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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...

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...

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...