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Because- 1. I've been really enjoying a mix I made of bochet and apple wine 2. That mix is all gone and I don't have enough money to get a batch of honey 3. I love tarte Tatin- a sort of French apple pie where the apples are caramelized with the sugar that becomes it's sauce.. - I decided to...

So we're getting ready to move at the end of this month. I'm excited because the place has a great spare room that the wife and I are going to split wine room/ sewing room. Even has the biggest walk in closet I've ever seen for storing the carboys. But here's the catch. I have about 60...

I just picked my little cabernet vine and washed and crushed all the berries. Looks like I have near a gallon with the skins and all mixed in. I'm thinking to add some other juice or fruit to this so that I have an amount that can fit into a carboy. Contemplating using the blueberry juice...

I must have used a wrong sized bung with an airlock in one of my carboys. I went to pull it out the other day and the airlock came out, leaving the stopper behind. As I tried to work the thing out, I only managed to push it inside all the way. Bummer. Wine is safely stoppered, but the first...

My pineapple wine was always my favorite to take with us to the local sushi spot. It pairs great with the flavors there. One day I munched on a little of the pickled ginger and then had a sip of my wine and the flavors went together so well! I figured that pineapple wine with ginger would be...

I have a single Cabernet vine that I planted as a test- to see how hard it would be to grow my own. Looks like its doing really well this season. I'm thinking to plant some more now but wondering about how many vines to get a carboy or two worth of wine every year? I know it's about 100 ponds to...

Not technically a wine at all, it's a maceration of green plum that sit in sweetened soju for 6 months to a year. Very tasty stuff. Anybody ever made it before who might be able to direct me on something? I followed the instructions I had found on line, but I have a problem a week or so in...

Can't afford it. But I've wanted to try it for years. The description of dried apricots with honey has my mouth watering! Please know that I'm aware that a homemade melomel with dried apricots is likely to be a weak substitute, but might be wonderful in its own right. Anybody made a dried...

I've got these critters on the new growth on my (unidentified) green seedless eating grape, they don't seem to be bothering my Cabernet at all however. They are strange little hopper type bugs who move rapidly to the back of the vine they are sitting on no matter where I move to they quickly...

So I was drinking some of my strawberry last night with a friend who's father is a farmer. The have a lot of peaches right now, and she asked me if I wanted any for wine. I was talking tough and told her I could use as much as they could give me. Just got a text from her that they are on the way...

How do you calculate it? I have a wine that stopped at about 1.010, I liked it this way and stabilized. But I need to know RS (%) to enter a competition. Any body can help?

Has anybody ever experimented with using other woods besides oak in their wine? It seems to me that we've learned historically that oak is a great flavor in wine as a side effect of it being used for barrels. But does that mean that other woods have nothing to add flavor wise even if they are...

I love the apple wine. I think it's because it was my first wine that came out well, that I'm particularly attached to it. I also know I love doing it because I buy the cider in gallon jugs and keep the jugs for bulk aging. I've done apple from concentrate, apple (crushed cider) with black...

So I've never really made a beer before, all this is new to me. (Actually I did used to make beer when I was 19, but it wasn't very good- extract only stuff that gave us alcohol ::) But, I've been thinking lately to try a braggot because I like wine better and thought it would be a good segway...

Well, I've borrowed my friend's great big crawfish boiling pot and gas burner. That thing gets nice and hot. Unfortunately I didn't think about (or perhaps take the warnings I've read seriously) the BEES! My god, my driveway looks like it's got a swarm happening right now, lol. I just slammed...

Was reading about mead on wikipedia, and it mentioned using hops in mead. This sounds really interesting to me, I like hoppy beers. Has anyone done this? How much and what kind have you used?

Checked for such a thread for our area, but finding nothing. I've got some of my first wines done and bottled, and would like to gather with some folks and share and get feedback! Anybody interested in a meet, possibly even a regular thing? I'm in Ventura county, but I'm thinking Santa...

So I have used various SG calculators and while I get a similar range from them, I'm getting different results with the same numbers. Is one more accurate than another or does everybody just have preferences? This one is interesting, has two different result depending on which calculation...

All dressed up and ready for the fair! Wish me luck!:try

Hey all, just started a strawberry 3 days ago. Fresh berries, ~40 lbs, doing about 10 gallons of it. When I went for my yeast, I found I only had a single packet of lalvin 71B that I wanted to use, so instead I used the pasteur red that I had a lot of. I have it split between two fermenters...