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    Chocolate Raisin Wine?

    Btw it may be worth asking, is 5kg of raisins for 5 to 6 gallons acceptable? What would be a good SG as I want to have about 12% to 14% ABV and slightly sweet product?
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    Chocolate Raisin Wine?

    Thanks all! Very helpful advice. I am leaning towards dark raisins with chocolate but am wondering which yeast to go for. Would Cote de Blanc not be suitable? I guess dark raisins would be equivalent to a red or sherry style wine?
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    Chocolate Raisin Wine?

    Hi, After making 2 large batches of Wine which turned out "okay", and 1 large batch of Mead back in 2007 thru 2009, I got rid of my glass carboys (too dangerous with 2 young kids around). I'd like to get back into it, as all of my bottles are long gone. This time around, I'm going to buy...
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    Almost bottling time for varietal mead

    Wow. Somehow my carboys just sat for the almost 2 years, waiting for me to "get around to" the final racking. Last night my wife threatened to dump everything if I didn't get my *** in gear. Somehow this stuff didn't turn rancid! It is quite fantastic, in fact!!! I did a final racking from 7...
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    Almost bottling time for varietal mead

    Hi, I have about 7 gallons of gorgeous looking mead almost ready for the bottle. Hard to believe I started this in early May of 2008! I was planning on bottling it in summer of this year (well, actually, in spring of this year to coincide with the birth of my daughter, but I never got...
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    Make bread with WINE yeast? :D

    Well, as mentioned, I made bread this past weekend using wine yeast. I used a packet of Cotes des Blancs, and made the bread using a bread making machine. The loaf came out PERFECT -- absolutely perfect shape, colour, and texture -- except it was about 75% of the normal size. It also felt a...
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    Wine Expert Wine Conditioner

    Thanks for your reply. To be honest, I added less than the recommended amount by about 1/2. :p However, in my defense, this was because I wanted to end up with only a semi-sweetened wine. I did not add any sorbate, because it is difficult to get in my area, and because I was under the...
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    Make bread with WINE yeast? :D

    Kevinski324, thanks for your interesting post. I guess I'll give it a try next weekend when I bake some bread. Lord knows I have no other use for Red Star Montrachet after everybody here scared me off of it. :p (I also have a sachet of Cotes des Blancs as well as Lalvin EC-1118. Any...
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    Wine Expert Wine Conditioner

    I was just wondering how many people here have had "issues" with Wine Expert Wine Conditioner? I had an absolutely wonderful peach wine last year made with EC-1118 which I then fined, filtered, sulphited, and then finally back-sweetened with Wine Expert's so-called, "Wine Conditioner". Now I...
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    What is the best and the worst you made in 2007

    Did you say, "Wine Expert Wine Conditioner"? The same one that caused my originally gorgeous Peach wine to become cooking wine? Okay, now I'm intrigued (and a bit pissed off as well). I'm going to start a new thread and see if others have had problems with this product. :p
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    Super Automatic bottle filler

    Hooked it up backwards? :D Could you tell us the make/model of your bottle filler and describe how you hooked it up and how you started the flow?
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    racking to carboy

    I've done the marble routine with a 6 gallon carboy. I haven't had any breakage problems but I am slightly nervous everytime I drop the marbles in. No, the wine does not slow down the rate of descent very much. (No more than water would, anyway.) And no, I don't think tilting a huge carboy...
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    First taste of awesomeness! (Peach, Mixed Berry)

    Btw, what I'm *really* looking forward to is this mixed berry batch sitting in secondary now. But that'll be an even longer wait. :-(
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    First taste of awesomeness! (Peach, Mixed Berry)

    The recipe is from the "Winemaking" book by Anderson and Anderson. I scaled it up to 6 gallons from 5 as follows: 8.16 Kg of fresh peaches 1.2 litres of white grape concentrate 4.8 kg. sugar 7.2 litres of hot water 2.5 teaspoons yeast nutrient 2.5 teaspoon pectic enzyme 3.6 teaspoon tannin 10...
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    First taste of awesomeness! (Peach, Mixed Berry)

    Hi all: Some of you may remember that I started a 6 gallon peach wine back on August 17th. After racking several times, fining and filtering, and about 2.5 months of bulk aging, I finally bottled the peach yesterday. The hydrometer showed a 0.90, and because the recipe started out as a...
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