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Hello all, It's been a while since I have been on the forum. I have been making some fruit wines and ciders over the last few years but have the 'itch' to start making something a bit more refined. I was hoping to tackle some fresh grapes or perhaps some fresh juice this year. Whites only. I...

I have two six gallon (23l) and one larger (6.5 or maybe 7 gal) carboys for sale. Clean and ready. I am moving and trying to get rid of a few things to save space on the moving truck. $20 each. I am in Temple TX and you would need to come pick up or depending how far I could perhaps meet you...

I have a batch of 2013 wild red mustang grape wine in the carboy. Fermentation has finished and I have racked the wine once. Had quite a bit of wine diamonds at the first racking. The wine smells and tastes quite good but is high in acid. I purchased some potassium bicarbonate to add to the wine...

I made a dry Grenache raspberry rose. I sweetened a few bottles and set them upright on the shelf about a month ago. I found a cork on the floor of the winery/play room a couple days ago and figured my son had mixed it in with his Legos. Today is found a bottle missing a cork and a bit of wine...

There are a couple places near me called "Painting with a twist". It is awesome! In 2-3 hours the teacher leads you through a painting that you get to take home and best of all, you get to bring your own wine. Good thing for me I know a guy that makes wine :) ha! My wife and each painted one a...

My wife has a friend that has red muscadine grapes on their property. Not sure but i assume they are wild. I am going to pick some tonight. Hopefully they are ripe. I live in Central Texas. This will be my first crack at fresh grapes. I wish I had more equipment but will make it work with what I...

I had a gift certificate to use and picked up a can of Alexander's grenache rose'. The standard recipe says it will make 2.5 gallons. Seems like an odd size so I was thinking I could add a little "something" to it and get it into a 3 gallon batch. I had a couple ideas for additions...jam, canned...

My first few batches of pee took off like a rocket. Good fermentation all the way to dry without any issues. My last batch got stuck at 1.010 and now my latest batch is creeping along. It moved from 1.080 to 1.070 in about 5 days. I am stumped at what could be the cause because I have always...

A google search for amateur wine competitions and I came across the Missouri Winemaking Society competition. Anyone on here enter this competition before? I presume it might include some of those that entered the MVWS competition. I have a couple wines that I did not submit to MVWS that I am...

I have two batches of pee that are stuck like Chuck at 1.014. This is about where i would backsweeten to so I was considering throwing in the towel and conceading defeat. Question is...what is the best way to stabilize a stuck wine? I would hate to have it start cooking in the bottle and pop the...

I started a 6 gal batch of lemon and a 6 gal batch of lime pee on 12/26. I started a hand squeezed grapefruit on 12/29. The grapefruit is clear and could be bottled tomorrow. The two batches of pee are still in secondary at 1.019 SG down from an original SG of 1.085. When I mixed up both...

I made some lemon pee last summer and flavored with strawberry. To be honest, the flavor was not that great. Not very strong and i put the bottles on the shelf. Tonight i put a bottle in the cooler and popped it. First glass was fruity and good. Put the bottle back on ice and drinking the rest...

I made a batch of apple cranberry wine a year ago from frozen concentrate juice i picked up at walmart. 2 cans apple to 1 can cranberry. It was awful when i bottled it. The only redeeming quality was that is had about 12% abv. I popped a bottle at 6 months and it was much improved. I popped...

Open to amateur winemakers from all states. Entry is $10 and 2 bottles per entry. Bottles due delivered before February 4,2013. http://www.fgga.org/floridastatefair.html

Short notice but entries are due to the Newport OR chamber of commerce by January 15. Www.seafoodandwine.com

Started this thread as a start to 2013 and list some accomplishments of myself from 2012. Feel free to post your accomplishments or revelations from 2012 as well! First a big THANKS to all those that have helped me on the forum this year. To say i couldn't have done it without this forum is an...

I have a chocolate cherry wine that is done with secondary and degassed. I was going to add super kleer or sparkolloid to it soon to clear it. Anyone have a preferred clearing agent for chocolate wines? I mixed in a lot of cocoa powder. Much of it dropped out in the fermentation but there is a...

I want to make a high alcohol chocolate cherry wine then backsweeten. I put cherry juice and 8 ounces cocoa powder in the blender and made a chocolate cherry milkshake. Then dumped the blended chocolate cherry into the primary bucket with cherry juice and sugar. Problem is my hydrometer doesnt...

I have had good luck with the WE white kits. Time to make another. I am looking for a dry and flavorful white. I have made and liked the sav blanc and pinot blanc. Was thinking about either the symphony or trinity white. Anyone who has made these have any opinions one way or another? Whatever i...

I was at a conference the past few days and was fortunate to attend a workshop that involved winemaking tools. I did a titration using all the cool tools including digital ph meters that connected through wireless to my phone and laptop. The wine i titrated was a dry red but others did analysis...