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Piquant Apple... That's what I'm calling it... My fourth (or is it now my fifth?) batch of apple wine from apple cider came out with a strong unpleasant tartness that wasn't in my previous batches - discovered after bottling with a taste test of some overage.What went wrong? Well, as I thought...

I want to buy some kits and stuff... Haven't gotten any email sale notification from the likes of Label Peelers and others for a least several weeks. What's up with that?

I really, really must be getting old... I can't find the "Post a Photo any Photo" thread. Do I have the right title?

So just less than 2 years since moving from CT to PA I've become a local celebrity. Full page spread was published in the local news paper, Wellsboro Gazette, on my wine making hobby. This was not promoted by me but resulted from a loosing entry I had in a a wine tasting contest several towns...

Here goes nothing... . .

Like I've noticed with almost all the wines I've done... ~48 hours after pitching my yeast there is a lot fermentation activity. Looking at the surface of the wine in the bucket it looks as if the must is about to reach a rolling boil - you can even hear the bubbles breaking surface from a short...

Would you file a State Income tax return even though you weren't required to file? Turns out that this year (my first full tax year in PA) my interest and dividends didn't add up to the amount that would require me to file (PA doesn't tax my retirement income). I'm leaning on filing anyway -...

I'm confused with this new listing of corks with metric measurements... I just want the standard #9 cork and tell me its length in inches. [I know, I know. I'll get used to it just like I've done with the metric sized bottles.]

Well it looks like the third times a charm... Wife and I each had a half glass of our third batch of Peach Wine. I had considered the first to batches good but by comparison to this third batch, with hind sight, they were just okay. This third batch was made with about 10 pounds more peaches...

What is the longest period of time you've waited between cleaning/washing your bottles and then sanitizing and bottling - without any ill effect? Would spritzing washed bottles with k-meta and then covering with Saran Wrap allow them to be used sometime latter for bottling without having to...

What's up with this...? I've now got 3 peach and 3 apple wine from raw cider fermentations under my belt. All three apple wines have cleared quickly and easily with the addition of one tsp pectic enzyme and the use of one application of SuperKleer. I can literally within just a few hours see...

Would one of you younger folk get on this... I'm thinking that an Exoskeleton Plastic Carboy would be better than both today's heavy and dangerous glass carboys and the plastic ones that don't allow you to put a vacuum on them. Having an exoskeleton would allow for easy cleaning. Wouldn't it be...

I believe I already know the answer but am looking for reassurance... Will using two packets of yeast cause problems for my wine fermentation? I started, after a 24 hour wait, my apple wine from cider by pitching a packet of Renaissance white wine yeast. This yeast was pitched last Tuesday...

I've graduated - first time juice bucket from a winery... Was up to Seneca Lake, NY to meet with friends and visit a few wineries. Brought my fermentation bucket with me and on the way home stopped @ Fulkerson Winery and bought myself 6 gallons of Niagara juice. Paid only $5.00/gal and $0.75 for...

Had a little neighborhood friends get together this afternoon. Those who tried my 10L WE Pinot Noir were very complementary on its taste. Man, it sure is nice to have a low end and very young kit wine so well received. Kit was back sweetened with 2 cups of sugar but was otherwise made...

I've got a Lalvin yeast packet of Bourgovin RC 212 that will expire next year and would like to use it before its expiration date. Would it be okay for making a batch of peach wine that I'm ready to start or should I stick with EC-1118 like I used in my previous peach wines? I'm not looking for...

Finally getting some decent rain here in Wellsboro, PA. Except for a bit about two days ago we've been running a major deficit.

Yep, that's what I am. LOSER! 3rd bottle from the right. Not even an honorable mention like... "Oldest Entrant", "Tried the Hardest" or "Whatever". Joking aside I'm actually a winner. Got to meet a young couple that entered two bottles of wine, the first two bottles you see on the left, and...

Is there a simple way to measure residual sugar? Maybe with just a hydrometer? Wouldn't the measurement be of the sugar left after fermentation PLUS any sugar from back sweetening? [The Wine Entry Form for the up coming Canton Wine and Cheese Festival requires the % Residual Sugar be listed...

So, I show my wife one of the bottles of peach wine I just labeled and she gets upset. Not with the label per say but because of what I've named the wine. I labnled the wine "Walmart Peach" because that is where I had bought the peaches to make the wine. There was/is no attempted to belittle...