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About 25-30 years ago - I bought a grape vine. I cannot remember if it was a Pink Canadice or a Pink Reliance. I also can't remember where I bought it. May have been Gurney's, might have been Jung's, could have been Stark's.. I remember it was one of the more cold-hardy grapes, which was one...

Here's my recipe for a Cucumber Wine with a hint of lime basil. I use burpless cukes, because that's what I grow - same with the lime basil. Adjust ingredients as you feel necessary - that's how I made mine. I am also attaching the original recipe I used as a model before tweaking it to my...

Has anyone made a Goji Berry wine from fresh/frozen berries? I have almost 12# of Goji berries I picked fresh and froze, so I think I have enough for a 3 gal batch. The only thing I am missing is a recipe - does anyone have one? I was considering adding a few ounces of red currants and some...

My thanks to all that take their time to contribute your knowledge and experience here. To make a short story long - I had a 5 gal batch of black raspberry that smelled "off" - sulfur, rotten egg like when I racked it the 2nd time. Not good. Taste seemed OK, but - that smell was horrible...

I recently had an issue getting a batch of rhubarb wine started. It took well over a week. The temp of the must was in the upper 60's F at the start, sg was 1.092 and the ph was 3.2 . Over the course of a week - I had to warm the must up to about 80 F and pitched yeast 3 times before I saw...

I am about to start a batch of DB and I had the idea to turn 1/2 of it to a liquer. My idea was to make 2 batches - my wife likes it "as is", but I wanted more of a sipping liquer. Here's my wild-hair plan for MY batch - let me know your thoughts, pitfalls, alternatives, etc...... I use...

I think all the water last fall and this spring may have nearly drowned my grape vine. Excuse my lack of proper grape vine terminology - I am but a humble mostly vegetable gardener with 1 very hardy grape vine that is about 30 years old. None of the lateral vines have swelling in any of the...

An Irishman walks into a bar and orders 3 pints of Guinness. He then proceeds to take a sip from the first, then a sip from the second, then a sip from the third, and starts again with a sip from the first, then second and on. The bartender asks what he was up to, and he replied "I have 2...

The end of 2017 and most of 2018 was a real s**t-storm for me. My wife had valve replacement & repair surgery and then my elderly parents had multiple issues - that's the ultra-condensed version. Not much time for wine making. Didn't even get out fishing once. Fortunately, I had started a few...

Since % ABV stands for the Percentage of Alcohol by Volume - it only stands to reason that adding syrup or juice concentrate after fermenting will change that ratio. If you add more liquid (thereby increasing the volume) but you don't add any additional alcohol - you have decreased the % of...

I grew up in a small town in IL south of Chicago. When I was 10, maybe younger - I tried to make my first batch of wine. I bought a jug of apple cider, swiped a packet of yeast from the baking cabinet, poured it into the jug, twisted the top on good and tight and set it in the field behind my...

I have a single grape vine I planted about 25 years ago. It is a seedless Red Canadice as I recall. Not a wine grape, I know - but I got over 5 gal. of juice from it's grapes in 2017 and the wine I made from it is pretty nice. I have been removing dead wood and cutting it back all along, but...

Stevia is one of the plants that I grow and I have a very productive plant that I need to harvest the leaves from. Typically, I dry it, then powder it in a coffee grinder. It keeps for a long, long time when powdered. It can also be made into a liquid sweetener - I have not tried that yet...

I did a quick inventory of what's left in my "fruit freezer" the other day. I have several bags that are not adequate quantities for a "pure" or single fruit wine, so I was hoping for some suggestions on which fruits would make the best flavor combinations. I like to make at least a 2 or 2.5...

I noticed that the Dragon's Blood recipe and the kit wine I just finished called for stabilizing & added clarifying agent after the first rack. Most of the fruit recipes I've tried call for racking numerous times and waiting for the wine to clear on it's own before stabilizing and then...

This is the first year I made dandelion wine and I made a dandelion-lemongrass variant at the same time. It bulk aged a little over 6 months and has been in the bottle another 3 months. There is a bit more of the Q & A on petal removal, a detailed after-action report as well as the recipe ~...

I was going to use 10# of Black Raspberries and 10# of red raspberries and make a 3 gallon batch of each this weekend. I was considering making a second "black & red" wine by combining the black and red raspberries, but I can't find a lot of info on making "second" wine. Any help or...