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Does anyone have a recipe or instructions for a cranberry wine using juice? Im guessing there is no chance of having anything ready by Christmas, is there?

I am making a batch of muscadine wine. I was not even thinking and just now realized that I did not add any of the ingredients I was suppose to add before I added the yeast., It has been sitting in the primary fermenter for about 7 days and it just hit me that I never added it (pectic enzyme...

I have read and heard conflicting advice on aging wine. This is my first batch and I am curious what you all have to say. I am making a batch of fresh strawberry wine. It is completely clear and has been in the carboy for 2 months. One thing I have read/heard says to bottle after it is...

Strawberry Clearing First timer.... My strawberry wine has been in the carboy for less than a month. My instructions say to rack every 2 months until clear. We did rack once last week bc it had a large pile of sediment in the bottom. I topped off to keep from having too much headspace. It...

But do you do anything different? Do I not still leave it until clear and then stabilize, backsweeten, and bottle?

I have tried searching instructions for a f-pack but can not find exactly how to do this. Can someone provide me with a link or instructions? I did plan to backsweeten since we prefer a sweet wine. How exactly do I know when fermentation has ended? I was under the impression I just kept...

Total Newbie here. I am in the process of making strawberry wine. It had been in the carboy for a little over a week and had accumulated a significant amount of sediment in the bottom so I racked it off the sediment and put it back into the carboy today. There is now more headspace in the top...

I went ahead and racked the wine like you suggested. I used the bucket, cleaned and sanitized the carboy and then added it back in. Because of the amount of sediment it took out, the carboy is not as full as it was before, it comes to the part where the carboy starts to taper, when before it was...

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My husband bought me a wine kit last month after I expressed interest in learning a new hobby. The kit came with the "purple book" and since i don't have a clue what I'm doing I went ahead with the recipe included in there. With strawberry season looming and a goal of a semi sweet or sweet...