Recent content by winemakingrookie

Absolutely. I don't plan on using mason jars for storage, just an unnecessary detail I added to my comment. I'll be buying a bunch of bottles at auctions from now on!

I'll hold ya too that, but will try to ask informed questions lol

Maybe my concern was half justifed, I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day lol And yes. I'm preparing myself for the mental anguish of waiting.

I have collected tons of mason jars for canning from local auctions, and from now on will be bidding on bottles and carboys.

Thank you all so much for the kind welcomes!

You have been incredibly helpful, thank you for your detailed responses, and the links to your documentation. I'll be giving these a read over the next week and applying them to my first batch. I will return with updates, and most likely many more questions than answers lol

Should keep me busy this weekend, maybe I'll just skip the library lol, thanks.

I'll take your word not to try it on my first batch, but will definitely be looking into this. Thanks for the response!

I appreciate the tip from you and @BigDaveK about many recipes being light on fruit, I'll keep this in mind moving forward. 1.) Primary fermenter is a 6.5 gallon food grade bucket, for Secondary I have purchased 5, 1 gallon carboys for exactly the reason you pointed out, so I wouldn't have to...

Well to start a 4 gallon batch of strawberry wine, and thank you so much for the links! I love delving into the literature, so if there are any other good resources that you know of I would be much obliged. I was going to make a library run this evening to set up for the long weekend.

Thanks, glad to join!

Oh that's awesome! I'll be sure to join, as, I can use all the help I can get lol

Thanks for the reply! I do have a hydrometer already. Funny story, I bought one, and had it in my truck when I went to pick up a friend of mine, I forgot it was on my truck seat and he sat directly on the case smashing it to bits, so I am already on hydrometer #2 lol. My original concern...

First of all, Thank you for the response! To your first point: for my calculations I have used the USDA provided sugar content of 4.89grams sugar/100grams strawberries as an average. I totally get that this won't be perfect, but I figured it would give me a pretty fair starting point. In...

Hey folks! I've lurked around here for a few weeks in anticipation of making my first ever batch of wine. In recent years, my father and I have started significantly increasing our fruit production at our little farm outside of STL MO. So, to help utilize some of this extra fruit we have, I...