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Hello beer making folks I've been making wine for a while now and I really enjoy it. However, I prefer drinking beer. Part of what is great about making wine is that I can, through a labor I enjoy, turn ingredients I can find in the grocery store into wine at a lower cost/bottle than buying...

Hello everybody, It's been a while since I was here last. I am currently making my third wine and my largest batch so far and have run into a bit of a snag and I hope somebody might be able to me out of it. The wine: (as accurately as my skill can determine) Concord grape juice concentrate...

Hello everybody, I am interested in making a fresh batch of something with the specific goal of cooking with it. So either a wine or mead that will work well for cooking. I am only 22 and have very little experience in both brewing (made 3 batches) and wine (drinking or cooking). Does...

I have reach the end of the process of making my first batch. It is a cherry vinter's harvest wine base. I did the whole primary bucket fermentation and then when my sg reached .990 I racked it to the carboy where it has been sitting (there is some lees on the bottom but not too much i think)...

so I have been fermenting my first batch for a while, it's cherry. I put it in the primary bucket for about a week with just a towel on. when the sg hit about 1.040 I put the fermentation lock on it. There are no bubbles for a couple of days now. So I have two questions 1) what do...

Now that I have my first batch going what do I do? The recipe says to stir it every day (the top only) for the next 4 or 5 days till the sg gets to 1.040 and then rack to secondary? does that sound about right? Would it work better to not stir? Do I need to do anything after racking? I...

As I wrote in my last thread I just started my first batch two nights ago. I put in 5 campden tablets for 5 gallons of wine (including the volume of the cherries in it which is probably about a quarter gallon). I also made a yeast starter by putting the yeast in a jug with some water, 1 tsp of...

I have collected everything I will need (also I switched my plan from fresh peaches to cherry concentrate) and will be starting my first batch of wine in just a few hours. I just wanted to double check my plans with some more experienced wine makers: 1) mix 1 tablespoon sodium...

Would using plastic jugs rather than glass carboys have any effect on the out come of my wine?

I have been to the supermarket to check out their fruit prices strawberries are $2 a pound and plums and peaches are about $1 a pound I would prefer to use strawberry except that the price difference is probably going to drive me to use one of the other two. I now have to conquer my...

Hello everybody I am planning to start my first batch of wine in early September and am working out the last few kinks needed to get things started. I have all my equipment for a 6 gallon batch all I need now is a recipe. I was thinking of possibly making fruit wine because I know where...