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Guys, I live in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I dont have massive land to grow massive amounts of fruit to make more than10 gallons of country wine. Sometimes I use frozen concentrate, flower petals, etc. All mostly having to add regular sugar to bring ABV up without reling on the fruits own natural...

Hey guys, for the few years Ive been making my own wines ive only used exclusively Lalvins EC-1118 for everything. It was always strong, never stuck, and my wines were pretty strong. However, I decided to cut down on the alcohol and start using "Red Stars Montrachet" since it would bring it...

Hey guys, just started 10 gallons of crabapple wine this week, but my question is on the several methods to make it. Before I started I noticed that there were some who actually pressed the apples to get the juice similar to making regular cider. And some of the other ones who just mashed...

Hey guys, tried to find everywhere on the internet and could only find one topic on using magnolia flower petals. The guy mentioned having some success but his was the only one. So going off of that I went out picked my mothers magnolia flower petals off her tree and gathered about half a 5...

Just wondering if I should actually use these methods. Why couldnt I simply let the yeast gobble up all the sugar till SP is bout 1.00? Ed

Have made my cheepo country wine and its down to proper FG. My question is, I dont have any bottles on hand and not about to go out and buy any. (money problems) I was planing on using some whisky bottles but only have a few and have 5 gallons worth of wine. Could I use PET1 soda bottles? or...

Ok guys I scoured the internet to see if this was possible since my local "Ollies" store. (re-consignment store) had cans of blueberry pie filling for like 1.75 (U.S.) I went ahead and bought like 5 cans and decided to experiment using used distiled water 1 gallon jugs. I had read from older...

Ok guys, I cant seem to find an answer to this question anywhere on the internet. Maybe my searching skills suck or not trying hard enough. Anyways was wondering if High Fructose corn syrup is fermentable by any yeast? Im thinking yes to myself but would prefer to hear an answer from you...

Guys, For some reason the past post wasnt automatically sent to my email for replies. Even though its showing that Im "subscribed" I had to go into the forum to manually to check, and there was like 3 replies. I checked my email and nothing arrived there. (Gmail) I checked the spam mail and...

Guys, Is there some website that gives rough estimates on the orginal gravities of different forms of fruits? So far, I only know of 3. Oranges and wine grapes seem to be the highest. (from what I what read online) Ed

Ok guys, when I used to make my cheap 1 gallon juice/bakers yeast wine, I never racked it and just drank it a month later. Lees and all down the hatch. Once I got into beer making with kits, I started to understand some basic rules of fermenation and the dreaded autolysis. I do know that...

Hello everyone. I would just like to say that I'm not too new into the scene of making your own stuff. I'm mostly an ale guy but Ive made cheapo get drunk wine in 1 gallon batches before. Ive only used bakers yeast over the years since I was just too lazy to drive to local brew store or too...