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Soaked the corks prior to use, and yes i bottled right after i add the wine conditioner. Sorry I didn't check the ph on the wine, the wife and I just tasted the wine found it to be to our liking and bottled. Didn't use anything to clear the wine.

Ok I made 3 gallons of elderberry wine using the recipe on the vintner's harvest can. I fermented till dry then bulked aged it around 2 months. Wife asked me to bottle it for a x-mas party. So I washed and star san'd all the bottles. I racked over to a bucket added some wine conditioner to taste...

Well I used the Oxyclean stuff that said double strengh makes lable removal easy! LIES! LOL! The paper lable was gone already and had tried the razor blade scrapping couple weeks earlier. Had to quit for the day and got started back today working on the glue that was left. The glue was in the...

I bought some 70% Isoproply alcohol to try and cut the glue off the outside of some wine bottles I had de-labeled for my use at home. The glue laughed at me over that one.:) What I ended up using, and this may cause some to cringe, was some WD-40 on a old wash cloth. This stuff is amazing...

Then run the ferment to completion, sulphite/sorbate to stabilise, then back sweeten to 1010 (if you haven't already cleared it, I'd use honey to back sweeten). Then rack it onto the fruit, adding some pectic enzyme, which not only helps with pectin but also colour/flavour extraction. You...

Will keep my eye on that. Thanks Mike!

12.5-14 pounds of honey 4 gallons of water or enough to make 5 gallons 2 tsp. yeast energizer 2 tsp. of yeast nutrient and yeast starter According to the recipe I should have a starting gravity of around 1.094-1.112. With the mead finishing around 1.010. I am confused as to what point I...

Well.....huh seems only part of my post went :rup. I will repost later when I can use the home pc. Typing on ones phone is a bit rough

Now that I have my 3 Gallons of Elderberry wine bulk aging in the secondary. I am ready to turn to some mead. Thinking of using Ken Schramm's recipe for a medium show mead to make 3 or 5 gallons of mead and then racking it to 1 gallon glass jug with different fruits to get several different...

Have a 3 gallon batch going of elderberry.

Ok now that I have got married, and finished the honeymoon at DisneyWorld. I have finally gotten the time to start my second batch of wine. Bought a can of VH Elderberry ran all over town to get my chemicals.Seems the local homebrew stores are in flux at the moment with the people running them...

I know a few Carpenter family but they are a few miles south of Berea in Rockcastle county. I just finished a Sauvignon Blanc kit from Vinter's Harvest. Since I am getting married at the end of the month I am holding back from starting anything else till after the honymoon.After that I am...

I am south of lexington in a town called berea

Hello all, been lurking around the forums for awhile now, Decided I should join up and be a part of all this winemaking fun.