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About a year and a half ago, we had some pumpkins that did not make it to Jack o Lanterns or pie, and being the waste not want not type, Mr Abby decided to make Pumpkin wine. Everything has ticked along swimmingly, and now it is time to bottle it. There is one problem: Flavour. Namely, it...

After several years of using kits, Mr Abby and my self have branched out into trying other things. I am trying my first mead using this recipe: Fall Metheglin ============== 1 cup Dried apple 2 large Cinnamon sticks 1 tablespoon Dried lemon peel or rind of 1 fresh lemon 12 Cloves 1 teaspoon...

Has anyone here been troubled by very low beginning S.G. in winexpert kits of late? I have been using their kits for a couple of years now and they have always worked flawlessly. However, a couple of months ago I started a batch of Selection Original Symphony and it had the lowest beginning...

I've had some good chardonnay, but I have also had some that is so oaky, you might as well be chewing on a tree. Most kits, unless stated otherwise, of course, include oak in one form or another. I am just interested in the preferences of members: put it in, leave it out, add less..?

Just yesterday, my dear hubby and I paid a visit to one of the two repositories of all things useful: Princess Auto. (The other is Canadian Tire, but I digress). We left there with several things, one of which is a smoke cooker (I plan to experiement with that) and the other is a small (16...

Just started today, with my 23 liters of sterilized must. Poured it into the primary fermenter, stirred in the betonite, then the oak. As my humble basement is a tad on the cool side - seldom above 70F on the warmer side and never higher than about 60F on the cool side of the basement, I did...

I wound up on a emailing list from a brewshop down in Halifax. I stopped in there just to see what they have in stock, and I noticed this system of wine storage: http://www.noblegrape.ca/wine/wine_ontap.htm Has anyone here used it? If so, what do you think of it; good, bad, or indifferent?

We all have them, some of them attainable in the short term, some of them in the long, and some that aren't just going to happen. What are yours? What kit, piece of equipment or opportunity are you dreaming of? Just to prime the pump, I will share a couple of mine, pedestrian though they...

I am a relative newbie to wine making, as I only started last fall. Thus far, my wine making has been limited to kits. This hobby, though, is becoming highly addictive. I started off with the bare minimum of equipment - one primary, one carboy, hydrometer, J tube, hose, wine thief, bottle...