Recent content by mjdtexan

I like that.

<-----------loves blueberry port.

I have one 3 gallon batch of apple wine 10% abv(from concentrate) one gallon batch of the same one batch of cranberry 18% abv from concentrate. They both smell skunky. I used lalvin EC-118 Any ideas, can this be corrected?

How come you have to freeze it? Is rubber to soft to drill?

Wow, that sounds really really good. I am going to have to try that.

That works? I never thought of that. Sometimes my wine comes out to "hot" tasting. I am going to try it with a frozen apple juice recipe. Thanks

I had not thought about that. I will try that next season Those are good ideas too. They are on the to do list. The watermelon juice does not keep long inside the refrigerator once it is removed from the watermelon for some reason. I had plenty of watermelons though. I will grow more this year...

I did that on several batches. I even bought Lalvin EC-1118 because its is supposed to be able to work as low as 50f. If I could find a yeast that would operate at a lower tempature then I would try that. I will get it eventually. When I grow more watermelons next season I will try try try again.

Oh yeah, I had watermelons galore. Red meated, yellow meated, and orange meated ones. Everybody around these parts had watermelon, even my chickens (btw-I now have 20 more 5 week olds). I will do it all again next year. I got a new tiller for the back of my tractor, so I will be doing a...

Hello everybody. Its been a while since I have visited. I am still making wine. I always have something going. Apple wine seems to be the staple around here. Right now I have apple, apple cinnamon, apple vanilla, and cranberry going. The apple cinnamon and apple vanilla are experiments. I...

I've been around, I been reading, I just been keeping silent.

I drink a couple of glasses of wine a day and a few beers a day :hh

Well, I used 30 of them last night. They went in with little effort. I am going to step up to the floor corker though. Thank all of Yall very much. Mike D

Thank You. I am using a hand corker. I expect I need to step up and get the floor corker.

I just got (from George) 100 corks. I ordered Straight Corks-Perfect Agglomerate #9 X1.50. Thats exactly what I got. They look different than the corks I got with my original wine makers startup kit. Did I mess up? Is the the correct cork that goes in normal .750ml wine bottles?