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Kinkakuji Temple. Its in Kyoto, Japan.

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Thanks everyone for the help! I would never have thought to add the malic acid and oak powder tannin!

I've decided to try and make some Apfelwein but I have 2 questions before I get started. All of the recipes are suggesting to use Montrachet Wine Yeast but can I use Pasteur instead without ruining it? None of the recipes I have looked at have mentioned camdon tablets. Should I use camdon...

Just giving an update. the SG reading is at 1.050 now and the smell is totally gone

So I took another SG reading tonight. no change :(

Sorry it took me a while to get back with everyone. You have all been so helpful and so quick with the replies too. I appreciate it so much! I took an SG reading. It is at 1.070. Oh and me being the newbie I am thought I would remember the SG reading I took on monday. I know now that I need to...

Yes we waited 24 hours before adding the yeast. We not not have an air lock on it. directions told us to put a damp towel over it so we did that. tonight my fiance stirred it a whole bunch. the smell has gone down a bit. i'll check again tomorrow

Okay so when my fiance told me 1999 he was talking about something else. the date on it is June 2010 sorry about that. little mis communication on my part. so i think we are going to just stir it a whole bunch tonight and see what happens

I know we sanitized everything when we started and we are using a food grade bucket and we used it for the first batch of wine that turned out fine. the can was canned over 10 years ago, 1999. Could that be the issue?

the must is at 75 degrees F. we added 4 tsp of must on sunday like the directions said. then on monday I added 1/2 tsp. Could I have added too much? I am so surprised I am having this issue especially after our first batch of grape wine turned out great.

I know that we added measurements to the must based on what the directions on the can told us to do. except the yeast nutrient since I added in more yesterday when I started to smell it. on monday it wasn't a very strong smell but today it has gotten stronger. someone suggested that I transfer...

Hello I am making my second batch of wine. I decided to make strawberry wine and so I picked up a can of vinter's harvest fruit wine base. I followed directions to make a 5 gallon batch. First we sanitized. we used cheese cloth as our straining bag which it told us to leave in the fermentator...