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I'm making my first white wine from my own grapes (just moved in last year) and although I made ciders I'm anxious to ruin my first batch of home made wine, I really hope it to succeed. And with this anxiousness comes doubt, according to the diary I'm keeping track of the progress, the...

I got 1 not 2, maybe should buy a spare one. But do you advice to measure now or wait x days? The residue which turned up in the bottle (after first rack), can it harm my wine or maybe it's even a good thing for the body?

I crushed my grapes for white wine, added them together with yeast, Suger, some acid and little bit of sulfite to a bucket to go through first fermentation (which had alot activity). After 4 days the fermentation slowed down (but still went on) and decided to rack to a 5L fermentation bottle...

I have experience with ciders, but this year I'm going to make the first wine from my own grapes. I understand what Pecto enzymes do with the grape, but when I crushed the grapes and add the Pecto, will the crushed grapes don't turn the white wine into rose/red as I understand, letting the...

I'm currently in the proces of making 20L Elderflower cider, I want to make 10L of Sparkling en 10L still. Now I accidentally put the fill 20L through a filter (MK4 Filter Pads 000 Sterile). I'm quite certain I filtered most if not all yeast, can I add new yeast through half of my batch before...

Thank I will get some 23L buckets and some extra bottles, thanks for your help!

I currently have an issue with to few (empty) bottles and some wines which have to be made. I do have two 20L buckets, but i have always thought buckets were less good, as there is more space for air/oxygen, which is bad for the wine. Will it greatly affect the wine (negatively) or can I use...

So would you recommend to add twice?

I have added sulfites at the start of the proces

I'm making 30L of wine and during my holiday (3 weeks) it has been fermenting. When I returned home, I noticed that one lock had an equal water level, meaning fermentation would be over, the other were still fermenting though. After some good inspection, the level of wine in the one that was...

About 5 month's ago I got my self enough elderflower to make 20L of cider. End of august it looked like the fermentation was over, I added bentonite to clear my wine. The instruction said it would need to rest for a month before botteling. I just wanted to do that, but I was suprised to see...

I totally forgot about this question, until I asked myself the same question today. I don't think it wil crack all the seeds, but i'm sure some will be cracked.

This week I got myself enough elderflower to make 20L of wine/cider, because I didn't pour hot/cooking water over the elderflower (can I do this in the future?), I was afraid and to be sure I put in 2gr sulfite. I wanted to add 1 or 2 rose flower leaves while bottling, but I came across some...

Earlier this year I bought a slowjuicer to get enjoy fresh fruitjuices. I'm wondering if this could be a great way to press grapes and get optimal amount of juice, what do you guys think?

One more question, I followed the recipe so after fermenting I stir it for a few times waited and repeated that for 2-3 times. But reading on the internet this is maybe not enough to get the CO2 out of the wine. Can I after the wine has cleared stir more and for how long should I be doing this?