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Not sure if this is the right section to post this, but if not please feel free to move. Our grape buying co-op is looking for a few interested people in the Northern Seattle/Bothell/Everett (Washington) area who might want to give wine from fresh grapes making a try. We buy from a local...

I'm going to throw this one out there for the masses, but might be more suitable in the recipe section. My wife has been pestering me to try something but I'm just not sure how it would come out. She wants me to experiment with an Orange Zin, but since I only have an abundance of Coastal Red...

K-Meta + Stainless steel = Rust! For all of those chemistry majors out there, i'd like to find out what happened recently while sanitizing some wine equipment. I was getting ready to press some grapes skins recently from my wine, and had prepped a k-meta sanitizing solution in a bucket filled...

I'll start this thread my admitting my inability to perform what seems like basic math and I would like to know if i'm coming up with the correct numbers for TA. I have a basic acid kit where you take a 15ml sample of wine and you're supposed to add 3 drops of reagent (forget the solution...

Finally taking the plunge into real wine making from fresh grapes (not kits). Frontenac grapes picked and crushed on Saturday. Sulfited Sat, pitched yeast Sunday, punching cap 2/3x per day. Now the real adventure begins! For all of you experienced folks, do I need to do anything special...

Groupon is having a heck of a deal on a beginner's wine kit for $79 including a $25 gift cert on a future purchase through one of my favorite stores - Midwest Brewing. Many of us already have fully stocked supplies, but it's a great groupon deal if you know of someone wanting to start making...

Fall is fast approaching and I want to get going on a late summer kit, but can't make up my mind. I've got a short-list of three kits with grape skins and need help from the forum deciding which one is best (all are grape skin packs). My choices are: - Selection International Australian Petite...

Last night I racked some peach/mango off the lees and stabilized with k-meta, but noticed that my calculated ABV seemed to be quite high(~13%). On tasting, it was exhibiting a sharp high alcohol flavor (not much fruit flavor), and not what I was expecting. It's an all juice recipe and...

I Started a batch of SP last night after racking my Peach/Mango off the lees to the secondary. Since I'm plum out of 5/6 gal carboys at the moment, I thought I'd try paring down the Skeeter Pee recipe to 1 gallon+. I did the math on most all of the ingredients but had to fudge here and there a...

I'm planning on making some peach/mango wine from puree and juice, but found out that i'm limited on my yeast selections. Before I crack open the puree, i'd like to find out if any of my available yeasts will work or if I need to wait and go to my local homebrew store on Monday? Yeasts I have...

Let's hypothetically say that you make a batch of blackberry wine, and have gone through primary. Once you've removed the fruit, squeezed the berries etc, what do you do with the leftover fruit pulp? Jam, jelly, pie, garbage disposal, flavored vodka??? Just curious.

I have a kit wine where I just added the stabilizers (meta & sorbate) and then a clarifier (chitosan), after the requisite days in secondary fermentation. However as the attached picture shows, there is now some floating sedimentation on top of the wine. I would have expected that to sink to the...

I just gave birth to new storage for about 125 bottles of wine. Organized, tagged and labeled... Oh that feels so good! These will be my aging and storage racks, but I can already tell that I need a lot more space. What a great hobby. (this probably deserves to be in the racks and storage...

Crunch... Glug, glut, glug. It's a sad day for my batch of Skeeter Pee, most of which ended up on the floor tonight. It was a freak accident, but one of my 1 gallon jugs hit my 5 gallon carboy perfectly on the shoulder and popped a 3" hole, draining most of my skeeter pee. Argh! Suffice to say...

Please forgive my 'newbie' question. 'Ive made some kit wine with great results, and want to take the plunge into fruit wine making. I'm curious however, about the canned fruit juices that are sold at the HB stores such as "Vintner's Harvest Elderberry Base". Are they worth the price (around...

I've visited this forum several times in the past for some brief information, but finally decided to register (and glad I did). My Winemaking skills are certainly weaker than many in this forum (only 3 yrs), but i hope to glean some knowledge from those in the know of all things wine-like. My...