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I bought some Welch's white grape juice which is Niagara juice. A small amount of it added to my wine got the flavor I was looking for. I made Niagara wine several times before and always had to reduce the acid before bottling but never as much as this time. Reducing the acid also reduced the...

My 12 gallons of Niagara wine have very little flavor. Probably because I had to use a lot of acid reducing crystals to get the acidity into range. What can I add to it to increase the flavor? I was thinking of frozen juice concentrate. Will it work? Will it cause it to ferment again?

I will be bottling 2 carboys of Amarone in September. This is the first time I made Amarone. I used Italian juice along with a grape pack and a lot of french oak. The last time I racked it I had to have a little taste and it sure was good. A friend of mine has made it from kits and it always...

filter Yes, please send me the part number and web site- Thanks

filters Are there any filters available for the whole house filter that are less than 1 micron rating? The Bon Vino Mini-jet super sterile is rated at .5 micron. I have not been able to find a whole house filter cartridge that has a rating less than 1.

Pumpkinman DO you have a recipe for your Imperial Irish Red Ale that you can share?

Thanks for the information. When do you add the juice pack?

I am going to make Amarone from juice, not a kit. Does anybody have any information about additives for the wine? A friend makes his from a kit and he said there is a lot of oak, juice packs etc. that goes into it. I have read about adding raisins for flavor. Would raisins be a good idea and...

I always top mine off when it is going through malolactic fermentation or any time. Do not add any sulfites during fermentation and do not use potassium sorbate as a preservative when you bottle. It will badly effect the taste.

I asked Wine Makers Magazine about adding potassium sorbate to wine that underwent malolactic fermentation. The response was published in the wine wizard in the Feb/ March 2012 magazine. They said not to use it because it will react negatively with lactic bacteria and cause a geranium type...

fermenting If I use the vacuum pump to transfer my wine from the primary fermentor to the carboy, before fermentation is done, will the wine continue to ferment? Since the air is removed from the carboy while it is being filled with wine I am wondering if there will be enough oxygen in the...

Mr Wino's vacuum pump! I recently bought an all in one pump and also a filter system. I used it to rack, degas, bottle and filter 8 , 6gallon carboys of wine. It could not have worked any better. My wine is better than it ever due to the degassing and filtering that I was able to do with the...

Sanitizing all your equipment that the wine will be in contact with is very, very important. It is easy to do and will help prevent problems with the wine. After your wine is finished you can add sorbate to it to prevent it from re-fermenting in the bottle. It is also very important to degas...

Flem Did you get that from Luva Bella? Thats where I got mine. I bought 12 gallons and I clarified and bottled 6 gallons after about 6 months- excellant wine. I have the other one in cold storage and clarifying now. I will probably bottle it soon. I added oak to it and it increased the...

Is there any way to fine filter wine while racking it without a pump?