Rice_Guy

Xylitol is not fermented. Sorbate is a non issue. FYI I also like the flavor of erythritol in wine, food systems usually mix to blend...

David (@Rice_Guy) bottles 9+ month old wines without sorbate and has no problems. I tried it last March with a 13+month old wine, and I...

I sometimes look at the risk, and will bottle nine month old wine. The “rules” are complicated so for a home wine maker the yes but...

Sorbate keeps yeast from reproducing, ,,, eating the new sugar. Old wine does not have live yeast, ,,, a year, ,,, 9 months. Young wine...

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Looks like you have a handle on how to proceed. I would add the enzyme first step then let sit. There will be more juice afterward and...

First, I’ll say there are lots of ways to make decent or better wine, few are wrong per se but there are poor, good, better, best, etc...

Howdy Dale, welcome to WMT

What the Clinitest result is telling you, is the amount of sugar/glucose in the liquid being tested. It's not meant for winemaking, it...

Do you have gravity readings? Gravity numbers give us an idea how competent the yeast are and if things are changing. * If you have a...

Your basic definition of done is the yeast stop consuming sugar. It is finished if the reading doesn’t change. That said I have had...

To answer your first question, Fermcalc tells me that 10 g of sugar added to 1 L of water gives a SG of 1.004. But your overall...

I really like soft tannins in about 20% of the crabs I taste. I feel it is a good addition to any wine. You will find it if you look...

You can still collect/ use the berries. I have had two paper grocery sacks on the shelf for winter projects. It is shelf stable. The...

Welcome to WMT Making wine is cooking. Does the wine taste sweet ? yes ~ then there is a lot of sugar and something will grow to eat...