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YES It is very good!

I was given two bottles of duplin scuppernog wine, green bottles. Seemed to be 4 or 5 yars old. It had a brown foil over the cork and the wine was a darker color( brownish) I have bought some of the same from my local stores and it is clear and sweeter tasting. It has an oak taste to it.Is this...

Adding sparkoloid to blackberry???????? Racked 5 gallons of blackberry into the secondary almost a month ago. In a couple of days I am going to rack agian. Should I add sparkoloid to blackberry? I added to my skeeterpee and wondered if it was to late for the blackberry, or do I even need to...

An update on my pee. I was starting to worry about the pee I started from yeast with no slurry. Fermintation was going but not very good. Yesterday morning with the S.G. down to 1.06 with very little activity I added the last bottle of juice and the nutrient and enigizer. I woke up with this...

Well I started my first batch last night. I have followed the directions to a t, and plan to try to start it late tonight with lalvin ec-1118. My question is when I check S.G. It was around 1.06 so I added sugar to get it to 1.07 I forgot to factor in the tempature of the must. This morning my...

I keep the carboy covered with a black plastic bag , to help with the cover. I made red plumb a couple of months ago, and Im really getting to enjoy this.

okay thnks for the kind words. It has a blood red color and just dosent look like the deep purple colors I have seen before. Maybe after a couple of rackings the color will change.

On the afternoon of 7-24 I started 5 gallons of blackberry wine. I followed the recipe to the t. Added all ingredients and waited the 24 hours to add yeat. Added yeast on the morning of 7-26. starting S.G. was 1.10 bout 13% alchol. The recipe said to wait 5 days then check S.P. when at 1.030...