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Hah I had this exact thought a couple of months ago when I saw a Mennonite man selling maple syrup at my local strawberry festival. His prices were WAAAAY too expensive or I would have tried.

Also, taste it. If it's super sweet then fermentation never took place. You should be able to clearly taste alcohol if it has indeed fermented.

I would double check the sg. Are you sure it's 1.090 and not 1.009?

Be careful with pineapple wine. The last 3 batches I did EXPLODED into a yeast monster! I would recommend placing your bucket into a laundry sink if you have it available just in case. My first pineapple wine rose the lid off of my bucket about a foot above the rim with a super dense foam!

Agglomerate. I think #7. They came with a kit wine that I bottled into 1.5L screw top bottles so I had them left over.

I left these bottle standing upright for an entire week. Reviewing my steps I did nothing wrong. I'm going to throw away the remaining corks from this package...

I have read about soaking corks but am always too afraid of introducing bacteria... So I have never soaked. The corks are older. Could dry corks cause this? That kind of makes sense to me as it would act as a wick of sorts...?

This is weird. Almost all of my bottles of black tea wine are crying a very sweet liquid from the cork! What could be causing this?

Update on my black tea wine I racked it again today and checked the SG. 0.99. All activity seems to have stopped and I'm ok with this level so I k-Meta to kill any chance of re-fermentation. I'm giving it a day or two before I sorbate and sparkolloid it. I've never made wine with welches...

I've been making wine for a couple of years now and think I have a fairly good grasp of it. I would love to meet up with other amateur wine makers in the area and sample what others have made! Is there any interest in a meet up? (I love about an hour north west of Toronto)

I would imagine you dose it with chitosan/kisosol. That will take all of the suspended particles out fairly efficiently (assuming you don't have active fermentation still going)

I want to try a mead so badly but honey is very expensive... Even at farmers markets it would still be about $80 to make a 6 gallon batch.

Coffee... Wine....???!?!?!?!?!!!! I know what my next batch is going to be!!

Stir sediment back into the wine...? I've never heard of this...

Iced tea wine Boil a large pot of water and steep 30 bags of tetley tea. Leave in water until cool. Combine in pail with: 6 cans of welches white grape juice concentrate 2 bottles of Real Lemon juice Sugar to desired SG Let sit overnight (my thought process is that leaving it will burn off...

Make sure to lookup "skeeterpee". It's a very inexpensive lemon wine. If you buy your materials in bulk you can get the cost per 750ml bottle down to as low as 14c each! Also, the sugar and lemon juice can be purchased at Costco for super cheap!

I have done this for about 5 months now. A couple of things to note: 1. Most Sodastream models WILL NOT WORK. rule of thumb: if the bottle screws in it should work, if it "clicks in" it won't. The click in models have a safety feature to prevent the unit from blowing up if over pressurized...

Whichever size you would like. Smaller are normally sweeter though so I pick medium (soccer ball size) ones. One thing to note is that the watermelon juice will keep in the refrigerator for about a day before the flavour starts to go iffy... So drink it up :) I can't wait for the summer so I...

(I was kidding about the healthy part)

Nope. Freaking delicious