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We have started a 5-gallon batch of the Banana Spice wine featured in the purple book (Winemaker's Recipe Handbook). The recipe asks for 1 oz of cloves for a 1-gallon recipe. We decided to be conservative and only added 2 oz of whole cloves for the entire 5 gallons. We have just racked from...

I am using a pear wine recipe that says that after adding the yeast, primary fermentation should take about a week. We added the yeast starter on the 4th and it was bubbling away happily till this morning. It was pretty still this morning. Smells like alcohol. My initial SG reading before...

My husband and I are making pear wine for the first time. We are making 6 gallons and the recipe calls for 4-6 pounds per gallon. We added the fruit to a 7.9 gallon primary fermenter, but then only had room for about 1/2 the amount of water that was called for by the recipe. It said 3 1/4...