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So, I've been away from winemaking and the forum for a few years (because, life) but I'd like to get back into it by starting with a 1 gallon kit of cabernet sauvignon. I've been looking at kits and find 1 gal kits from Fontana, and WineXpert. I was hoping to get a Master Vintners kit but I can...

I'll be bottling some SP in beer bottles with press caps and wonder what the proper fill level is? For corked bottles I strive for 1/4" below the cork. Beer is usually bottled with 1 or 2 inches of headspace. I'm thinking I should fill to within 1/4" below the cap but I wonder what others do?

I know that removing Corona ink labels has been addressed in previous posts but this is the simplest method I've found after having read the other posts so I thought I'd share the process. This works for 12 oz and 7 oz Corona Extra bottles. That's the only thing I've tried it on. I use a...

I'm new at wine making and have 3 batches (5 gal SP, 2 gal peach, 2 gal Apfelwein) in progress, but none finished, so I have a newbie question. I'm making my first batch of SP and using Lon's original 5-gal recipe, except that I made a yeast starter with EC-1118 instead of slurry. It's...

My first batch of wine. Peach wine from fruit and beginning SG was 1.100. Full details about the batch in this thread: http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50605 I transferred to secondary with air locks yesterday when SG was at 0.992. I think I should have caught it above...

My first wine & I'm making it with fresh peaches. I don't want to mess this up so I'm posting to invite constructive criticism. Also, I have a couple of questions at the end. Not sure if this is too much detail. I read a lot of recipes online for making fruit wine. Most were very similar so I...

Just chiming in to say hello and started my first batch of peach wine a couple of days ago. This is my first attempt at fruit wine so I'm anxious to see how it turns out. Last year I made two gallons of mead. It turned out excellent, except that it was a little sweeter than I would've liked...