Recent content by Flafemina

Made wine from juice, Pinot Nior. Fermented in carboy, 5 gallons, since October. Multiple rackings, treat with K-meta but only once. Just bottled today and tasted some. Has a sour aftertaste. Will this mellow out in the bottles?

I know this is a wine making forum but I am looking for some guidance on beer bottling. I broke my beer bottle capper over the weekend and needed to cap 50 more bottles of beer. Couldn't find one anywhere so I used my wine corker and corked the bottles. Is this an issue? Should I cap over...

I am making wine from juice. Pinot Noir. A started back in October. Is it too late to add oak chips for flavoring?

I've been making wine for 5 years now, from juice, and I usually pop my first bottle after one year. I introduced a friend of mine to the wine making process and after 3 months he's serving his wine to all his friends and they are raving that it was good and where is my wine. How can the wine...

It is only half filled I am transporting that to bottles tonight. There are these little white rice looking things floating in the wine. Both my 5 gallon and the one in the pic. Wasn't sure what it was but kept finding fruit flies in my airlock and figures no way it could get in through the...

Those are the little things in my wine I thought were fruit fly larvae.

Thank you. Excellent information.

I transferred my wine from a 6 gallon carboy to a 5 gallon. I put the extra in a one gallon growler however there is a lot of air space. Is it ok to let it age like that? See picture.

You can see the fly

I have moved my wine into a carboy and keep seeing fruit flies in the air lock. I see little white things floating in the wine. I assume the larvae. Is my wine damaged or ruined? How can they survive in there? What should I do now?

Yes aging...thank you for the advice. Very new at this. Enjoying the process though a lot. I am just always afraid I will ruin it. Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

It's so small though worried I won't find it. Or tiny fragments will remain. Shouldn't be harmful to anyone drinking it should it? Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

My wine has been fermenting now for 5 months. I was using a wine thief to taste how the wine was aging. I accidentally snapped a very small piece of the glass into the 5 gallon carboy. Is this entire batch pretty much a waste? What is the best way to handle this? Sent from my iPhone using...

I never tested SG when I started. I should have. I will add sugar are what happens. Wonder if I should treat it like a beer and not a wine?

I tried making wine from apples. I cored and crushed and sifted pounds of apples to make 1 gallon of juice. Boiled the juice for 45 minutes let it cool. Added yeast and let ferment. I racked it once and it has been sitting for a month. I tasted it today and there is no flavor at all. It...