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I'm trying to figure out why my kit wines are suboptimal! I've been making fruit wines and kit wines for a long time now but they seem to have this off flavor (kit wine taste). I get a good kit from time to time which keeps me going but I don't like wasting money. I've made the tweaks mentioned...

has anyone tried adding Label peelers amoretti fruit concentrates to kit wines? I was thinking of making a light white wine kit and splitting it to 2- 3 gal carboys and adding a couple of these amoretti fruit packs like guava or cherry. Would you recommend the split first and fruit into primary...

I know I read this somewhere but cant find it now, the new instructions have me leaving the kit in the primary for 14 days but do I have to? Life got away from me and I've got 5 kits to make and want my primary for the next kit. The old instructions had me racking at 7 days, what happens if I...

Ok folks my husband has had enough, hes kicking me out of the office where I make my wine, he wants relocate me to my unfinished basement we live in the northeast, i can run a dehumidifier to reduce any chance of mold, and the temps drop to about 60 at night and maybe 65 days, will this be ok?

The new WE instructions have me leaving the must in the primary for 14 days before racking into secondary, anyone else rack on day 7 instead as long as sg is 1.03 or less? Seems like a long time exposed to the air with only a lid covering it.

Hi making a sauv blanc and wanted to add dried apricots to primary but the label says there's potassium sorbate added as a preservative, will this prevent fermentation or is it so minuscule that it will not effect my fermentation?

I started making wine because I wanted to make fruit wines, I enjoyed making them more than drinking them, now I make kit wines but I want try to tweak them. Has anyone ever tried adding peaches to your primary, I have a wine expert vintners reserve sauvignon blanc I'd like to try, I know some...

Thank you for the suggestions found on this site, I've made kits for a few years now but I'm not always happy with how they turn out so I started to tweak kits to my taste, I love the island mist kits for summer poolside sipping but they seem a bit too sweet and fake to me, so last year I made a...

Hi, quick question, I added half of my mango mai tai f pack to the primary and I'm going to add the rest at the normal time. In the meantime what do I do with the rest of the f pack, I opened it do I need to refrigerate it since it's got so much sugar? I would hate to have it grow mold and be...

I have been making wine for 7 or so years, I started by making fruit wines but then converted to kits. I make about 6 kits a year, mostly wine expert and island mist adding sugar to bring my sg to 1.09, I recently had an epic battle with the raspberry peach sangria, I couldn't taste any peach...

I have been making wine for 7 or so years, I started by making fruit wines but then converted to kits. I make about 6 kits a year, mostly wine expert and island mist adding sugar to bring my sg to 1.09, I recently had an epic battle with the raspberry peach sangria, I couldn't taste any peach...