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Check out this variety from isons nursery. Cold hardy disease resistsnt variety. https://www.isons.com/shop/muscadines/potted-noble-muscadine/ They also have a ton of other varieties. Each one is marked as being good for wine, jelly or fresh eating as well as their average sugar content

That is kind of what I was hoping to hear. I myself dont drink a lot of my wine. I enjoy making it far more than I like drinking it. The ladies at the hospital like a fairly sweet wine like a dessert wine and they are the ones finding my experiments so I cater to them. At the moment it has been...

Room temp stays between 70 and 74. Used Lavlin EC-1118. It should be ok. The mango-peach wine sitting right beside it is fine. Same yeast. I've never made skeeter pee before either. Maybe that's just how it tastes when its young. Just didn't want to waste a bunch of time on it if it was a...

Its Lon D's skeeter pee with Strawberries, blueberry raspberry and strawberry added. It's not supposed to need much aging at all. Basically fermented berry lemonade. Most of my wines are pretty decent all through the fermenting and aging process. I sample all of them at each racking. This one...

It's more than just a yeasty taste. I've been making wine several years and have never had one taste like this. It's a pretty funky taste. It smells fine. I've never had one have an issue with bad bacteria but I was wondering if maybe that might be my problem. It smells like it should but the...

Ok I just recently made a batch of the Dragons Blood Variation of Lon D Skeeter Pee. It called for Real Lemon lemon juice. It seems to have fermented just fine. I started at 1.100 DG and am at 1.000 now after 3 weeks. I just notice the real lemon has Sodium Metabisulfate. Isn't that used to...

I've had that happen to me so many times I try to never make less than 6 gallons. Always ends up in me being disappointed in a really good wine. Beside the worst wine I've ever made wasnt undrinkable. I've got a friend or two that doesnt care what they taste like so it never goes to waste.

I dont care what people label me as. If they know me well enough for me to care what they think then they know the truth. If they dont know me then I couldnt care less what they think lol.

I cant find a place where dandelions grow around here in sufficient quantity to make a good batch of wine. I normally don't bother going through it all if I cant fill up my 8gal primary. When I do I always end up disappointed when that batch of wine runs out too quickly.

Starting my first 6 gallons of dragons blood today. 3359 + 6 = 3365

It really doesn't take a lot. I live in the middle of town and have a very narrow side yard. It's about 90 foot by maybe 30.

And I'm already buying the required components to plant a small muscadine patch in my side yard. I should get 3 rows, 90 feet long, 15 to 18 vines. Enough for 750+lbs of fruit in a season.

Oh I know. I laughed when I saw the reply. I'm easy going and have a good sense of humor. The second reply was even better. I just made up the whole someone else might see it thing on the spot lol. Sounded like a good defense but it was the farthest thing from my mind when I replied at first lol

It is possible someone else has a similar question and will learn the answer without having to ask questions that have already been asked though. I didn't realize it was so old though until after I'd already posted my reply lol.

Definately top the carboys off. Allowing so much head space allows for more contact between your wine and oxygen which will cause your wine to oxidize.

Wish I had seen this post and that DIY press a week ago. I just finished crushing 12 gallons of muscadines by hand about an hour ago. Took forever and welted my arms up for some reason. Won't stop itching now lol