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I Met a vintner from california when I told him I made some wine out of oranges he was alarmed. He said you had to be very careful with citrus or you can produce a toxin that can damage your sight. Does any one on the forum know any thing about this

I have a quick fix my girlfriend calls"Duct tape for wine" I use DEKUYPER SCHNAPPS for the F-pack. The flavoring they use is top notch, and it only has 15% alcohol by volume so using it does not change your alc/vol the sugar in it is sufficient to back sweeten. I've been here a while, and have...

I did a starch test and a pectin test neither I trusted much but the peach has not cleared at all in 4 months. what gives? Thinking of using kieselsol and chitosan please advise. Thank you :tz:tz:tz:tz:tz:tz

I used 110 lbs of late season free stone peaches to make 25 gallons of wine. We added 36 lbs sugar. I had used Wade's recipe but my girlfriend added about 10 gallons of water. I thought it would be thin but it doesn't seem to be. The starting sg was 1.076 a little low but we went with it. It...

I cannot find any thing more on the max pressure attained by fermentation. Any one else Know more?:a1 "The aim of this work is to investigate the possibility of producing ethanol by glucose fermentation under high pressure of carbon dioxide up to 48 bar, in order to exploit both ethanol and...

I bought country fair plumb 2 cans(48oz) and added (96oz) frozen plumbs for a 5 gal batch of wine and it tastes terribly watery. Any one else had any experience with this brand from E.C. Krauss?:s

I had washed a rubber plug which had jumped out of a 5 gal carboy full of wine. when i went to shove it back into the neck (a tight fit) it popped down into the carboy>what is the best way to get it out? :slp:slp:tz

back from vacation to Bonaire netherlands Antilles great trip but when i returned was very disappointed with my Pineapple.999sg and my orange wine.1016 sg. both were sour and very bitter. The pineapple was bitter too and had very little flavor , the orange had more natural flavor but tasted...

Can you freeze an active must or the active lees and later thaw and use to activate another must with that yeast culture?:a1

Wondering how long to leave the pulp from the pineapple in the mesh bag. In the primary must?

Any one have a recipe for pineapple wine I scored 10 pineapples and want to mix some concentrate for a 5 gallon batch

I have some fresh pressed cider frozen the trees produced well resulting in about 60 gallons of press. this took some time to complete while the juice was setting on the porch aprox 3 days there was an indication of some wild yeasties dining. we put the appropriate amount of camden tabs per...

New to the forum want to learn more about making wine