Recent content by dwinemaker

I'm not making or bottling wine today, but my rhubarb is coming up nicely and I am excited about making my rhubarb wine soon. I grow some grapes, concord, Le Crescent, Kay Gray, and Marquette, but not enough to make large quantities of wine. I've never ordered juice, but if I could get a good...

Wow, you sound like a pretty serious winemaker. I only have my little kitchen to make wine. Most of it I age under my old kitchen table. I'd like to beef up my wine making this summer as I know I'll be getting tons of rhubarb and we love rhubarb wine. Today I'm washing tons of bottles to...

Dear winemaker, get the wine in a carboy and give it time. With rhubarb wine yeast is everything. Next time try Vintners Harvest MA33, or EC1118, not sure of the brand, but they'll know at a wine supply store. I have found 4 pounds of rhubarb per gallon makes a nice rhubarb wine , but again...

Thank you. I have to remember to be patient. . I will try more pectic enzyme and more patience. I think I need to look through my freezer and start more wines. Maybe this will keep my mind off the clearing dilemma. Like I always say "wine not!"

If you haven't read the book "The Joy of Home Winemaking" by Terry Garey you should. She has the best basic, down to earth approach to winemaking I've ever read. She can answer all your questions. She's not snotty, she practical, and she's funny. I bought my copy at Barnes and Noble. For 15...

My Pear wine doesn't want to clear. I used a clearing agent, but haven't stirred it consistantly over a few days like it seems people here are doing. Would making a greater effort at degassing help my wine to clear? I did not use potassium sorbate in this wine because I was hoping to make it...