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I purchased 10 - Lavlin yeast packages several months ago. I forgot about them and left in the envelope in my room. It says to refrigerate . Has 2017 expiration date. I'm in desperate need to use one and don't have anymore.

A friend gave me a pint of elderberry jelly (looks more like syrup). I will not eat it so I was wondering if I could use it in my muscadine wine ? I'm sure they used pectin to make it. So I was wondering if it would be ok.

I'm wondering if it would be a good investment to buy a wine press or crusher?

I'm ready to bottle my muscadine wine. Should I use campden tablets or potassium sorbate ? How much of it do I use and can I bottle directly after adding it to the 5 gallons of wine ? Thank yall

Didn't use a fruit bag when I started my muscadine wine. Mashed muscadines added all required ingredients, waited 24 hours then added yeast, let sit 7 days and then squeezed all juice from the hulls, put in a secondary and added the airlock. Airlock is bubbling away but I have a lot of the...

Started fermentation 15 days ago with an S.G. of 1.1. 2/2 1.03 2/4 1.004 2/5 1.002 2/8 1.00 2/10 .996 I think I'm suppose to get the same s.g for three days before I do anything else . Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

Making DangerDave's Dragon Blood. Unfortunately i went ahead and jumped the gun and put my yeast now instead of waiting 12-24 hours !!! I know, I know. What should I do now ? Sent from my iPhone using Wine Making

Thought I got all my ingredients and guess what ?! I forgot sugar . Of all things. Can I put everything I to the bucket tonight and wait on sugar for tomorrow ?

Started my fermentation 7 days ago and it had a sg of 1.1. Now it's 1.016. Is it time to put into secondary ? And it's dry and I like it sweet so do I add sugar now ?

I defrosted muscadines, mashed them up and used a ph strip. The color matches 5-6. Now what does that mean ? Julie said that ph should be .80.

I want to start a new batch of muscadine wine but want to get a stronger flavor of muscadine. Should I make a juice out of the muscadines or just use the whole fruit ?

Started my must at 1.1 sg, Before I took The hulls and seeds off my sg was 1.07 , now my sg is 1.01. Chart says alcohol level is 11.8. Took hulls and seeds off Saturday the 23 so it's been 3 days. Should I wait and try to get more alcohol or rack again ?

How do you know when fermentation is complete ?

I started my muscadine wine two weeks ago Sunday. I used one and half gallons of mashed muscadines, 9 lbs of sugar, three gallons of water, one packet of regular yeast. Yeast started bubbling and frothing. Wanted to add more juice so I put in pint of juice and cup of sugar and one more yeast...