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Bought a Super Tuscan ultra premium kit with "Harvest Crush@ grape pack on Saturday. Starting SG was 1.092 Saturday night. Woke up Sunday morning, stirred and retested SG to see how fermentation was going. Was very surprised to see it WENT UP to 1.102. So I added 2 liters of 70 degree water...

Been eyeballing kits due to the present unavailability of fresh juice. Picked up WE on sale for $67 CAD. I'm getting it started now. :)

I purchased two Italian Merlot juice buckets at the beginning of the month. It is now been almost 28 days and fermentation seems to of stopped at 1.038. I've added yeast nutrient, tannins, and nothing seems to work. I may have to hit it with some EC – 1118 and see if I can get things...

I wanted to see how many times you can put a cork in a screwcaps bottle before it breaks. The answer is 5.

Been making grape and juice wine for quite a while and I have decided to try a kit. A friend of mine likes "Apothic Red". I tried it and its an OK wine. Seems to me like a non-wine drinkers wine that claims to be made from "several varietals including Cabernet, Zinfandel and Merlot" but I swear...

Is there anyone in Ontario who knows where I can get some more ML Bacteria. I tried Watsons....no answer Tried online....most want more to ship than the cost of the bacteria itself Tried locally...nothing.

How can I be out? I've purchased almost 300 bottles this year? And that's for 2013!!!! Maybe I should .... Start sinking heavily? Make less wine? Or suck it up and buy more bottles?

I'm thinking of using this recipe for a bucket of Cab-Suav I picked up today. 20 L Cab Sauv adjusted to 1.083 4 oz Black Currant Concentrate 4 oz Molasses Small handful dried elderberry 1 tsp Coarse Coffee Grounds in tied satchel 6 L Welxhes adjusted to 1.083 to correct volume of 26 L carboy...

I had added mint leaves to my original batch of Skeeter P which is still fermenting. When the fermentation did not take off after 10 days I removed the mint and noticed it had oxidized considerably. Now, the Skeeter P is moving along nicely it's specific gravity is 1.020 and I would like to add...

Lemon juice has a PH of two. I stumbled on a yeast that is good for low PH must. It's called 18-2007 Any info?

I need recommendations on purchasing a new vacuum system. I need around 20" Hg or more my Orion's are a Gast rotary vane medical pump Buhler Motor with Rietschle Thomas Pump Must ship to Canada. Any ideas welcome. I will have to rig a one way valve air ball valve to keep the pressure where I...

I have 1L black currant concentrate that I usually use in my wines. I've been using it for a while now and it imparts a hint of black currant when 250ml is added to 27L juice. I would like to make black current elderberry wine. The problem is (as you can see from the picture) it contains k-meta...

It is day 10 of my first mead attempt and I have racked the mead off its orange peels/pulp, white raisins and nutmeg/cinnamon tea satchel from the primary to the 3 1/2 gal secondary. It fits perfectly with a small 3 inch headspace. With my reds I usually add an egg white (whisked with water and...

Anybody know the cheapest place to get corks and heat shrinks shipped to Canada? Tired of paying $5 for 25 corks.

I'm brewing my first batch of Mead...ever. My recipe was this. 2.5 kilograms Amber Honey 2.5 kilograms white honey Reduce with boiling water Adjust starting SG to 1080 Handful White Rasins 2 small Clementines crushed & Sliced 25 grams yeast nutrient Lalvin D-47 The yeast was refrigerator kept...

Just bought a mini jet. It's awesome and made in Canada. Any other mini jet ushered out there?