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Still green as grass here in northern Mn.....Looks like a good crop coming.......As far picking them, let them get as ripe as you can...will help with the sharp taste IMO....

Hi Barney; I use mostly tame chokecherries [Canadian red something] Barney and I have traded wines in the past and his chokecherry apple blend is really nice.....As Barney said wild chokecherries can get a bit harsh and need about 2 yrs. in the bottle to mellow out.....A blend might be the way...

Welcome Greg to the forum..... I'm over here in NW Minnesota....but I don't had any grapes, just wishful thinking on that part...

Happy Birthday Barney...Hope you have a good one...CHEERS

The wife and I both make wines....I do some, she does some and we do some together....And we both enjoy drinking the wine...

That's a very sweet price.....Good find..

I made it...Had a little trouble logging in [no a lot of trouble], but I'm here...I have to admit, I've lurked here before just didn't have time to be two places at the same time.....Things look great here, but will miss the old FVW I'm sure....So Hello to all and let's make some great wines...

If you getting bubbles in your airlock, you still have co2 coming off your wine, that should protect it while you are gone.....After Mead is done fermenting I treat it like any other wine with degassing and K-Meta....I don't use clarifiers as I have my meads in the carboy for about a year and...

Hey Barney, PWP and I opened a bottle of your choke cherry wine 6 or 8 weeks ago [had it aging for a while]....We guessed you had added a f-pack to get that much cherry flavor out of it.....Apple and grape juice, will have to try that...

Happy Birthday Dean...Hope you have a good one....CHEERS

EC-1118 has a Temp. Range of 45 to 95....I try to shoot for 70 to 72 for a temp while fermentation ...during the heavy part of fermentation, the wine will make it's own heat, but I try to watch the temp at the end and keep it up there so the wine will finish out Just bottled 10 gals. of...

What kind of yeast did you use???? And what is the wine???? More info may help...

Happy Birthday Scott...Hope you have a good one..even if you have to work...

HI hannabarn, It's been a while .....I did a plum wine 2 yrs. ago with 4lbs per gallon and that was on the thin side also...nice flavor after a bit of backsweetening, but thin body.....not sure what you can do at this point to improve it...I think a F-pack may help,but to add enough to make a...

Can't find the notes on this one, but as I remember it, the honey was from Sam's Club and the strawberries also....2qts. of honey and 2qts of strawberries, for a 3 gal. batch.....And yes, pretty weak on the strawberries...bottled this in '05....The mead is pretty nice with a nice strawberry...