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I made a 1 gallon batch of blueberry wine several months ago and it turned out great. So I decided to make a 3 gallon batch. I used the same recipe, and the same yeast, Pasteur Red. However, the primary fermentation is going very slow. I am on day 9 of primary fermentation and it is at 1.042sg...

As a newbie, I and finding that wine making is often unequal parts science, art, and opinion. :) In some recipes no k-meta/campden tablets are used, while in others it is used at the beginning and during every racking. In all three of my batches I have started with one campden tablet per gallon...

Ok. So I am making a blueberry wine. Per the recipe when the the must reached 1.040 I removed it from the primary and racked it to the secondary. However, it bubbled substantially over the first few hours in the secondary and came out of the airlock. As a result I was forced to move it back over...

I am brewing my second batch of wine. It is a strawberry wine and I am using Red Star Cotes des Blanc yeast. I read that this is a slow fermenting yeast, but after 42 hours since pitching I don't see a lot of activity. There are some thin suds on the surface, and I do stir it daily, but there is...