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Making my first strawberry wine. Pitched KIV-1116 yeast on Thursday at 8pm after first 24 hours of the strawberry/pectic/etc. mixture sitting. Must has been at approx. constant of 75 degrees since then. My recipe says to rack once SG has reached 1.03 which should take 5-6 days. I started...

Making a red blend from a kit. First time making wine. According to the wine kit's instructions it was ready to bottle 2 days ago, but my friend and I have been too busy to bottle so far. How long can we leave it in the carboy before bottling? Will it harm it? It's been at a steady temp...

Making my first kit. I added my fining agent and I'm trying to degas but it seems to be taking awhile. Every time I shake up a sample in the test tube I still have some pressure. Any tips? Just keep stirring? Thanks

Hey everyone. New member, making first wine (strawberry). Do bananas take the place of pectic enzyme in some recipes, or should you use PE in every fruit wine? The recipe I was initially going to use didn't list PE in the ingredients, but did list bananas (which most of the recipes for...