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I can second the impact Guava can have on a fruit wine. I make a version of passion fruit wine with Guava and 1 banana per gallon for mouthfeel. It's a real favorite down here in Brazil where I can grow all this fruit within walking distance of my back porch. I began making 12-gallon batches...

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I occasionally make mango wine from the fruit picked off trees growing by my house. Your must looks perfect and you will have a great wine at the end. Some observations which will make your life a bit better. You need to use Bentonite/Pectin enzyme/chemical fining/filtration or all together...

I had good luck using Niagra with fresh peaches in the past. They went really well together and the juice was easier to find. I made this wine 3-4 times when I had easy access to a peach tree on my property and would highly recommend it. Once I forgot to add K-Sorbate after sweetening a...

Planning what to do with 30 liters of Ranpur juice. I need to significantly reduce acidity, add sugar and hope my starter will take!

I was winemaking while consuming product... never a good idea. I ended up adding too much K-meta as well, about 8X!. I mixed the primary well until the sulfur smell was significantly reduced (or my nose was burnt, not sure which really). I have a Rangpur wine in primary with high acid and...

I have aging in bottles: Jabuticaba wine. Needs another year until the tannins reduce I have in Secondary: Passionfruit wine Guava Wine In Primary: Limão Cravo (Rangpur fruit) I live in Brazil and am focused on making wine using locally sourced fruit. -Marc

haha, sorry about that! The spiders in these trees are not so big and try the get away so it's not that bad. My main worry is accidentally eating a stowaway spider on the fruit! The jabuticaba wine is bottled now (only 3 test ones) but I'm certainly on my way! Looking for Cab sav, Merlot...

It will take a while for the rhubarb to break down to release the juice but it will eventually. I usually add sugar to dry Rhubarb using the sugar to draw out the juice. The oxalic acid, the major acid found in Rhubarb might be too high if untreated. Test and if in a normal range, leave it...

You could just put a red hat on Mario and a green one on Luigi! Great looking barrels! -Marc

Yes, perfect timing too! We just had a hive of the africanized honey bees (AKA killer bees) make their home in our roof! What is common here is to call a company who will come to your site, find the queen, clip her and put her in a traditional honey bee box. Once all the bees are in the...

Jabuticaba tastes very much like a newly matured scupernogg. Thick rigid skin, a moderate amount of juice and a couple seeds. Not very sweet but just enough to make the tannic flavor enjoyable. Tannic enough so no cold soaking...which I found out to my dismay during my first trials. Tasted...

I can get some wine supplies from a local winery called Casa Geraldo in Minas Gerais, an hour drive north for me. I brought most of what I need when I came here but ran out of yeast last year. I tried to freeze some slurry but it simply failed! I didn't use Glycerol and the cycling freezer...

It looks similar to one I made last year. I racked in tossing the upper part and was fine. Maybe I was a bit too worried over nothing. Let us know how it works. -Marc

The orange wine seems like a pretty basic one. What was the body of this wine just using oranges and sugar? I might have put in a few bananas. It's one to try! -Marc

Welcome...though I'm new here myself! I've made rhubarb wine many times and even entered a winemaking competition in 2008. It's great! A couple tips I found to be useful: Use sugar to draw out the juice. Add the sugar directly to the washed and chopped rhubarb for a few days. It will drain...

Thank you everyone! It's good to be here speaking English! The first image is of a Jabuticaba tree with some fruit. It grows right through the bark looking like large dark grapes. Taste is nothing like grapes thought! Second image is a bowl of picked Jabuticaba! Third image is of the...

Hello everyone, long time homewine maker who moved to São Paulo state Brazil from Massachusetts 2 years ago. I stopped actively making wine as I was essentially building a company. Now, I'm back to winemaking and taking advantage of all the new fruit around me. I've made wine from mangoes...