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Just to let you know, I found the recipe Here: http://www.homebrewit.com/blog/2016/10/03/apple-pie-wine-recipe/ What's funny is that it was posted in a blog by a Quality Wine & Ale Supply!

Hello, everyone. Just looking for suggestions on my spices for an Apple Pie Wine I started last weekend. The recipe that I'm using calls for using the following per gallon mixed in the secondary after fermentation. 2 Cinnamon Sticks 4 Whole Allspice 2 Whole Nutmeg ¼ tsp. Ginger Being...

I will Roger that!

What sulfite do you recommend at this point?

Hey everyone. I know it's been about 3 months since I last posted in this thread, but my wine still looks like the picture above. Any new thoughts, or anything I could try to help speed up the clearing? It's not done really anything since. I started this wine in September! Any help is...

I really think that my issue is gas. I took a test tube sample out tonight after I racked some Shiraz, and after I shook it it had a slight pop after removing my hand, and a small head came to the top. I let it sit for a few minutes and noticed micro-bubbles going to the surface, slowly. Can...

I have not tasted it. I'm probably the only person on the forum that enjoys making it, but never drinks it. I do it for my fiance and friends, but out of the five or so I've made, never tried them! I have not sweetened the wine yet, I didn't want to sweeten until it was clear.

I have a bottle warmer, right now I have it in the furnace/laundry room next to the dryer. I will put the warmer on it.

It doesn't pop when i do the bottle test. Do you think if I put a bottle warmer on it, it may help?

I'm hoping that my wine is not done for or something worse. I started a Watermelon-Peach Wine back in mid-September. Fermented, degased, but it will not clear, even remotely. The S.G is at .990, and I have tried degassing twice, Bentonite, Pectic Enzyme (twice, second time double dose I read...