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Did I get lucky here? I have a three week old 2 gal. blackberry made from 1 gallon of juice from my steamer. It was about 8 pounds of fruit. I added pectic enzyme, pot meta, and enough sugar to have a pre ferment 1.09 and 2 gallons. Primary was done in about 4 days at 1.01, and after 2 weeks it...

Tonight the fruits of my labor was were consumed. 26 years in the USAF. We had my retirement party tonight. I had made a VR chardonnay kit that I transformed to sparkling wine for the festivity. It has been a year plus in the bottle. I've had mixed results. The first blew the top like a blasting...

I was doing research for a class assignment today and stumbled on this article when I did a database search for "Home Winemaking". I'm not easily grossed out, but this.............. Someone tell me that the Duluth News Tribune is a prank paper. Or this is a Urban legend. <TABLE...

Tonight I was going through my little purple recipe book and noticed a few recipes called for Light Dried Malt extract. I'm familiar with DME in beer kits, but am curious what it brings to a wine. Does anyone have any experience with DME ? What quantities would you use in recipes? Thanks.

Can anyone tell me anything about Marionberry from Vint/H? I was in my suppliers place yesterday. I told him I had about 3 pounds of frozen blackberries, and was looking for some canned fruit to make a batch. He suggest a 3gal batch of the Mationberry with my frozen fruit. I had read a...

I am going to start a Brewers Best "Irish Stout" Kit soon. This will be my second kit made. The first was a Amber Ale that put through secondary Ferm. It turned out to be incredible. I am wondering if secondary would be recomended for a dark Stout. It seems that there is no need to clear this...

Don't forget to make sure both ends are on the hydrometer case are on when you pick it up. OOOOPPS. I wonder if a little glue or duct tape will affect my readings?? Maybe I can parlay this into a refractometer????

My boys actually liked this. Place 1 cut up fryer(3-4lbs.) or roasting bird in a Dutch oven. Cover with 8 cups of water. Add 6 cubes of broth and turn the heat on. While the bird is coming to a boil, finely chop 1 cup each of carrots and celery, and 1 medium onion. After the bird comes to...

Before I was enlightened to the joys of wine drinking I was a young man stationed in Tokyo. I tried sake maybe once or twice, and really only did it as a shooter. I don't even remember the flavor.Does anyone reccommend a SAKE kit? Maybe I should buy some at the local store and give it a...

Tommorow is the big day, I just got done fixing a sweet pototo casserole, mac and cheese, cranberry compote and two birds in a cooler full of brine soaking for the night.My wife bought too many fresh cranberries and nowI have a few left over bags. I'm going to have to sit and think of what I can...

I am looking at the kits offered by FVW and am wondering what the difference is in the two kits that come up. One is a $6 #5400 kit and the other is #64856 $21. What is the difference here? I read the pict-tutorial by rhosted and was a bit confused at what was going on there. Can anyone help...

Last week I was looking for Oregon fruits in my store. I found pitted cherries in water, and found cans each of blackberry, bluberry, and raspberry. All of the berries were packed in heavy syrup. I suppose these products were meant for pie and pastry making. Can anyone think of a reason, I might...

Tonight was bottling night for my champagne project. I started with a W/E Chard kit in Sept. I did primary, and secondary as per directions, then instead of stailizing and clearing I gave the carboy a gentle stir every four days for a month. I then degassed and added isinglass. I let it clear...

This is the first one I did from scratch. I searched yahoo for blackberries and found this nice pic of blooming berries. That was after wading through hundreds of pictures of the Blackberry email gadgets. I also did a 2X4 label for the back of the bottle. I started with everythin on the...

Tonight I was bottling my 1 1/2 gal of blackberry. I was using my small bucket to bottle from with the aid of my auto siphon and bottling wand. All was good till the seventh and most likely last full bottle. I had the bucket on a slight tilt and looked up as the bottle was nearing full to see...

I racked to the jug this morning with 1.014&lt;&lt;1.03 last night. I had stallded it out on thursday. I started it in the garage but the tems dropped and stayed down enough to brief stall. I brought (snuck) it into the house and it sped up a bit. My wife makes me do the heavy fermenting...

Today I broke off about three of my hard earned dollars to support my local wine shop. I bought the plastic italian bottling spigot. Now all I have to do is drill a 1 inch hole in one of my buckets and install away. I neglected to ask the guy behind the counter the best method of using...

I am starting a crabapple with 5 lb fresh fruit. The applesare yellow and mostare plum sized and very hard. They have a very nice flowery smell to them. My garage has never smelled so good. I have no press and intended cover the end of a 2X4 with plastic and pulverize. Last night I cut them in...

I am currently enjoying the last few bottles of myWildberry Shiraz. I like the flavor but it has a flat taste.I'm thinking ofsparkling my next kit to get that carbonated crispness. I'm happy with the alcohol content. Would I need to bring that(SG) up to bottle and sparkle? does anyone else have...

Can anyone see any problems with a 1.5 gal batch of blackberry that started @ 1.11 and after 24 hours with yeast was 1.06 and after 48 hours(tonight) is 1.024? My primary fermenter is a 2 gallon pitcher covered with a towel. The temp is pretty much ambient with the house (75-78). At this rate it...