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Wine related, my wife tells me the rest of my problems. Okay, I thought this was a fluke till it happened again. I made 3 gallons of strawberry wine, I took the recipe off Jack Keller's site and multiplied everything but the yeast by 3. Fermentation took forever, last time I checked, it...

Hi all, <?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I am picking up some fresh pressed apple cider and am considering either hard cider, apple wine or maybe a little of both. Anyone have any experience making wine from fresh cider? Also, I was thinking I may pick...

Hey everyone! Been a while since my last post. I haven't made much wine lately but I opened a bottle of my grapefruit wine tonight and I thought I'd share my enthusiasm with those who can understand. <?:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"...

Well, I have a couple of gallons of wine that have been in the works for about 3 months now and seem to have stopped dropping lees. I have stabilized and bottled a couple of kit wines but never any of my fruit wines. Anyone care to walk me through the process? I am just going to need to add...

I am starting to look for my next kit wine. I have made a couple of the Vintners Reserve’s and have been happy with the results. I am wondering if anyone has made any of the more expensive “Selection” series and noticed an increase in quality…. I guess what I am asking is: Do you think it’s...

I have a 5 gallon batch of canned Vintners Harvest Cherry wine in secondary right now and after tasting it I am guessing either two cans would have been better or maybe just a 3 gallon batch, the flavor is pretty light. I am wondering what would be good to sweeten it other then sugar? I am...

My1 gallon capacityjust doubled! The future in-laws have been saving wine bottles for me and their Grandfather has been saving his empty gallon jugs for me, I just inherited 6 more gallon jugs and a case of empties! Looks like I need to get busy with some more gallon batches! Edited by: Big Port

Well, finally got my two kits bottled. A WE Meza Luna Red and a WE Riesling. At bottling, the Riesling tasted a little watery, is that normal? I have to admit something, I actually enjoyed bottling all 56 bottles over two days! Call me crazy but it was fun, the corking could be a pain in the...

I made a batch of cherry wine in the end of November and ended up with two 1 gallon jugs. It fermented to dry in a couple weeks and has been racked once, I racked it againlast week and one of the two jugs has started bubbling again. Temp has been consistent and I have done nothing other then...

My fiancée and I were at the grocery store over the weekend and they were having a sale on grapefruit, buy one bag, get one free. She says to me, “can’t we make wine out of those?”. I told here we could and ended up with 24 nice, sweet grapefruit in our shopping cart. We peeled 21 of them...

I started a WE Riesling kit on 12/18, followed the directions exactly. I checked the OG and it was 1.080, after 6 days I checked it again and was 1.030 so I racked it to secondary. After 7 days the SG. was .992 , checked it again the next day to confirm fermentation had completed. I then added...

I think I am going to try my hand at a Cherry Wheat this weekend. I have done a lot of looking into when to add the cherries and I think the secondary is going to be my best bet. I am wondering if it would be beneficial to dump my cherries into a bucket with a little pectic enzyme to break them...

I tried a homemade blackberry wine last night that was excellent! A local friend of mine(Fro1 on this forum who’s yet to post) made a 5 gallon batch from the Vintners Reserve canned fruit and we cracked a bottle open last night. WOW! It was excellent; I’d run out and buy a bottle at the store if...

I was trying to cross reference a Wyeast with a White Labs and found a prety helpful chart for it. Hope other find it helpful. http://kotmf.com/articles/yeastcomp.php#Wyeast_vs_WLP

I read the other post about sanitizing (all 5 pages) to see if I could answer this question but had no luck. Kind of a basic question..... <?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> When sanitizing a with a no rinse sanitizer like “One Step”, do you fill the...

I am wondering what the best way to kick up the ABV in a home brew recipe would be. The recipe below is for a Maple porter and they are saying it should turn out to around 5.4% and I'd like to bump that up to about 6.5%. Any suggestions? Maple Porter (5 Gallons) 6.6 lbs. unhopped light...

Just wanted to formally introduce myself. My name is Eric, I am new to making wine/beer. I have already gotten some great input from the group here and I thank you for that. I live in <?:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><st1:City>Grand...

I am wondering if anyone here can clear something up for me. I read an article on Mead Making that had the F.G. listed for dry, medium, sweet and desert meads. Would the same final gravities hold true for wine? Below is the info I found.<?:namespace prefix = o ns =...

Hi everyone.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I originally wanted to make an orange wine to start with but am unable to find any good oranges at the market just yet so I decided on a cherry wine with frozen tart cherries. Here is the recipe I used. I...

Hi all. I am about to start my first one gallon batch of wine and after reviewing a million different recipes that I want to try I have finally decided on onlyone. I found it in Jack Keller’s web blog and have a couple questions that I am hoping someone here can help with. Below is the recipe...