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Great. Thanks!

I've ignored my wine making hobby for 5 months now while I try to lose some weight doing a ketogenic diet (less than 20 carbs a day.) I've lost 30 lbs in that time, but still have more to go. I've had a 6 gallon carboy of ageing tropical dragon blood sitting here all that time, and I realized...

You could use some apple juice, which would bring down your alcohol, but at that point you could drink it in a pint glass and call it apple cider.

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Try Keystone Homebrew Supply in Montgomeryville, Pa near Philly. As if last week I was getting emails that they were still taking orders for Chilean grapes and juice buckets. Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

My 9 year old home sick for the 2nd day. He's getting antsy, so I forced him to help me label. I pulled out all my unlabeled wine that I know by color alone and used the trusty inkjet printer and milk to adhere labels. This hobby is getting addictive!!!!. I didn't tell him yet, but he's...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=cornucopia%20wine Lots of Cornucopia kits at Amazon!

I think of moscato too.

Do the vitamins that are in fruit get retained when they are fermented into wine? Not that I'm saying that I'm planning on getting all my vitamins from wine or anything, but I'm just curious.....all those berries in Dragon Blood and all.....do the vitamins get destroyed in the fermentation...

I just bottled my strawberry white merlot, and while it says blush on the box, it came out a dark red. Is everyone's red, or is mine just odd? Tastes fine, but definitely not a blush. I notice that they really jumped up in price on Amazon lately too.

Just beware, you might not like it right away. I found it's better if it ages a little, even if just a month or so. I didn't like it at first, but I'm finding myself addicted to it now. I'm down to my last bottle, and I'm craving it, but don't want to drink it yet. I just bought a new carboy...

I just bought a 6 gallon today, and it has the same mark on it. Actually, all the carboys on display at the local store had them as well, so I think it's just a relic as well. I'm not driving back to exchange it. I'm sure it will be fine.

Has the slurry been sitting in the fridge for the last couple weeks? If so, it should be fine to use.

I wasn't that thrilled with it either, although I have managed to drink all but one double bottle. I like the dragon blood much more, and even that I didn't like right away. It took a couple months to be good.

I like sweet wines. When I make SP, I end up backsweetening to between 1.020 and 1.024. It tastes like sweet lemonade.