Recent content by devin

I picked up a vinometer today so I could measure what I had already racked, its measuring 17 percent which is stronger than I thought using pizza yeast and measuring on day 10. I am.glad to find specialty yeast and supplies within 5 minutes of my house. Will update on the cider and mead as it...

I have racked the first two batches because the smell and taste are strong as far as alcohol and have a great taste. They taste alot better than the store bought wine I had this weekend.

Thanks both, I had forgotten to mention the yeast nutrient in the mead batches, I had just done the hooch batches before I found the homebrew supply near my town. I have time to get the sorbate before the hooch finishes, despite only having pizza yeast for those batches, I may have to halt the...

I have a total of 5 Small batches, 3 of them are hooch done the old fashioned way with welchs essential juices, for me being a couponer I have less than 2 dollars in all 3 juices and sugar costed 89 cent, I had the bakers pizza yeast. They are.on day 6, had no airlocks so did the loosened cap...

Thanks all, just realized I posted intro in wrong forum. Right now I have 2 bottles of welchs juice fermenting the old fashion way, also have one gallon of hard cider and one gallon of mead, just basic honey. Those are done with the equipment I acquired after I started my first batches. One of...

I have two welchs essential batches going, I.was not sure of the bottle welchs white grape because one of them has potassium sorbate in it so I.did not buy it. Did you do the frozen concentrate or bottle, and how did it turn out?

Hi, I am new to winemaking, was linked to this site, saw it has an app and created an account. So far, I have four things fermenting, all in primary, looking foreword to seeing how it goes. Something I did right because they are fermenting nicely. Started with 5 but had one epic fail or sluggish...