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I have a 3 gal. batch of wine (coffee dessert). ABV ended up at 16.2%. After fermenting, I added a 1.2L fpac to it. My question is how to calculate the ABV with the addition. In my mind, you have approx. 11+L of fermented wine and add approx. 10% (1.2L) to it, therefore diluting the ABV by...

Local grocer had frozen fruit on sale. Bought 12# of peaches. Plan was to use 9# to make 2 gal. batch. This is the amount I use to make blueberry and it turns out great. After fermented, make an fpac with the rest and add back in for flavor, similar to what I do with my strawberry. However, I...

For any of you that have made this kit, any tips or ideas? I contemplated making it as is out of the box, since it appears to be a higher end kit. But, I know @joeswine has made some tweaks to it and he said it is one of his favorites and does well in contests.

Anyone dealt with this company before? They have a RJS Cru Coffee dessert wine for $114 with free shipping. Thinking about grabbing it.

I have noticed this "film", for lack of better word/description, on a few of my kit wines. They taste fine, just wondering what this may be. This particular pic is from my 2013 RJS OVZ. The film was more together when I first poured, but it is swirled since I had swirled the glass of wine...

Anyone made a straight raisin wine? If so, what yeast did you use? I am considering KVI 1116.

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We may have discussed this before, but to be honest, not in the mood to search right now. So last night I had to go into my LHBS and purchase a 3 gal. carboy(one I had acquired a crack/break in it, not sure how). I decided to look at where it was made and it was from China. So I immediately...

Had a great day at Dale's ( @knifemaker ) on Saturday. Thanks again for the invite. We ground pears and apples. He has a very cool setup with his grinder. I ended up with 6 gal. of pear juice and 3 gal. of apple juice. I think Dale ended up with close to 5-6 gal. of pear juice. We would have...

Ok, here is my situation. I think I know the answer but am going to defer to those of you with more experience than I. I obtained 6 gal. of pear juice and 3 gal. of apple juice, courtesy of @knifemaker (Dale) this past weekend. Thanks to Dale for a great day of grinding, pressing and...

Looking to do a coffee port (or other like it), shiraz/viognier, etc. Did a little searching last night for them and came up with they must be pre-ordered. Is this always true or can any of these be had throughout the year? For those of you that have done these kits, how and where did you...

Looking at ordering a cheap Fontana kit to do some "Joe tweaks" to and see what I can come up with. Weather has been averaging between 0 and 20F down here. My question/concern is how is the juice affected if it gets delivered and has to sit outside for up to 8hrs. before I get home to bring...

Just wanted to throw out a kudos to the Carboy Cleaner company. After researching an old thread on WMT and asking a couple of questions, I settled on buying this piece of equipment. I ordered it the week between Christmas and New Years. I didn't receive a confirmation email(like you do from...

So, again, my kit (third kit I have done) is going to be short when racking to secondary (for the second time). I am doing an RJS WS Australian Cab. Started just like always, ie: Bentonite, juice, water to 6 gal. mark, grape skins. This achieved an SG of 1.095 prior to the skin addition, so...

Just ordered the Winery Series Australian Cab from FVW. I assume it comes with EC-1118. Having only made two kits prior, and using the provided EC-1118, should I look at using a different yeast with this kit? Also, any tweaks that may need made to enhance this kit? Thanks.

Does anyone know if any of our sponsors carry this kit? I have looked through most of their websites to no avail. So far, I have only seen it at FVW.............though I may be blind and missing it elsewhere. Checked Labelpeelers, Brew & Wine Supply, etc.

Anyone ever made one from apples? I am afraid you would lose most of the liquid produced. Thinking ahead for my apple wine. I know you can add concentrate. I don't really want to do that if I can avoid it. Would like to stick with straight fruit all the way through.

Looking at making an apple wine. Going to pick up apples tonight as there is a decent sale going on. I was looking through the recipe section and it appears a fair amount of people have made apple wine without a press, which I do not have. I am going to cut them up into pieces, freeze them, then...

So I am not a big kit guy but usually make 1 per year just to keep some non-commercial reds available. With that said, I have only made two kits, RJS Winery Series OVZ and RJS Winery Series Super Tuscan. I was thinking about doing a Pinot Noir, but then see everyone rant and rave about the...

Some of you know that my lastest venture has been coffee. I am now buying green beans, roasting them and using manual methods to make coffee, ie: pour over, turkish, etc. With that said, when I started this( a few months ago) I set out to find a message board, similar to what I did when I...