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I enjoy making the wine from out own fruit, and local fruit. Best of all I love to share it with family and friends.

Secondary fermentation.... Ok all the secondary fermentation strated,,, should prove intresting, my pumpkin mash/fruit in the mesh bag basically turned to fine mash, except the out side skin. I ended up place my 2 gallon batch into a 3 gallon carboy, filled it tot he brim. So we will see...

what I did..... carved up about 13 pounds of pumpkin, about half had the skin on, used 4 cans of Libby Pumpkin Pie mix, ad spice to my taste, added brown sugar instead of refine white sugar. then followed the typical recipe... cant remember who's but got it of a regualr wine site were most here...

Alright all I am going to try a pumken wine reciepe from here but some cloves/spices added and use brown sugar instead. I am going to freeze the pumpkin meat or pulp as you call it I guess, should it be witht he skin left on for the tannin in it or should I remove it before freezing...

Sorry everyone,,, the one gallon of water was the "original: pear recipe for basically on gallon of wine, I used 5 gallons with 35 poinds of pears,,,, only think I have changed was the sugar,,, I added sugar till I reach 1.08... And that is the yeast I will be using,,, Thank you all for...

Hello All, The last coupl e of years I have made about 2 gallons of pear wine from our tree. This year we had a bumper year,,,,, we froze, (decored and skinned) 70 pounds. So I want to ferment a 5 gallon batch, I was wondering how much yeast should I used for a 5 gallon batch? This is the...

Hello will it's fall time, time to start making more pear wine from the summer fruit. This year hIhave enought o make 15 gallons of pear wine. I plan on making 10 or my true and tried recipe. But with my other 5 galloons was thinking of doing a twist, I was thinking of adding brown sugar...

Hello all, My black sweet cherry wine (aka Flathead Cherry) is getting to the final stages. Question 1) Should I do the fining before I add sorbate or after? Question 2) I have heard using egg's for fining agent on dark red wine is best? So is it? what what would you all recommend for...

NO I never used any K-meta and sorbate... Today I took another Hydro reading one it has stopped, the other bottles have a little ways to go... Oh well when they top fermenting I will do it this time... Thanks for advice

I have a question concerning fermentation. Quick back ground I have been making wine for abut a year. I prefer dry wines, but will the girl friend wants some sweeter wine. My Orange-Banana wine was about ready to be bottled. The wine has been racked twice settlement very fine, small...

thanks all I will check the SG, I did back sweeten it. The wine does not taste fuzzy, actually taste pretty good,,,smiles,,, I will keep tabs,,, Thanks all, and as the saying goes "drink no wine before its time" Denis

Hi all, last fall I made some wine, orange banana wine, as well as a black sweet cherry wine, locally known as Flathead Cherry's. Wine taste good the Orange almost ready to bottle,,, the cherry needs more time. BUt as the tempter has risen in my so call celler,, from a cool 50 to around 62...

Hey winemaker hey winemaker how about sharing your recipe, I want to make some apple spice wine here as well later this fall when those apples get nice and ripe

Hi all, over the summer thought it be cool to submit my pear wine to the state fair I got 2nd place out of about 20 differant home made wines. Once I get the judging score cards, I will post what they said.. then ask for your thoughts on how to imporve it. For now here is my question...

thanks.... I will try it,,,,, I have a limited amount.... bad year in Montana or fruit here... I will post my results when I start...

Hi all, do you need sufites in wine? I have a freind who if they have wine with sulfites they get very bad headackes, so would like ot mkae sme wine for her with out sulfites. And tannin, what does this do for wine? I have a cherry recipe calling for it,,, and have enver used it before...

Brek down to 24 proof... pplease define this... I have never heard of this before...thanks

Hello all.. I am seeking a recipe for tart (pie) cherry wine. Our tree produced pounds of cherries. They are tart in flavor, we were told the previous owners plant a pie cherry tree. tart flaver to them unil sweetened with sugar. Does any one have a good recipe out there for a tart cherry wine?

experment yeah it will be interesting, first this wine was purely and experment, I got bored waiting for my home grown fruit to grow... So I tried this recipe,,, cant hurt to work on my skill's. Worst I can do is give it to my relatives... I did remove the peels after the first 24 hours.. I...

hmmmmm missed typed...bad eyes I wwas wrong the should be differant shgouldhave used my glass's both to type and read.... They should be 1.09 and 1.06,,,,,,sorry all...