Recent content by loopline

Xylitol tastes minty to me. Does it add a mint undertone over time? I brew up stevia, just stevia leaves and hot water and it doesn't have the bad aftertaste like processed stevia, at least not to me. That said if you go heavy handed it does taste kind of off, but still not as bad as the...

Update: The grapes: went thru the juicer fine and came out at 3.8 PH .076 or 10%ABV So I just added Yeast Nutrient Yeast Energizer Lavlin K1-V1116 I was happy with how the juice came out so I did nothing except of course sulfites for a day and then lots of pectic (more then is called for)...

Yes the globe grapes have seeds, but the juicer is pulling them out intact. I thought thru all my methods available to me and I don't have a steam juicer, nor the time to run thru 300 lbs of fruit with it. I am leaving town in 1 week from today and Ill be gone for 3.5 weeks. The grapes are...

So after doing a bit of research I could get some home brew setup to grind up the fruit and then press it. But I already have a breville juicer and I am wondering why most people don't use something like that instead trying to slurry/chop/grind and press the fruit? I was thinking I could just...

Im involved with a couple food rescue programs here in AZ, and I routinely get my hands on a lot of fruit that is still fine, but won't be able to be sold before it goes bad. Ive been doing this for the past 9 months and have tried my hand at making wine from it, from everything from Peaches...

Cucumber Wine, now that is interesting. Cucumbers don't have a whole lot of flavor to me, how did that turn out? Did you just use cucumbers and peels or did you just them all and make it from the juice or ? Im mostly curious if it has any real flavor or if its more a cool refreshing wine over...

I have some going now but it will be a year before i know. Thats interesting that co2 is still trying to escape after a year. I hadnt paid attention to that. So do you not degass with a stick and just let it naturally degass during bulk storage or do you degass and that still happens? Im...

Thats irrelevant. An air bubble will touch the outside of the liquid as it passed thru and thats it, 98% of the air won't touch the sanitizer. You would have to have some sort of device that would dissolve the air into the liquid to make it effective, which isn't practical. Not to mention...

If you really stop and think this thru your answer isnt logical. As air pressure and environmwnt changes air flows in and out of an air lock. For example go read all the posts of people who ask if their wine is ok when they seal their car boy with a solid bung and it gets pushed out as...

I use similar bottles, 3 gallon. Im not worries about anything, did a lot of research. Im bulk aging. My big question ive been wondering and havent got around to asking is this - is using the lid slightly backed off any different ultimately then a air lock. I ask because if you slightly...

For frozen fruit I don't think you actually need any, but I would still use it. In fact I follow a winery recipie and use 1g of potassium meta per gallon of water. I weigh it out on a kitchen scale. Standard campden tablets are 30 ppm when you use 1 per gallon (at least it says on my bottles)...

Yeah when I plan stuff I make notes, but I wind up with a lot of fruit that is just going to go bad and so its random. Like sometimes I don't even eat that kind of fruit. So like with blueberry I take notes, but Ive got a pear nectarine wine going. I have no idea how many pears or nectarines...

I have a 6 gallon batch of blueberry wine going at the moment and Im with you, it looks quite delicious. It didn't occur to me to just juice my fruit. I hate messing with it anyway. Next round Im going to just try juicing the fruit and then Ill either heat the rest of the pulp in some water...

So Ive been entertaining the idea for days about using ladies stockings. My closest store is like 45 mins to buy fruit bags anyway, so it would be handy as I can get them at walmart 7 mins away. Plus easy cleanup. I got 50lbs of blueberries today and 12lbs of papays and so I need bags. My...

As noted, the weed whacker is better, but if your going to manually stir it a whisk, ideally a bakers whisk is best. It has a lot of tines and you can not only stir it but you can try spinning the bakers whisk back and forth. This has a unique effect because its got so many tines that it...