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I'm not sure if this is the right section of the forum for this recipe, but I wanted to get it up here before the summer passes everyone by. It's been a particularly hot summer here, and my buddy and I began to wonder if hard iced tea would be good after an afternoon of outdoor work. I...

A local winemaking shop has a cold stabilization room where they store unfermented juice. They claim that it works the same way pre-fermentation as post-fermentation, but I've never seen it work that way! So, I'm reaching out to the experts here -- is he right, or does tartaric acid crystal...

I just made a simple Apple Cider from pasteurized sweet apple cider from the supermarket (there were no preservatives in the juice)... It looks good and tastes great (yay!) when I racked it today -- I also stabilized it and put in a two-stage clarifier. Starting SG was 1.040, final was...

So, I'm overseeing a batch of Apple cider made from fresh-pressed apples. A 23L batch was started, with an OG of 1.054. The person who bought the juice was under the impression that it was pasturized, rather than sorbated, to stabilize it for sale -- but he was wrong. If I had known that, we...

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Yup, I did it. I saw them there. I wondered. I bought 3 500ml bottles of them. I started a batch. Interesting experience so far - I tried to float my hydrometer in the syrup as-is, and it was so high it was an inch+ past the bottom of the scale! :) I cut with with an equal volume of water and...

I had something interesting happen with my strawberry wine. I put a nice, clear bottle into the fridge to get a nice chill on it and when I took it back out it was very, very hazy! It also appeared to stay that way, even after it warmed, but I'm not sure. Any thoughts? BTW, the recipe for...

I thought I'd share a 1 Gal Ribena wine I put on a while back and just tasted. For those unfamiliar with Ribena, it is a blackcurrant drink sold in a concentrate (cordial) format as well as a ready-to-drink product. I used the 1 litre 5:1 concentrate bottle, where they expect you to dilute...

Boy, it was a good day when my local health food store had 1 litre bottles of 100% Açaí juice on sale for $5.99 each! I saw them on the shelf and thought they might make a nice wine, so I bought three bottles and started a 1 Gal batch. I'll share the recipe, my notes and other progress notes...