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Hey all, my wife is interested in making wine together at home. I'm a professional brewer and I still have a lot of my old homebrewing equipment and I also do some yeast propagation for my brewery at home, so I have flasks, 6 and 5 gallon carboys, buckets for fermentation, etc. I've been looking...

I am pretty sure my SP has been fermenting for over 2 months now. It looks like it is finally nearing completion, so I just added more energizer to try to help speed it along. I will not be using champagne yeast again. Most likely sticking to 1118 from now on. Hopefully it is worth the wait. I...

Interesting... I had been under the impression that topping up with water made the wine taste watered down. This seems to be the general consensus on this forum at least.

I have a box of Redvolution Bota Box wine, and I was thinking about topping off with it for my Australian Shiraz when I transfer in a few days. Revolution is just a red blend that I enjoy... Not a great wine, but nice to have around.

Thanks guys... I just wanted to know what to expect. I could see them being a hit with some friends.

I was at Wally's World today and saw that Arbor Mist had a Strawberry Zinfandel. I decided to pick it up since I was thinking about getting a strawberry Zinfandel or riesling from Orchard Breezin. I think it is OK. I was wondering if anyone could describe how Orchard Breezin compares to Arbor...

Welcome. Nice to have someone else from around here. (Huntsville)

Thanks for the response. The strawberry Riesling I was looking at is an Orchard Breezin' kit. I normally order from brewmasterswarehouse.com, but I would be willing to try another website to get something that they don't have. I wasn't really hoping for a match the commercial wine, but that...

I guess most people are making reds?

Great minds think alike ;) I was planning on this also.

Now that my Australian Shiraz is under way, I am wanting to start another batch already. I am thinking that a Riesling, White Zin, and a Mist Wine kit are what's up next. The first wine I ever had was a Schmitt Sohne Riesling and I also like Dr. Loosen and my fiancee and her mom both like white...

Good to hear I was close! I want to make a kit a month for a few months. I may even do a mist wine kit. I also just found a guy on Craigslist that is willing to part with 200 bottles that he says are cleaned and cork able for 50$.

All right... I need to get my iMac out of hibernation (I normally use my iPad these days) and I will get started on this. All info that goes onto the site will rely on submitted material. If, when I get this started, there is anything left off that people feel is important, I will gladly add...

I just started my first kit. It is a Cru Select Australian Shiraz. Everything seemed to go well. I annoy certain what the OG was supposed to be, but I measured it at 1.094. I am excited about it!

What I am imagining is a site where you would click on the name of the kit, then you would see a picture of the wine in a glass and a picture of the kit. Then, there would be a table. One column would say "Original Gravity" then the corresponding column would have the list. There would be a...

IF I did something like this, I would take all the major brands and list more specific info. (OG, FG, and Yeast would be starting points) and when one person entered information, another person would need to confirm it before it is put up. Kind of like an open resource database with reviews more...

Cool, I will update when this is done. I did make the original recipe verbatim about 6 months ago and I drank the last bottle about 1 month ago, so I will include a memory based review of how it turns out.

Ok... Would I be going into a banned area if I started a website specifically for taking kits, writing reviews and placing specific information and included a link to the forums? I think it could help increase traffic rather than take away traffic. I would love to help get people into the hobby...

I am wondering if there is a site that has specifics of kits before you buy them. For example, I am looking at the Cru Select white chocolate white port kit, but I can not find anywhere what the expected original or final gravity of the wine is... Even in the instructions I got from Cru Select...

Ok... Here is what I am thinking. Based on an earlier comment, a double batch when fortified is brought up to 8 gallons. I could do a double batch, top up a 6 gallon better bottle with a small amount of brandy if needed, then add more brandy at bottling time to do the actual fortifying. Sound...