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What exactly would be the difference? As Julie correctly pointed out on another thread, counting on a yeast to croak off at it's advertised abv is a crap shoot, and while mine wasn't exactly intentional, it looks like I'm gonna wind up with a 15.5% blackberry wine. Why would this be a bad thing...

Started a blackberry jam wine on Monday, pitched the yeast yesterday. Probably my mistake but I didnt bag the jam, so now I'm punching down the cap, so far once tonight. Question is how often do I need to do this, and how to handle the cap when I get closer to the end of fermentation, scoop it...

Do I as a home winemaker require a permit to stay on the right side of the law? I was on the website of a local juice supplier and ran acrossed this: http://www.nj.gov/oag/abc/downloads/hwmp.pdf :a1 Nevermind, I need to work on my reading comprehension, "(AT INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITY ONLY)".

Hi, I've been making wine for a whole two weeks now, Just finished clearing my first wine, a gallon batch of skeeter pee. I have a RJS Orchard Breezin' to start but have been holding off as we've been pretty warm lately and I'm not really not sure if the heat will affect the flavor of the...