making blueberry wine. after about 1 week, s.g. got down to .990 so i transferred to a 5 gallon carboy ( added 1/3 gallon water so would be full ). i put a "top" on ( plastic cork device 1/2 filled with water ). i thought there were supposed to be bubbles coming out of it, but i haven't seen...
i added sorbate and camden prior to backsweetening two gallon of strawberry wine-3 days ago. how can you tell if the sorbate is working and therefore i can be confident in bottling the wine knowing that there will be no more fermentation??
i made a batch of strawberry wine about 6 months ago. i bottled the first 3 gallons a week ago, but decided to backsweeten the last 2 gallons before bottling it. i put in the sorbate ( 1 teaspoon ) and camden tablets ( 2 ) after crushing-about 3 days ago. the s.g. at this point was .990...
i have had about 4 gallons of strawberry wine fermenting for about 6 months. i just moved it to another container and decided to try to backsweeten it prior to bottling. for this much wine what is the correct backsweetening procedure as far as timing and amounts of sorbate/camden to use...
i made 20 bottles of peach wine a year ago that i opened the first bottle of about a month ago. some people that tried it didn't think it was sweet enough so i added a sugar/water "syrup" to some bottles and recorked. on most of these bottles the corks have blew out and if i took them out the...
made peach wine for the first time one year ago and when i opened the first bottle about a month ago the wine seemed dry so i added a syrup mix to each bottle and recorked. i uncorked one today and the cork came out in a rush ( like you would expect champagne to act ). also, i noticed that two...
the s.g. on my strawberry wine is down to about .986-it was started about 5 weeks ago. how soon should i bottle it? i have siphoned it twice so far. also, i read that you can add sulphite/sorbate/sugar just prior to bottling if you want a less dry strawberry wine. do i wait until the last...
i forgot to put water in the air lock of my new strawberry wine. it was a day or two before i discovered this-by which time the air lock seemed to have filled up with strawberry wine. will the wine still be ok?
i was going to sweeten my new batch of strawberry wine a month after beginning the batch. i've read in various posts that you should use potassium sorbate and potassium metabisulphite before adding the sweetener. are there other names for the sorbate and metabisulphite products? i added...
i just uncorked my first ever batch of peach wine ( bottled august 2009 ). it seems ok, but has more "bite" to it than i think some of my seldom wine drinking friends might like. can i mellow it/sweeten it now by adding sugar-or something else. if so, let me know how much and what to do at...
i froze about 18 lbs. of strawberries yesterday in preparation for making strawberry wine next week.
how long should i freeze them?
most importantly, what is the best way to thaw out and then get the juice out of them for the wine??
also, i froze a small amount of rhubarb about a month ago...
i want to make strawberry wine tonight-at the latest tomorrow. my problem is my wine supply store had everything i needed except "acid blend" ( the recipe calls for 1 teaspoon per gallon-i'm making 5 gallon ). should i go ahead and make the wine without the acid blend, or add it later, or is...
would like to make strawberry wine soon:
1 how careful must i be about strawberries having been sprayed?
2 can i freeze s/b's for a few weeks before starting process?
3 can i add a small amount of rhubarb juice?
4 recipes gladly accepted!!
would like to make rhubarb plus "something with it" wine-the "something" hopefully being in season or shortly in season in central illinois. any ideas and possible recipes?
also, i made my first batch of wine ever last august and am about ready to uncork it to try some-is there any signs i...