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Wanted to say thank you again to Home Brew Supply for having the contest in which I won the Winexpert Eclipse Lodi Old Vine Zinfandel. I got around to starting it on Sunday and it is fermenting along nicely.

Some of my Blackberries have this problem anyone know what it is? And are they okay to make wine with or not? Triple Crown and another kind, can't remember the name.

Awhile back someone asked if you could use the vinbrite filter with a vacuum pump. The answer is yes! I do have to add it was no faster than the gravity method, maybe even a little slower. 3 gallons in about 15 minutes. I used a orange carboy cap and inserted a short piece (about 4") of...

This formed on the side and bottom of my Concord. It is like a sand. It was racked and stabilized about two weeks ago, however I haven't backsweetened yet. It was like a sand texture and was hard to get off the side of the jug, I had to use a bottle brush. Will yeast get hard when it dies off...

I sort of messed up stabilizing my 3 gallon batch of White Grape Peach. I racked and added 1/8 tsp of K-meta and 1/2 tsp of Sorbate (even wrote it down). A few days later I realized I should of added 1 1/2 tsp of sorbate. I added 1 more tsp at that time. Is this going to be okay or do you...

This is my recipe for white grape peach. 6 64 oz bottles of Great Value White Grape Peach ½ lbs Sugar 1 ½ tsp Pectic Enzyme 3 tsp citric acid 3 tsp yeast nutrient 1 tsp yeast energizer 1 tsp Bentonite 1/8 tsp K-Meta Lalvin K1v-1116 This is the third time making it and I tried a little...

Can a wine ferment without any airlock activity? I started a 1 gallon trial Apple wine with the idea of it having a low ABV of around 7% fermenting to dry using priming sugar to carbonate and bottling in beer bottles for a summer fun drink. Recipe was: 4 1/2 quarts of steamed apple juice 1...

Anyone in Central PA, Shade Mountain Winery & Vineyards selling grapes, steuben grapes are available now: $1.50/lb or 20lbs for $25.00. Don't know anything else just letting you all know. I seen this on their facebook page.

I was to Flavor Fest this weekend here in PA. According to their web site they had a amateur wine making contest. Results are posted here http://www.parenfaire.com/flavorfest/competitions.html I have a question; Is it legal to have a amateur wine making contest in PA? I heard it wasn't but...

My new wine BLOG I've posted the link on a few other forums, figured I'd post it here also. I've been making wine for a year now. I posted some of the steam juice recipes I've used and will be adding more once I see how they come out. This gives me something to do while waiting for my wine to...

Anyone know if I can plant Black Currants and Red Currants in the same area or should I keep them apart.

While new to this, I read a lot and I'm trying to figure out the best time to sweeten my wines. Most of what I have read says after racking from secondary degas, add sulfite and sorbate, backsweeten and F-pac then age. My question is if you are going to age for lets say a year why would you...

How many Cayuga grape vines would I need to plant to get enough grapes to make 3 gallons of wine?

Do you need to add kmeta and sorbate to a port style wine when racking?

If I have a raspberry wine that is to sweet would adding citric acid hide some of the sweet?

I got in a hurry and bottled a 1 gallon batch of Plum/Apple Wine to fast and ended up with sediment in the bottom of the bottles. I opened them and poured them back into a gallon jug and put in a air lock. Can I add Super-Kleer and wait say 2 weeks and re-bottle?

I'm starting a Vintner's Harvest Cranberry and everything was going fine until I checked the pH and Acid. I'm using the 3 gal recipe off the label: 1 96oz can cranberry fruit base 3 1/2 cans water 6 lbs sugar 2 1/2 tsp yeast nutrient 1 tsp pectic enzyme 1 can 12oz white grape...

I started a berry port style wine two weeks ago. I used what was left from steam juicing 21 lbs of Blackberries, 2 lbs of Raspberries, and 7 lbs of Blueberries. Tossed all in paint strainer bag. Added all the normal stuff and sugar to a S.G. of 1.070 then added 1/2 cup of malt which shot the...

I have a question I can't seem to find a good answer to. Is there a certain % of alcohol that should be in a fruit wine to keep it safe from spoiling once bottled? The only thing I've found is on Jack Keller's site and it says "</font></font>In truth, a hair over 10% alcohol is all that's...

This is what I have in my bucket right now, hoping it tastes as good as it smells. While cleaning bottles and removing labels I came across a Apple Blackberry wine called Blackberry Blast. That along with reading a Jam wine thread somewhere got me to thinking I should try something along that...