Recent content by CWayman

This is why I asked my question. I was just wondering if it would save me buying more airlocks really so I could re-use the ones I had in other demijohns. I know my answer now :)

Thanks Turock. Can I ask a question about storing the wines. Now that they are being left for so long I was thinking about putting them into the garage or the loft and mostly forgetting about them. The other benefit of that being very limited light exposure, but I'm worried about extremes of...

Wow, wish I known this earlier! :) Fingers crossed!

I used the recipes here, but there is a good one in the recipe section on the forums here too: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/blackbr2.asp I had 10Kgs (22Lbs or a full bucket full to overflowing) so I did two batches one with 8Lbs for 2 Gallons and 14Lbs for 2 Gallons (Turned out to be 3...

Is water ok in the airlocks for that long too? Should you take them out and add fresh water every few months?

Thanks everyone. Fruit wines, I have a Peach wine (3x 1 Gallon DemiJohns), and 2 Blackberry types on with more fruit than the other (3x Heavy Bodied, 2x Medium Bodied). I also have an apple wine which I just started a few days ago (bubbling away behind me!) but I now have some 6.5 gallon...

Hi, My wines have stopped fermenting now, it's been 25 days since they started fermenting. (I will check this with my hydrometer though!). I'm wondering if after adding the stabiliser and the finings whether I should keep the airlock in the wine or whether I can just use a normal holeless...

I've just done this with 16Kg of apples which according to the recipe should give me 4 gallon of wine, but.... I have a philips advance HR1869 Juicer and it produced 2 gallons of juice from the 16Kgs of apples, I haven't added the pulp as it was bone dry and no liquid left in it at all. The...

Thanks for the rapid responses everyone. Next time I will be using straining bags, especially if I've mashed the fruit, this time though I didn't have any and was way too eager to get started! But it's all part of the learning process. I agree that the peach will probably be easier to rack...

I suppose I'm just wondering whether it's worth filtering the fruit out of the must and when? if at all? I guess you're saying just do that at the first racking. One vote for option C

Hi All, I have three primary 5 gallon fermentation vessels, one with a peach wine (cut up into very small cubes) making 3 gallons, one heavy bodied blackerry vessel and one medium bodied blackberry vessel both making two gallons, the backberries were mashed. They were in their vessels with a...

Initially I was looking on here (before I found these forums and the 5 gallon receipe I posted above!) http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/blackbr2.asp It mentions 6lbs (2.7Kg) for a heavy wine and 4lbs (1.8Kg) for a Medium wine per gallon, with my weight it will end up about 4.4lbs of fruit per...

Thanks Julie, time to get sterilising :)

Hi All, This is my first adventure into Wine making. I picked 10Kgs of blackberrys yesterday and I am looking to do the following 5 gallon receipe: http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/f2/blackberry-4443/ My quandary is I go away with work from lunchtime Wednesday and I'm not back until...