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I'm on my 4th batch of wine since starting this hobby and each batch has completed fermentation in about 7 days. It really don't take a month to ferment like they say but more so for clarifying and letting sediment settle out. once you stabilize , myself anyway you can start drinking if you...

so its best to just place a towel over it for the first couple days is what your saying ?

why not just lock the lid down right away? I have always done that and put my air lock on from the begging ?

I just wanted to share my newest wine creation. I followed Wades recipe for the white grape Niagara but my ingredients was somewhat different. Wades recipe was as follows 5.5 Gallons - Welch’s White Grape Juice 11 Tsps - Acid Blend 5 lbs - Sugar 3 tsp - Pectic Enzyme 6 tsp - Yeast Nutrient...

Great to hear it turned out good. Im on my 3rd batch and think it gonna be my best. Learning learning learning and finding what you like I guess. The peach sounds good. I found out too that a few weeks of sitting really does tame the more strong or bitterness out of it a little and the flavor...

I have followed wade's recipe here except that I mixed 100 % white grape juice with a few jugs of 100% Blueberry juice. It is done, I have stabilized and added my clearing agents and its pretty clear already. It smells pretty good , I took a taste sample and its pretty strong right now. I know...

From my first wine kit it stated 30 days total to completion in which my wine was done 0.0996 in one week. I made one batch with welches grape juice and have another going right now and the results are comparing the same or close, it is only taking under 2 weeks to totally ferment out. Since it...

I have never stirred either. I was under the impression I should not, what benefit do you feel you get from stirring it ? Thanks

Wade, I used Brewcraft nutrient and energizer. and I use Lalvin EC-1118 yeast.

my starting SG on day 1 was 1.085. Today Day 4 SG is at 1.028. I took a sip from my tester and it seems if there is a early indication that making this from pure juice is going to be very good compared to samples from my old water down recipes I used sofar. It's probably fine I just thought the...

I started a new batch of wine 4 days ago. I used the recipe I found on here using 5.5 gallons of pure wleches white grape juice, I followed the recipe and its got a strong smell to it right now. Its in a plastic fermenting right now with bung and its not horrible but its enough that when I come...

I don't think it matters, all preference. Myself I drank my first batch of wine in a month so the way I go through it I am not really worried about it lol.

thanks for your thoughts, I am going to try pure juice I think as I found a recipe on this site that calls for pure juice. I like to experiment so I guess its fun to learn.

My 2nd , recent batch of wine I started with ... 4 96 oz bottles of pure welches white grape juice, water to get 5 gallons. I added sugar untill I got a starting SG of 1100. I added appropriate yeast nutrient. fermentation went good. according to math and from drinking a little one thing I did...

I am on making my 2nd batch of wine now and I never though much about it at first when I started this hobby but I got me some ph strips for testing. These strips have a PH range of 1-14, what I am unsure about is what am I looking for for a good ph level ? There not really any standard I find...

question This recipe sounds great! I might try it I think, Im currently making a improvised wine from welches white grape juice peach flavored with that I added some welches raspberry concentrate. I used 4 64oz bottles of grape juice and like 4 cans of raspberry concentrate. My question about...

I im curious bentonite is labeled a clarifying agent. Now I did this with the 1st wine kit I used but I am wondering why would I add a clarifying agent on day 1 before fermentation even begins ? My current batch is a self recipe experiment I am using welches white grape and the fermenting seems...

skeeter pee and adding flavors The skeeter pee recipe caught my attention, I am curious though since lemmon is such a strong taste to begin with has anyone experimented with adding other kinds of flavoring to it ? What do you think of throwing in a can of 100% raspberry frozen concentrate to...

The first time I made wine I used a kit I purchased but wasn't really all too satisfied with it. I guess it was alcohol is all I can say. I've been thinking now Id like to try to make a recipe from scratch, also keeping costs down too. Just for experimental purposes to see what it would turn out...

Hello, I am trying to make my first batch of wine. It is a fruit wine Red Zinfandel. The instructions said upon my first reading my SG should been between 1.055-1.065, mine was 1.056. Temp states around 77 deg. is best mine has been 79 or 80. Instructions say after 5 days take gravity test, if...