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I am making my first fruit wine (1 gal peach) . . . I an following the instructions of "Enjoy Home Winemaking" by Robert & Eileen Frishman. I made the yeast start last night using 4 oz of water, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/4 tsp nutrient, and a package of wine yeast. It bubbled a little bit and...

I have a 3 1/2 gal bucket (food grade from a restaurant) with a lid. I can drill a hole in the lid and fit a stopper and air-lock. Is that too big of a container for a primary for a 1 gal batch of wine? Also, the recipes I am looking at basically say add fruit, ingredients and add water to...

I joined this forum a long time ago but never made any wine . . . I made one batch of grape wine from a kit about 10 years ago. Never made anymore after that. I am going to try again. I have 40lbs of small pears waiting outside for me to get them cut up . . . . The house my son lives in has...

I have all these grapes and am picking them off the stems at the moment. I was reading and found I don't have access to a grape press to get the juice out. My sister has a juicer. Any reason not to just run them through that to get the juice?

I have someone drop off 34lbs of Red Seedless Grapes. Of course I am thinking wine. I suppose for now I should clean them, crush them and freeze them until I find a recipe. Anything else I should do to them before I put them in the freezer? Suggested recipes? Wayne

I keep reading about an F-Pack. So I googled and found it's essentially concentrated fruit juice (heat reduced) to add after fermentation. Is this done to add more fruit flavor into the wine? Or Sweetness? I would suspect it's more to bring out or enhance the fruit flavor? Correct?

Hello, I am in NW Arkansas. I have made one batch of a kit Riesling. It was ok. Here it is 8 years later and I am going to start another batch! :) Hopefully this one will be better tasting!

Hi All. I am new here and this is my first post. I made one batch of wine in late 2002. It was a kit Riesling. It's ok and I have a couple bottles left. I am going to start a batch of some kind of fruit wine in a couple weeks. Maybe plum or peach. I am leaning towards the peach. Anyways I...