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I am going to replicate my grandfather's wine making. It is a bit unusual. Solera cask would have some very old wine with new wine because it never gets emptied but I need some ideas. I imagine he never added yeast unless it was bread yeast and relied on wild fermentation. With modern wine...

Indeed I hadn't thought about it but you are correct. I am going to start a thread doing this with more modern equipment and methods. Folk solera I will start it with a plain base mead. I know he always had honey on hand and I am sure it was used.

I had calculated the approximate sugar in juice and fruit and then calculated the amount of sugar for approximately 15%abv. 5 pounds 13oz or 2640 grams of fruit. I hadn't thought about higher abv and aging other than doing a cider vs wine. I have a habit with higher abv in wine for...

We used fruit that ripened early or late. He adjusted it based on his taste if it got weak he boiled sugar and added it to the mix. I don't know how he kept it from moulding or turning to vinegar. He kept it covered with a freshly washed and bleached towel with a table top on it. I am...

Yesterday at Thanksgiving my in-laws mentioned they wanted me to make a tropical punch wine for the beach in about 6 months. I have enough to make a 5 gallon batch but will tropical fruit wine be aged enough to be enjoyable in 6 months? Here is what I am using most was on hand. 4 bananas 3 kiwi...

I am 46. I grew up next to my grandparents. My grandpa kept a wine barrel in his "grainery" root cellar a great place to make wine all year. I watched him dump grapes and strawberries sugar beets and so on in the never ending barrel. Occasionally fruit was removed and stirred with a wooden...

Ok I found multiple problems first my digital thermometer was not reading correctly when I pasteurized an back sweeten fermentation restarted and resulted in fermentation restarting and more CO2 building during the cold crash. The combination of CO2 and bitter honey notes resulted in grapefruit...

No acids was added which is my concern. I used a wildflower honey that was very high in tulip poplar. It's sweet because I did back sweeten it. I think I should have let it dig ass longer and I thought the honey might smooth it out with it. Aging but the grapefruit flavor is very outputting...

That one is about 2 months old sorry for leaving that information out. It's 2 separate brews

This is the first year I've made mead and I have a few questions. My first batch is still very young. I currently have it cold crashing but it almost tastes like sweetened grapefruit. Is this normal? My second question is I made a mistake making several batches at once and one of the batches. I...