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I've used Homewinery not Vinters, very happy with it. If you like peach schnapps then try their Apricot (make it sweet). I like dry reds in general, but some guests/friends like sweet so I tried this. Comes out very well and I drink it 2 ways: 1-Mix the finished Apricot wine with vodka (or...

If you have the screw cap that came with the bottle and it's not damaged, you could use that. Plastic ones don't dent like the metal ones. You could even use plastic PET Coke soda bottles IF you're not keeping it in there too long. (I sometimes use 5-10 of the 8 ounce coke PET bottles (or 9-11...

I would wait until bottling time to add sugar. The wine must be stable. Add potassium sorbate also to prevent re-fermentation. unfermented grape juice works best when the juice used to sweeten the wine has come from the same juice that was fermented to make the wine. This results in coherent...

Heather said it all. Agreed.

Check your stash of 200 bottles and make sure none of them are screw cap. Don't put corks in screw Bottles, the bottle could shatter. Of course you could try putting a cap on the screw cap Bottle, But it doesn't seal as tightly as a cork. If you're not aging the wine for a long time is the...

Agreed. 4 degree range is small. Also those are probably air temperatures, the wine won't fluctuate as much (takes time for air to warm or cool 6 gallon carboy.

Volume can make a difference using oak barrels. Science dictates Smaller gives more oak faster, though not dramatically.

Definitely agree. Don't just dump in sugar from recipe. Use the hydrometer. It's not hard and it's fun. You can always back sweeten. Add your juice, water (3 to 5 gallons depending on your taste and the fruit, probably 4-5 for blackberry and Blueberry, 3-4 for apricot), add acid, then...

Yes thanks. I should have mentioned that. I was focused on trying to answer the question of how to get the concentrate to match the state of natural unconcentrated juice. this is the case with most fruit wines-- sugar needs to be added since many fruits don't have the higher sugar content...

I don't know if anyone reads this old thread, but.... The official legal U.S. Brix for BlackBerry is 10.0. ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/19/151.91 ). So one 64 ounce jug of blackberry juice concentrate would make 3.4 gallons of wine, if used at 100% pure unconcentrated...

Sweeten with sugar to taste. If not sure, this might help. Simple method Bone dry. 0 tsp / 5 ounce glass Dry. 0-1/2 tsp. / 5 ounce glass Off dry. 1/2 - 1 tsp. / 5 ounce glass Sweet. 1 - 4 tsp. / 5 ounce glass Very sweet: 4+ tsp. / 5 ounce glass...

Fermenting to dry... Vs racking to secondary. I keep reading about fermenting until dry in the primary bucket, by several people. Conversely, Then I also read the opposite, that it's important to rack from primary to secondary 5-7 days after the batch is first started, to avoid oxygen. The...

I am confused. How do I determine the mfg date? Also I thought this decoded to manufacture date, not expiration date? Here's what I have, which looks like yet another format.... Winexpert kit Label: World Vineyard Chilean Malbec 00315690 7 110 15 0070 Barcode Or, with...