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I buy K-Meta from the local juice supplier; they sell all materials and equipment to make homemade wine. The label on the container says "use 1/4 tsp per gallon of water to sterilize equipment". From what I've read in other posts this dosage is considerably lower than what others use to...

I've been making wine for a few years now. I live in Western New York and get the grape juice from a local supplier. I've had pretty good luck with my white wines; the taste is generally good. I have not had good luck with the reds. Once fermentation stops, the taste is very harsh. I've tried...

Hello, I have both a white and red 5 gallon carboy that both seem to have stalled fermentation. Both started off with a S.G. of about 1.084 when I put the yeast in on November 11th. I have been checking the S.G. regularly and I have stalled at 1.031 for the red and 1.035 for the white. They...

Well I made a dumb mistake :slp. I have 2 carboys - one filled with Red grape must and the other filled with white grape must. I had a yeast packet of Montrachet for the red and a packet of Cote des Blancs for the white. The mistake is that I poured both into the carboy with the white grape...

Hello, I'm looking for guidance on deacidification of wine. I've been making wine from grape juice for a few years now and the I don't like the sharp "bite" to the finished wine which i'm attributing to the acid. I just purchased 5 gallons of Fredonia grape juice - The "acid" level from the...