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I have a blueberry wine that I made earlier this summer. It is done fermenting and is settling out and clearing up at the time. I have had a commercially produced wine that seemed to have a slight cinnamon taste to it. Can you add cinnamon and or other non fruit flavors to wine or will that...

I took a sg reading on my skeeter pee and it had dropped from the 1070 start point to about 1060-1062 or so. Can you develop a sulfur dioxide problem even at this point. Directions say to add yeast nutrient and energizer at 1050 to avoid the sulfur dioxide however mine has already taken on a...

I am in the process of making my very first batch of skeeter pee using slurry from my blueberry wine. I added the slurry and all after I had added the tannin, nutrient, energizer and let set for a couple days. Sg was right on the money at 1070. I added the slurry and it has been 2 days and all...

I have achieved my sg point of 1080 and I currently have my blueberry wine in my primary fermentation vessel. I'm looking for an end result of about 11.5% alc. At what point of fermentation do I add the remaining sugar to achieve the desired alcohol content? After its been in primary a few day...

I have a starting s.g. of 1020 for the must and need to add the sugar to get it up to 1080. When making the calculation as to how much sugar is already in the must do I multiply 44 g/l by 10 even if I'm not making 10 liters of wine as per the beginners book on these calulations? Or do I use...

I am about to start on a batch of blueberry wine and figured I'd give skeeter per a try with the blueberry slurry...this is my first go at both blueberry and skeeter pee. Is the yeast energizer in skeeter pee recipe an absolute must have? I have everything else yeast nutrients, tannin, etc.

Hey folks, I have recently acquired a nice glass 5 gallon carboy from a relative's estate sale that they just gave to me. The only issue is that it has clearing been sitting in a basement for quite some time and appears to have a small bit of rust on the inside of the carboy from who knows what...

I am looking to make a pineapple wine and have already selected a recipe but I would like to use an additional fruit to blend with it but don't know what to use. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might work well with pineapple?

Hey everybody! I am new to this forum and very new to wine making. I made my first batch of wine several years ago more as an experiment than anything else but am wanting to give it another go. I'm not much of a wine drinker per se but do enjoy sharing it with others and I enjoy the process of...