Recent content by honkey

Hey all, my wife is interested in making wine together at home. I'm a professional brewer and I still have a lot of my old homebrewing equipment and I also do some yeast propagation for my brewery at home, so I have flasks, 6 and 5 gallon carboys, buckets for fermentation, etc. I've been looking...

I am pretty sure my SP has been fermenting for over 2 months now. It looks like it is finally nearing completion, so I just added more energizer to try to help speed it along. I will not be using champagne yeast again. Most likely sticking to 1118 from now on. Hopefully it is worth the wait. I...

Interesting... I had been under the impression that topping up with water made the wine taste watered down. This seems to be the general consensus on this forum at least.

I have a box of Redvolution Bota Box wine, and I was thinking about topping off with it for my Australian Shiraz when I transfer in a few days. Revolution is just a red blend that I enjoy... Not a great wine, but nice to have around.

Thanks guys... I just wanted to know what to expect. I could see them being a hit with some friends.

I was at Wally's World today and saw that Arbor Mist had a Strawberry Zinfandel. I decided to pick it up since I was thinking about getting a strawberry Zinfandel or riesling from Orchard Breezin. I think it is OK. I was wondering if anyone could describe how Orchard Breezin compares to Arbor...

Welcome. Nice to have someone else from around here. (Huntsville)

Thanks for the response. The strawberry Riesling I was looking at is an Orchard Breezin' kit. I normally order from brewmasterswarehouse.com, but I would be willing to try another website to get something that they don't have. I wasn't really hoping for a match the commercial wine, but that...

I guess most people are making reds?

Great minds think alike ;) I was planning on this also.

Now that my Australian Shiraz is under way, I am wanting to start another batch already. I am thinking that a Riesling, White Zin, and a Mist Wine kit are what's up next. The first wine I ever had was a Schmitt Sohne Riesling and I also like Dr. Loosen and my fiancee and her mom both like white...

Good to hear I was close! I want to make a kit a month for a few months. I may even do a mist wine kit. I also just found a guy on Craigslist that is willing to part with 200 bottles that he says are cleaned and cork able for 50$.

All right... I need to get my iMac out of hibernation (I normally use my iPad these days) and I will get started on this. All info that goes onto the site will rely on submitted material. If, when I get this started, there is anything left off that people feel is important, I will gladly add...

I just started my first kit. It is a Cru Select Australian Shiraz. Everything seemed to go well. I annoy certain what the OG was supposed to be, but I measured it at 1.094. I am excited about it!

What I am imagining is a site where you would click on the name of the kit, then you would see a picture of the wine in a glass and a picture of the kit. Then, there would be a table. One column would say "Original Gravity" then the corresponding column would have the list. There would be a...