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We picked a lot of blackberries one year and I just thought one day about making wine. It was quite the experience and I made a few errors here and there. Nothing bad enough to ruin the wine. Turned out to be a medium bodied dry wine with a good note of blackberry and caramel. I got hooked after...

Has anyone run their bottles through the DW on the sterilize cycle instead of using Kmeta? Was thinking about just doing this and skipping the Kmeta.

So I was going to kickstart this with a peach slurry of Cote des Blancs but the timing just wasnt there because I had to move on and clear primaries for some accidental fruit thawing issues. Anyways. I still had the RealLemon and said what the hell and made some invert sugar, added 64oz of the...

Just mixed up a 5 gal batch of peach with 30lbs of z-ladys. It took roughly 12tsp to get the TA to just 55%. Glad I had a full bottle of sodium hydroxide. I think I tested it 3 times before I mixed in the calculated acid just to be sure. Kept getting .40 on the dot every time with 4tsp...

Went to pick up three carboys from an ad on craigslist. He had 12 total and there was this old water carboy labeled "From the hills of Hollywood: Magnetic Springs Water" Cant really find much about the company but thought it was a pretty cool bottle to hold some wine. Anyone else with some...

Going to mix this up together tonight in the primary. I am using a mix of cider and concentrate for the apple and have fresh jalapeno. Question is, I also have a pound of white raisins that I was thinking about tossing in the mix for an added layer of flavor. What do you think? Raisins in or...

K bisulfite vs K metabisulfite. Any reason not to use this as a sanitizer. My LBS had packages of this instead of K meta and he said that it should be the same. I did a little research and some have suggested that they have different uses and some have suggested that it is all K meta when mixed...

Hello all. New to the forum and to winemaking as this is my first attempt. I had a lot of extra blackberries left over from last years picking and decided that wine was the most reasonable thing to do. I did my first rack into a 5gal carboy from the primary last saturday. The fermentation seems...