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Mom is turning 80 in a couple years. She loves elderberry wine and I am determined to make her the best elderberry wine possible for her birthday. Please share your recipes. My commitment is to make them all in small batches and find the perfect one, as far as me mum is concerned anyway. I...

Can’t find this kit anywhere now. If anyone sees one, please do me a huge favor and PM me. I don’t care that it’s over a year old I want another one! (Or two)

I see an EBay and Amazon user selling winemaking supplies and kits and I’m wondering if this is a known retailer operating under a different name for online sales? Anyone know or have experience with this company, Quality Quick Ship?

well this just showed up. This giant glass bottle is as tall as a 5gl carboy and holds 5L- almost 7 bottles of wine!

I like to tell on myself when I screw up in hopes that some might learn from my mistakes, some will get a good laugh, and (hopefully) some will tell me that it will all be ok. Bottling day for the LE Negroamaro and I’m as happy as Conolel Sanders at a chicken frying contest because I know...

I have a 5 gallon batch of rhubarb/strawberry wine that I just racked off sediment in the secondary. I need about one full bottle of wine to top up the carboy and eliminate the headspace. What would you all recommend for this task? I don’t have any more fruit wines available so it will have...

After cleaning bottles and sanitizing with kmeta, do you rinse with tap water or just bottle into the residual kmeta?

Found this at the local hardware store. Interesting for sure. As far as I know, They are simply cut-up used bourbon barrels. No idea of age, condition, etc... Wondering if it would be possible to use them in wine making. Sanitizing would be a big challenge I would think. And the fact that...

I have ordered almost exclusively from a certain retailer in Kent, Ohio for two years. Had to call customer service for the first time last week and whoa what a nightmare it has been. Three calls, three promises and 10 days later still no shipment on items that I was told were in stock. I...

Just about to bottle a WE LE French Merlot. I would love to let it age another few months but I need the carboy and it is next in line for the honor. Anyway, it is good, I had a glass of it last night. It does however, have a slight aftertaste of soap. Way at the back of my tongue, very...

Just picked up my first juice buckets, a Chilean Petit Syrah and a Pinot Noir. They are resting as the temperature acclimates to our house. The SG looks good on both, 1.084 and 1.090 but the PH seems high. They are both reading 3.7 on my calibrated Hanna PH meter. Should I make adjustments...

This press is for sale at a local flee market. Does any one recognize it? What would it be worth. I would be purchasing more for decor than actual use, but would it work? Thanks for any insight.

How do we as amateur wine makers check for SO2 levels? I know just enough to know how important it is but not sure if it’s $300 - $800 important. Please advise!

Do you have any reccomendations for an under $100 kit. Particularly interested in dry reds but open to anything. I’ll add our favorites so far: #1- WE IS Sangiovese #2- WE IS Chile Pinot Noir

I’m pretty sure “unfermentable” is not a word but I’m having that problem right now. I decided to make a small batch of elderberry wine before committing to a larger stock. I bought several bottles of Elderberry juice from the local grocery store and proceeded to make a simple fruit wine...

Looking for pictures of your commercial style brew room. I like stainless counters & sinks and simple, easy to clean surfaces. Please post away, be an enabler! Thank you!

It was my turn to make a really dumb mistake last night, you might even call it stupid! I removed the airlock from a carboy of wine in the clarifying stage and forgot to put it back it. I found my mistake today. The stopper was still installed so there was about a 1/4 inch hole letting the...

I broke away from using champagne yeast in my red wine a few kits ago and have been happy using RC212. I don’t know how much of a difference it makes in the end but it makes me feel better. I do add extra nutrients as I assume the kit is set-up for the lower demanding 1118. Now for the...

been reading the forums and using them as a life saving resource for a long time. Finally made an account to ask annoying questions and give the occasional $.02. I’ve made a dozen wine kits, beer kits, mead, fruit wines and Skeeter Pee over the years so I’m still pretty much a noob. I have...