Recent content by Paulietivo

Those are really specific oak additions and I salute you for that level of detail. I prefer the oak spirals to offer the best noticeable flavor extraction in just 6 weeks. Medium, medium plus and heavy toast. Also wine cubes or oak stix. The beauty of making wine is that you can use any combo...

I found these red wine raisins, has anyone used them? They're only available from winelovers.com. looks like the sell kits branded as abc kits aka fontana...

This looks intriguing as they're readily available. How do you prepare them for the must? What quantity is used for 6 gallons of juice? Thanks

Nice! I ask because I'm in Massachusetts now so its easy to get cranberries when the season arrives. Anyway I use to play soccer in east stroudsburg tournament when I was a kid. Fun times up there. So back to the cranberry wine. What recipient did you follow? If any. I follow an old EC Kraus...

Have you used a hydrometer? Which yeast did you use? (If any) What type of wine are you making?

Great color! Did you use fresh cranberries? How many pounds?

My second go at the cranberry wine was to go for off dry or semi sweet. No potassium bicarbonate this time. I fermented to dry w R2 yeast. Backsweeten w monin pure cranberry syrup & will definitely use this process again as it added body and flavor. Also a little glycerine to smooth it out...

I actually made a dry cranberry wine and people either loved it or hated it. I fermented to dry so below 1.00 but think it was around .996 if I remember. I added potassium bicarbonate to raise the ph to low 3s. & Pectic enzyme. I didn't back-sweeten but added glycerin for body and smoothness...

The kit is most likely designed to be back-sweetened w the package that came w it, so it may not taste like the varietal without it. Juice buckets are the way to go. I like R2 yeast for dry reisling. A ready to go option is mondiale fresco reisling from New York state. Very good dry in my...

It could be. What is the ph of the juice? Cranberry has a low ph and that combined w the alcohol may have it stuck. Have you added any yeast energizer or anything to get it started again?

Yes the oak spirals are single use. It only takes 6 weeks for full extraction but you can leave them in longer, I always do. I like the flavor of the heavy toast compared to medium and light. Light us more of a nose than flavor imo. Wine stix on the other hand take much longer to extract the...

Did you ever figure out what format to upload videos? My small video from Android says the same thing and I cannot upload it. For everyone, what file extensions are able to be uploaded? Mine is currently .mp4. Thanks

Congratulations! Did you use grapes, juice or kits?

If you added sulphites already then mlf might be out if the question but its ok. It will be a good wine. If you didn't add sulphites then try mlf. For oak my preference is oak spirals. You can choose the toast level and there is full extraction in 6 weeks. Basically add at your next racking...

Add a second dose K & wait 48 hrs. If it's clear, skip the C. I've had this issue and the C caused the clouding. I know it sounds illogical but it happened to me twice in separate batches of white wine. Salute! 🍷 🥂