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hi sean99, thanks for sharing the recipe. i'm making rice wine now but with a bit different method. after layering the rice with winr biscuit, i put it in the straining bag then put the bag in a bucket with lid. i close the bucket with lid but attach the airlock to the lid. now i'm wondering...

Hi Troy, I knew this is a very old post, but I'm interested with your idea. Could you please share your experience using fruit extract? Cheers. Gilang

Adding oak will increase the body of wine. Actually, we need tannin to increase the body, so in my opinion we could substitute oak with tannin powder to increase the body. cmiiw.

ah, that's a good idea, will try to find wine making supplies there i've just racked my must anw, it looks less than 1 liter now, i racked it into 1,5 liters pet bottle i tasted it and you're right, the alcohol is not strong.. the ph was about 4, i used ph strips to measure. i took some must...

Wow, that's a good tutorial salcoco, thanks for letting me know about that. I'm from Indonesia, winemaking is not common here so there is no wine supply shop. This is my first experiment, so I prefer using ingredients which is easy to get. I will use wine yeast in another experiment perhaps...

well, i'd like to provide more complete info. this wine was made with fresh fruit, but it's my bad not adding kmeta before pitch the yeast. i used papaya peel to substitute pectic enzyme, it's just about 1/4 medium sized papaya, minced. i let it sit 24 hrs with the must, covered with cloth. it...

hi all, i got white film on my apple wine surface. the pictures are attached. i actually have made a mistake from the beginning by using metal fermenter for the first fermentation. now the wine has been 2 weeks in first racking. i rack it in 6 liters plastic carboy sanitized. in the 1st week...

hi james, i've just finished read a winemaking book. http://www.homebrewit.com/winebook.pdf the book said that we need the must with SG of 1.080 for a good start. please let us know how the fermentation with SG of 1.092 was going