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Missed you guys summer has been very busy. The web site looks GREAT!!!! I have been busy but also busy making wine. Made 6 gallons of mulberry/ 6 gal of gooseberry/ 6 gallons of strawberry and 22 gallons of apple. all turned out well apple has been fermenting for almost 2 months???? but have...

Hey Guy and Gals Thinking about trying some cabbage wine. Has anyone attempted this before. I really like flavor of honey and cabbage so was thinking of incorporating honey. Any thoughts or suggestions/ recipes????

Has anyone here used lemon grass before i got a 1/4 that was thinking of adding to a blackberry also with 2 oz. of lemon peel.. any suggestions

Is it nessacary to add camp den tablets in a country wine that you put boiling water into the must. won't the boiling water kill of all the bad stuff????

what is the best way to de stem mulberries just picked 12lbs

Is it possible to over degas? I have been told both. That if you use a drill and a whip you can over mix wine and actually oxygenate it. when others tell me to mix the S#%! out of it. Not sure who to believe but i know i can find the right answer here. And i also know that all my wine that i...

Ok I have a very dry strawberry wine. It has not cleared like i would like it and needs to be sweetened. i will be sweetening with a concentrate. should i wait to add fining agents after i have sweetened or fine now and sweeten later????

Can you wait to long to de-gas wine. what is the max wait time? What is the worst case senario from waiting to long to De-gas????

So i am unclear on topping off procedures. What i have read there are multiple ways to top off carboy. what is the best way to top off with out diluting wine or reducing quality????

so it appears that i have made a 100% dry wine. I just moved to secondary. when the time is right i want to sweeten. any suggestions on the best way to do this. i have also read that banana is a good fruit to give strawberry wine more body. not sure what i will do or even how to do it so any...

i am on my first country wine from my other post. It has been fermenting for 7 days ferment slowed down so i strained and transferred. the thing that is concerning to me is that i checked hydro reading while transferring and it was at .986 this seems very high to me the temp was 72 f . all the...

began by mashing 15lbs of berries 3 kiwis added 1 gallon of water boiled 2.3 gallons water then added to must (light boil) added 12.5 lbs of sugar stirred for 20 mins let cool to 80 deg. added 10 Tbs of fresh squeezed lemon juice checked hydrometer reading added water till reached 1.086...

Hello every one i have just joined an look forward to discussions with all of you. I needed to join a forum or group i am driving every one around me nuts because all i can think about is wine lately. just started so have so much to learn on my 3rd batch now tasted one but still a way to go...