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Thanks for the welcomes everyone! So, are you doing cider or boosting sugar to get a higher alcohol content wine? I'm not familiar with hard and soft tannins and would like to learn more. I have been adding 'wine tannin' in larger quantities in my recent ciders. My previous recipe was a little...

Ok. Gotcha and thanks. I see it now from my desktop. I didn't see it on phone.

Ok, help me with the ‘welcome back’ please. I’ve posted a couple times recently, but if I’ve got a history here I don’t remember it.

I I have not. The closest is from pasteurized juice from a local cider mill. This fall I may look for some, or maybe get some juice for wine. Our local supplier gets some each fall, but for some reason the deal fell through in 2023.

Hello, I've been making wine off-and-on, mostly off, since the early 1970s, when I was around 13. It started when a buddy of mine and I read about World War II POWs putting raisins into water and letting it ferment. We tried it ... and instead opted to sneak a little of his dad's jug wine...

Hey John, take a look around here for hundreds of posts about this very thing. 😀

I did my first kit wine in late 2022, a Winexpert Super Tuscan with the grape skin packet. I'm a fairly experienced wine/cider maker, so I don't think I did anything really stupid. I feel like I followed the directions. We recently opened the first bottle (November 2023). Though I think it was...