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Read a lot about yeasts and controlling wild yeasts but want to make sure I got it right. When making fruit wines if you want to kill wild yeast use k beta then after a day you can use yeast of your choice . What is Potassium sorbate used for? If I want to make a sparkling wine what should I...

thanks guys,great advice and lesson learned.Just starting at this racket so will have to get more educated at adding the additives like sorbate,conditioner,metasulfite ,campden etc. and what they do. I rhought you add campden tablets to kill the natural yeast thats in berries then add your own...

no sorbate.SG aprox 1.2 ,Levin 1116,campden tabs 1 per gallon ,back sweeten with syrup you buy especially for backsweetening.Can't remember name

I made some partridge berry wine and added campden tablets after it was finished working according to recipe. I then bottled it .I tried some the other day after over a month in bottles and I find its still sweet,can I warm it up and add yeast to get it working again to get rid of some of the...

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I am in the process of making some sparkling wine from apples.I have it settling now and added a two part settling/clearing liquid,I forget what its called and although its clearing a bit,its going to slow for me.Is there anything I can add that wont fool up the taste and help it clear? Whats...

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I started my blueberry wine a while back,added wine yeast and some yeat nutrient to the batch.I filtered off the berries a couple of days ago when I noticed that it wasn't working anymore by watching the airlock and no more bubbles was coming out ot very few anyway. So I go it settling in a new...

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I am making some peach wine for the first time and after a couple of weeks brewing my wine tastes vinegary.I put about 11/2 - two gallons of peaches and about 10 lbs of sugar in a 25 litre bucket with some wine yeast. This is my first attempt at making peach wine btw. Did i forget something ,any...