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Best thing to do with apple wine is find someone with a brandy still and make brandy!

Two Venus seedless vines, which produced 8 gallons of deep red this year. I planted these 4 years ago for fresh eating. No way can we eat that many grapes while they are in season. So I have made wine with them for two years in a row now. I made it very strong and very dry. I don't like sweet...

After contacting both Midwest Supply and Hanna Instruments. I have the ph checker working as expected. Midwest agreed to let me send it back to them for a replacement. In the meantime Hana Technical services sent me a new electrode which fixed the problem. I can now give a hearty recommendation...

I bought the Hanna checker. I never was able to even calibrate it. I have sent email to midwest supply, where I bought it, inquiring as to what my recourse should be. I wish I had read this b4 I bought it, I would have opted for the phep 5 instead.

Well, I bought the Hanna checker ph meter. I went through the cal procedure which was frustrating because the reading kept changing for seemingly no reason. Very unstable. Finally got it to where I thought it was close. Then I tried measuring a sample of grape juice. Again the reading was very...

I have a 5 gallon batch finished fermenting. I used 26 lbs of apache blackberries and 2 gallons of boiling water, 12 lbe sugar. It tastes good and dry. Not too acidic to my taste. Fermented on the pulp for three days and then transferred to a 5 gallon carboy after pressing in a regular wine...

Thank you for the idea, that makes more sense than diluting vinegar.

Is there a good way to test the accuracy of the acid test kit. I am doubting my results. I tested some fresh white grape juice and it took 1.5 ccs of the reagent to get to the color change. It is the cheap baker and crosby kit sold by Midwest supply. The instructions say for each cc to the end...