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Corn Wine Results Well, I thought I would drop by to share my experience with the corn wine I started a few months ago. It cleared really well but I'm not too excided about the taste, it taste alot like water until I swallow it, then there is a hint of corn and of course the alcohol. I made 5...

Thanks for the info, I appreciate your time! Cowboytex

Sounds like a good motto for wine making! cowboy

I didn't think of blending, I learn something new every time I come on here!! Yea, your right about the clearing Cowboy

No, I have never had any corn wine, it just sounded good and I wanted to try it lol Have you tried it and if so what is the taste? I made the Skeeter Pee, Plum and Blackberry last spring. My wife and her friends loved the Skeeter Pee. I didn’t think the Plum was very good . The Blackberry was...

Thanks for your help! I appreciate your reply and I've learned something,hopefully I'll do a better job next time!!! Cowboytex

I am attempting to make a Corn Wine: I made 5 gal., Recipe is for 1 gallon as you can see. I multiplied by 5 just to let everyone know. 2lbs cracked corn 1lb. Chopped raisins 3 lbs. sugar 4 tsp acid blend 1 tsp yeast nutrient ½ tsp tannin Water to 1 gallon 1 crushed Campden tablet...

Yea, I know it is a little high but don't want to water it down. I don't have the patience to wait that long, that is why I use a starter.

I have two primaries, each with 2 1/2 gal. I pitched the yeast early this morning. The SG reading were 1.110 and 1.120. At lunch I couldn't hear anything in bucket 1.110 so that is why I made another starter, just in case. I took the plastic off of both bucket and put a cloth, here it is a...

Sorry! I told U I was new! lol I meant the bucket used to ferment(Primary). Also, my SG reading were a little high and one primary bucket was going very slow so I made another starter with orange juice, if I don't have to use it on this batch, how long will it keep? Should I put it in the frig.?

I'm making a batch of corn wine and the instructions tell me to put plastic on the secondary. I'm new at this but all the other wines that I have made called for putting cheese cloth or something to enable the yeast to get oxygen. What do you think?

Luc, the first yeast I put in about a cup of warm water and it went to the bottom but the second package I saw a film across the top after 10 to 15 minutes. I added some of the slurry to it and it went to work quickly. Thanks for the tips, I will try them next time, I may have wasted 1 package...

the big stuff was left behind, I just poured it through a funnel with a strainer.

Tom, I have a mixture of 4lbs of blackberries and a couple of lbs. of blueberries. The recipe told me to put in the secondary at 1.030 but after only 5 days I checked it and it was .0996, I poured it into the secondary today. I'm suppose to rack it again in three weeks and again in two months...