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On October 19th I started two batches of wine. The first one is a mixed berry from frozen fruit (blueberry, strawberry, blackberry and raspberry). The other is a Winexpert LE 2013 Limited Edition South African Shirz-Cab blend with skins and seeds. I was supposed to pull the straining bags after...

Rather than reading through all the directions, as I always tell my kids, I added the initial ingredients directly to the lees from my mixed berry wine, presumably killing the yeast with the sulphites in the ReaLemon. Should I wait the recommended 48 hours and pitch the same Burgundy yeast I...

Today I just starting my first Mixed Berry Wine (5 parts Blueberry, 4 parts Strawberry and 1 part Raspberry) from 7.5 kg (~16.25 lbs) of frozen fruit. I was shooting for a 1.090 to 1.095 starting gravity. Based on Jack Keller's 3-gallon recipe (http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request113.asp), I...

I racked the secondary on 9 OCT. The instructions say that at ten days it should be at or below .996. I've been checking it every few days for more than a week, and it's holding at .998 (1.000, if you add 2 for temperature compensation--70F). There are still minimal signs of fermentation...

My brother has a batch of mead he bought as a kit at a craft fair several years ago. He can't recall the variety and has no documentation. After the primary fermentation, he poured it through a coffee filter to strain the sediment (is it called lees with mead?) and dumped it back into the...

Lon, I just picked up the current issue of Winemaker Magazine at B&N. Thanks for the brief, but very useful article on how to build your Skeeter Pee "Lunch Boxes". Never willing to use a recipe as anything more than a loose recommendation, I'm already looking forward to modifying these...

Subject variety is in the secondary and the Vintners Harvest VR21 yeast I substituted is devouring the sugars like gangbusters (reflected in both the drop in gravity and the visible liquid/airlock activity). I purchased this specific kit because the owner at my LHBS recommended it for my stated...