Search results

This is weird. Almost all of my bottles of black tea wine are crying a very sweet liquid from the cork! What could be causing this?

I've been making wine for a couple of years now and think I have a fairly good grasp of it. I would love to meet up with other amateur wine makers in the area and sample what others have made! Is there any interest in a meet up? (I love about an hour north west of Toronto)

Made this recipe up... But turned out AMAZING! tastes exactly like Jolly Rancher sour watermelon! 1. Cube a watermelon 2. Blend the watermelon (you can add some water to get it well blended) 3. Strain watermelon using a fine metal mesh strainer into a jug 4. Dilute watermelon with 50% more...

I noticed today that some of my 1 year old wine (4-5 bottles) have started bleeding or crying from the centre of the cork... Why would they do this? Will it hurt the wine? (The bottle I just opened tasted amazing) Should I worry? As a side note: I mark the top of each cork with a coloured...

I live about an hour from Toronto and cannot find a place to get wine making materials cheap. I am looking to buy in bulk (1lb bags) the following: Tannin Nutrient Energizer Pectic enzyme A couple of places I have called are quoting up to $200 for all this! I looked online and Amazon.com has...

I started a batch of SP last night and noticed that I am fresh out of tannin with my order of extra tannin not coming in for another week or so... I could run to a local shop and spend $3 of a minuscule amount of tannin (15g I think) or I could be resourceful (read: cheap) and find an...

I've done a couple of attempts at sparkling wine in 2L pop bottles and they are always a HUGE success. Some of them are so dry and so effervescent that they literally turn into clouds in your mouth and leave your mouth perfectly dry when swallowed... Never experienced a sparkling beverage...

I've made a couple of bottles of sparkling lemon (skeeterpee) and cider wine, and although they taste delicious they are always cloudy with sediment at the bottom of the bottle. I make these in 1L pop bottles. My current process is simple: follow whatever recipe I'm using for making wine...

I did a really stupid thing while making my cider wine and measured it out over top of my bucket... Long story short it got a little over twice the dosage it should have. It has been fermenting about a week and a half now and I have racked it to a carboy. I took a sip and WOWZA it is sour! Is...

Does anybody know where to buy Niagara grapes in or around Toronto Canada?

I'm getting a LOT of strawberries tomorrow and want to make strawberry wine. I was planning on using Dave's DB recipe, but that calls for frozen berries... Do I need to do anything special to kill the natural yeasts? I assume I need to husk the berries and wash them, but should I also add...

When I clear my wine I always store the last 1/2 bottle of dregs in a 1.5L wine bottle to let it re-settle so I can get a few extra glasses of wine out of my batch. I normally am too lazy to sanitize another bottle when I do my next batch so I end up filling the bottle with another batches...

I started making wine in January and decided to plant a couple vines now that spring is here. My local vineyard sold me two vines which are about 2 feet tall and the diameter being just smaller than a dime (bigger then a pencil) Currently they are in pots on my back deck. Is there anything...

Accidentally put in 1tsp to my Skeeterpee instead of 1/2 tsp. Will it be ok?

I'm making a strawberry dragons blood to celebrate my daughters first birthday. I made it using 2.72kg of frozen strawberries and I want this wine to be really special as there will be lots of people attending the party. I've done some research into fpacks and it looks like the process is...

I was making a high SG modified Skeeterpee and forgot to factor in the sugar from the bananas which I added so my starting gravity was somewhere around 1.130. The only thing that I omitted from the recipe was the yeast energizer as none of my local wine shops seem to know what it is and...

Costco had the two pack of barolo + Cabernet sauv on sale for $40! I had to pick it up even knowing that it is generally considered a poor quality wine. I picked it up mainly to try experimenting with and to have as a day-to-day wine while my more expensive kits (and good dragon bloods) get...

I started two SP on Saturday: 1 original recipe in a glass carboy with a sweater on it (1.080SG) 1 with 1 packet of Hungarian oak powder and 5 "almost overripe" bananas in a primary bucket (1.110 SG) The original recipe is bubbling away now after 48 hours with a nice layer of scum. However...

I'm leaving to go on vacation a week Sunday and will be gone for a week. Normally it takes about a week for my SP to ferment to 1.010 and I rack it then. If I start tonight and next Sunday morning the SG isn't low enough, will it be safe to either leave it in primary or rack at whatever it may...

I'm fed up with my degassing rod breaking and am looking at investing in a degassing vacuum. I have heard people use everything from wine saver pumps to brake line Mityvac's to $200 allinone wine pumps. What should I spend the money on to get it all done effectively? Is there anything...