be the same as a plastic carboy...

I've noticed some recipes that I find call for boiling the sugar and what not to make invert sugar, like SP. My question is why? What does this change? Would recipes be fine if you didn't do this? Does it change the taste? I dont know what im doin when im doing this. Lol

So I found these at the grocery store and thought they would make a good wine (hoping, but I'm Completely new to this so maybe I'm wrong) would these work for wine making? And does anyone have a general idea of what to add to it to complete a recipe? The ingredients in them are just water...

Title says it all, I made skeeter pee today and put slurry in it, so do I add additional yeast too?

hey all! im new to wine making! i live in Wisconsin and work at fritolay to provide all of you nice ladies and gentlemen with your potato chip needs :D my new fiance's sisters bf is huge into making wine and beer, his family has been doing it for generations. so after trying his stuff at many...