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    Small white floaters before pitching?

    So this morning I rinsed out my ale pail plastic bucket in order to put together another batch. I poured 5 gallons of cranberry apple juice in and then sugar and stir to dissolve up to 1.05ish... I put a towel over it with intention to pitch yeast in the evening. A few hours later I wanted to...
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    Oxygen and bottling buckets

    So tonight I bottled up a mixed berry wine that I made a couple years ago, it's been in secondary for at least 1 year, maybe more. The airlock has always been full and barely any headspace existed. I popped open the airlock a few days ago and dropped about 4 campden tabs in it. The airlock was...
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    What is "layered" on top of my wine?

    So I started an apple pie wine a while ago. It was as simple as apple juice, sugar, and apple pie spice. A little energizer and nutrient with the yeast and all was good. It took a little a couple of months to go from 1.08ish to dry (under 1.000). An extra yeast packet and a little more nutrient...
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    'Tang' flavor before wine/sweet flavor?

    I made a strawberry and blueberry batch at the same time... Both ingredients (Fruit refres to strawberry/blueberry batches separetly): 32oz 100% Lemon Juice Water/Sugar to 1.085 8lbs Frozen Fruit 2 ½ tsp Yeast Nutrient 5 tsp Yeast Energizer 1 Packet Montrachet Yeast Both ended up...
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    Tops of bottles - is it oxidized?

    Hey guys, I haven't been able to find an answer to this. The batch was a peach mango from juice. 5 gallon batch of juice, sugar, yeast, that's it. Fermented to dry and looked pretty clear after about 2 months and 1 week. It's been under airlock since day 1 and never ran dry. When I...
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