Recent content by Mike72677

Thanks for all the advice so far. My wine has actually been crystal clear for a few months now. Not sure how I managed to get the lucky with my first batch ever! Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

I have 5 gallons of apple that has been fermenting/clearing for almost 7 months now. I added oak chips for a month and removed them about 2 months ago and now I'm looking into finishing and bottling. That brings me to my questions. I was going to split my 5 gallons into 1 - 3 gallon carboy...

Could you please advise me on when I should do all of this then? This is my very 1st batch of homemade. I wasn't ready to go all homemade yet, but was given cider and told to make wine! Ha!

Here's the history so far: 10-13-2013 - SG 1.05 of cider - SG 1.082 prior to fermentation 10-20-2013 - SG .996 after primary fermentation in bucket - Transfer to carboy I'm no where near anything clear at this point so I wouldn't even notice if it got...

I have 5 gallons of fresh pressed cider fermenting. I would like to add cherry to the wine to make an apple/cherry mix. Could I add a frozen concentrate something like this: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Old-Orchard-100-Juice-Apple-Cherry-Concentrate-Frozen-12-oz/10805178 and when would I add it...

The only steps left in my recipe are racking several times and adding anti-oxidant at bottling. However, I have read about adding campden tablets when racking and I have read about adding ascorbic acid when the SG drops bellow .995 to prevent it from oxidizing and turning to vinegar and I've...

Thanks for the quick response! Just continue to rack every few weeks now? That's all that's left in the instructions other than adding anti-oxident before bottling. Thanks again for the very quick response! I didn't want to end up with apple cider vinegar!

I'm new at wine making and just started my 1st kit a few weeks ago. I was then given 5 gallons of fresh pressed apple cider last Sunday and told "here, make wine". I have no clue on making wine from scratch yet, but got out a recipe book and followed the instructions. I had the wine in a...