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I just racked a 5 gal carboy of peach. It was made back in August. I topped it up with a bottle of scuppernong wine that I had here. I doubt if it will affect the flavor much since I made my wine out of pure peach juice and no water added. I plan to back sweeten with a peach concentrate later on.

I am fairly new to this also. this is my third year. I can understand your cerncern. When you are starting out you really don't know what smell and taste might be or even how to articulate them. The only thing that I think that I have done so far that have kept me out of trouble is that I...

You still have to have some container to get your wine out of the fermenting bucket into another container so that all of the lees ( all the gook on the bottom ) will not be in your wine. If I were you and this was my intent not to do it properly, I would forget the whole idea and go out and buy...

Why can't you use a filter pump with a Better Bottle? I read that somewhere.

Vacuumpumpman, what would you recommend buying since you have had experience with different set ups? I know nothing about pumps, filters, etc.

I have never used a filtering pump to transfer or clear wines up to this point. I was just wondering how many wine makers use a filtering pump? So far I have not had a need for one. Love to hear your comments. If I can make a better product I don't mind investing in a pump.

I don't use K-Meta. I use the iodine based product for sterilizing and so far I have not had a negative reaction in taste or smell. I can't remember the name at the present time but I am sure most of you know what I am talking about. Just came to me. Star San

Has anyone on this board used Smuckers Syrup in sweetening and adding flavor to wine such as blackberry or strawberry? I noticed on the ingredients they have pectin added. It is mostly corn syrup with flavor.

I have not bought a single bottle since i bottled my first 6 cases this past fall. I have bought a lot of wine in the past that I thought was terrible. Some of them I poured down the drain. At least with my wine, I have not poured any out. I don't give wine away because it is too hard to make...

In other words, wine making is not an "exact science" (ie., in wine making 2 +2 does not always equal 4)

Go ahead and let it "bubble". Scuppernong is a bronze muscadine grape and sometimes it takes a while for it to finish.

So far, I have read on this website that aging the wine can take care of several problems: 1. You don't have to sweeten as much if you age the wine 2. improves taste 3. wine naturally degasses itself in about a year 4. High acid levels are reduced by aging in cold temp. What other wine...

What about leaving it in a cold outside storage room at about 40-50 degrees all winter? Would that work?

Greg, Can you give more details. How do you calculate the 1%? By volumn, by weight, etc? It sounds like a good procedure to arrive but curious about how you figure the percentage. Thanks.

I used to do exibition poultry. When my boys were small we showed Old English Game Bantams. I still have a garage full of trophies collecting dust. Our biggest win was in Anderson SC where we had a Grand Champion Black Old English Cockerel that beat out 1052 birds. After that we lost interest in...

Glad to read this because this is something that I am not going to start. As far as I know, there are only a few people in my community who know that I make wine. I live in a remote setting and I can't even hear a car or see another house from where I live. When they ask me about my grape vines...

Julie, Have you tried it with Blackberry and Peach?

SammyK I think my flavor is going to be ok this year. I made everything from pure juice. Hardly any water. I think my challenge this year is going to be balancing the wines with flavor, sweetness and body. I am not too far from where you are so I will check the out the Wal-mart sometime in the...

Julie, What is the size bottle that you use with 5 gal??? Also, have you used that with Strawberry? I need something to sweeten 5 gal of strawberry.

I have 5 gal of strawberry wine that I am planning to bottle in the near future. I am thinking that I want to keep the strawberry a little on the dry side and maybe only faintly sweet. I have a lot of strawberry flavor since I made it with pure strawberry juice (very little water). I think my...