Recent content by Andre

Hi everyone! Thanks everyone for their advice so far. I'm not sure what to say about what happened tonight, but in the end, I think I diluted the wine way too much. I bought a bottle of wine (cheap, but one I like) to use for topping up the carboy, but I didn't take into account just how much...

Hi everyone! To continue following Andre's crabapple wine experience, find the thread about the first racking here: http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=21514 Thanks for your help!

Sweet! Thanks Tom! I will rack today. Just looking at the numbers again, and it looks like the SG was pretty low after I diluted it. What do you think about adding more sugar now and fermenting again?

Hi everyone! I started this wine a couple weeks ago, and posted about it: http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4331 The comments in that post freaked me out due to the sugar content, so I added 250 ml grape concentrate and 500ml water. The SG was 1024 then. It is now...

cpfan, as a new winemaker, I keep thinking more alcohol the better, but from what I've been reading this past week, that couldn't be further from the truth. I did dilute it a bit more this morning, with a new S.G. reading of 1024. I really hope all goes well...

Hi Luc! Alrighty, well I had 250ml left of the grape concentrate, so I added that with another 500ml of water. I had already topped up the carboy with water when racking it into the secondary fermenter, so I don't know how much more water I can add. Hopefully all will go well. I will...

Hmm... I'm sure glad I didn't add that extra kg of sugar then! The next time I will know better, but as it is, the extra alcohol is just going to make the wine taste odd? It's not going to kill the yeast or anything is it? Also, the recipe didn't ask for an acid additive, so how do I know if I...

Hi Wade! Thanks for the quick response. I was pretty careful smashing the apples, as I'd read that cutting the seeds gave bad flavor to the wine (I did not, actually, know it could be poisonous though!). The apples were just smashed in half, not as a paste as it were :) I did not take a S. G...

Hi! I just moved into a new house and there is a massive crabapple tree in the backyard. My friend lent me all of his equipment so I could attempt my first homemade wine. I started with 16 quarts of apples and smashed them with a hammer in a ziplock bag. I stuck them in the primary...