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is there a general rule of thumb as to how many lbs of sugar to back sweeten to curtain specific gravity in this case being 1.010 @ 5 gallons? im sure its posted here some where I just cant lay my hands on it. thanks

I just took the first sip of my 14month old five gallon of blackberry made with the Home Winery Supply blackberry concentrate. can someone tell me how to make flavor pack with real berries and how many berries do you think I need?

first off I don't have any fancy test equipment cept a hydrometer. I have several gallons of mostly Welch's juice wine with recipes taken from this site and others. aged from 4 months to a year tastes pretty good I guess but every bit of it has a slight to moderate bitterness . if I...

3.5 to 4 lbs strawberries 1,5 lbs. sugar or to SG 1.090 1 tsp nutrient .75 tsp acid blend .5tsp pectic enzyme 1 campden .5 energizer add enough water for one gallon ive done this recipe before and we liked it pretty well as we (the wife and i) are not wine drinkers but are learning to...

hello i dont know really where to post this question. i have a older friend that knows i'm dappling in wine making he said his brother-in-law used to get him corn cob wine aged in a oal barrel. brotherin law is passed on and my friend would like some Corn Cobb wine and i would like to...

hello folks i have a question i followed the recipe from the skeeter pee web site only thing i had going was a batch of welchs concord grape. boy did it ever take off! it was foaming so hard i had to scrape the foam off cause it was coming out the top of my 7 1/2 bucket. it settled down...

Hello its me again is it ok to age wine in one gallon jugs with screw on lids ? its been stablized and degassed for a week or so just wondering if the air locks did something for the flavor, I thank you you your time

im tring to make wine from the product from ocean spray called 100 % juice which is apple pear and cranberry from concentrate im tring for a higher alcohol content SG is 1.130 which should be 17 percent im have pitched red star premier cuv'ee nuthin happened in 24 hours so i...

i have 5 gallons of a mixture of welchs juice and crushed grapes . it fermeted down to 1.010 and stoped its been sitting at this reading for a few days now sooooo what is my next move? do i need to stir the crap out of it and hope it fires back up ? im reading and listening tring to...

i have a niece that works in the bakery at the local food lion she has brought me a few five and two gallon buckets the top lid a rubber sealing gasket on the bottom of the bucket in the "triangle' it has the number five and under the triangle there are two small p's will these...

i was just given 3 5gallon buckets of good sized winesap apples and several pounds of concord grapes. i have no room to start another batch of anything. how do i need to prepare these for the freezer for a later date? just another want to be terry t

hello folks you are lookin at a complete dummy when it comes to wine making. i have a old recipe that is only half bushel of grapes bunch of sugar twelve pounds i think anyway and alittle water i did how the hand writen recipe said to do it turned real sweet. Just recieved a wine...