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    Dragons Blood (or Skeeter Pee) with lower ABV?

    I was wondering if anyone has ever tried making the Dragon's Blood (or Skeeter Pee) recipe with a lower ABV? I thought I remember seeing a calculator that would tell you the estimated OG based on the fruit/sugar elements added in your recipe - but can't seem to find it now. I am thinking...
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    When Can You......?

    On my drive home from work today I was thinking. I know a trick to get more body in your wine is to add raisins. But when can you add them? Does it have to be during the primary fermentation stage? Can you add them into Secondary or even during bulk storage/aging and still get the effect...
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    (Re-) Introduction from PA

    Hello there all from NW PA I started wine-making in Late 2013 with a couple of kits. They turned out pretty well so I progressed to a couple 1 gallon recipes to learn more of this art/skill. Then life happened - family changes, job changes, life changes.... I am now ready to go back to...
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    Help/Suggestions to finish up a batch

    Several years ago I started to try my hand at wine making with a couple kits. I then progressed to trying a 1 Gallon Batch recipe - I got it as far as the bulk aging stage then things happened -- family changes, job changes, life events and I never finished up. I now want to finish up and see...
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    WineXpert Shelf Life/Replacement of Additives

    I recently acquired 2 WinExpert Selection Speciale kits that were packaged in late 2010 (by the kit code). I am going to take a chance and ferment these and hope the juice is still good. I plan to get new yeast (both kits use 2 pkts of Red Star Premier Cuvee) just to be sure it is good...
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    Help What is this growth, should I be concerned?

    I am a newbie - made a couple kits and now am striking out to try and learn more. Hopefully one of the experts on here will recognize what I am seeing and be able to tell me it's ok, help me fix it, or explain what is wrong so I can learn and start over. I am trying a 1 Gal batch of...
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    WineXpert Choco-Raspberry Port --- questions

    Today I performed step 3 on my Chocolate-Raspberry Port kit. (Stabilising and Clearing). I have a couple questions for those of you who have made this kit or kits similar. Background: I followed the instructions so far for this kit except I split the chaptalisation into 2 additions when the...
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    WineXpert Secondary and SG target

    I seem to have several questions recently -- I appreciate the answers and all the help.... I racked my (first ever) kit into a 6-gal carboy the other day for secondary fermentation. An Island Mist Raspberry Peach Sangria. My starting SG was 1.045 and it spent 6 days in the primary. SG...
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    WineXpert Chaptalisation and ABV calculation

    I tried searching for this as I thought it must have been asked before, but could not find any posts that answered me.... I started my second kit tonight -- a WE Choco-Raspberry Port. This kit has a chaptalisation packet --- so I am wondering how I need to calculate the ABV of my finished...
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    White Specs on Primary

    Hey all -- I am a total newbie here so please bear with me... Last week I took the plunge and started my first wine - a WinExpert Kit. I am watching it in my primary and trying to take notes of what I see -- today when I looked in the primary, I noticed that there are a few small white specs...
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