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Thank you for the great advice. No recycling places anywhere close to where I live, but when I go back to work (Dallas area) I will see what I can find there. (I've been off work for foot/ankle surgery for about a month.) There are a few antique shops in Paris Tx which is about 25 min from me...

OMG! 9-12 mo!????? . Ok. I will put it somewhere out of sight/out of mind. Can i at least backsweeten a couple glasses to tease myself and my daughters in law? lol. I will steer clear of watermelon and focus on peach next. I don’t know what tb plum smells like. Strange smell, but tastes good...

Soooooo....... K-Meta/Campden tablets and let sit for a little while and then back sweeten? Definitely something sweeter than it is now. It was delish a few weeks ago, it's quite sharp and dry now. yucky! Plum wine has SG of 1.070 now with the hydrometer. So, it's slowly getting there...

Scooter68 and sour_grapes......GUESS WHAT!!!! I got my new hydrometer (ordered 3) in the mail today.........checked the SG on my blackberry wine.....guess what it REALLY is........ 0.995!!!!!! Yes, I am pumped!

Ok. THANKS! I will try the acid blend and see if that makes any difference.

I used a red pkt "Premier rouge" from Red Star active dry yeast and put it in some warm water for about 20 minutes before adding it. i also added yeast nutrient and yeast energizer. It kinda smells funny.....not necessarily spoiled, but not really yeasty either, but tastes delicious.....sweet...

Scooter68.....pH on blackberry wine is 3.5

Scooter68....pH on plum wine is 3.1

Thank you Scooter68! It does have a bite to it and alcohol burn. It actually tasted better a few days ago, but I think because it was sweeter. I will give it a little stir and see if it will get it going again. I do have something to measure the pH......haven't yet, but will today and see...

Thank you sour grapes! It all gives me a headache! should be an easier way!

I started the wild plum wine on 6-30-18 with a SG of 1.095. It is now 7-12-18 with a SG of 1.080. Lots of bubbling from the airlock. I think that's really slow???? What do you think? It barely has an alcohol taste and still tastes really sweet......but yummy! Just keep waiting?

Hey guys, I'm still working on the blackberry wine....... I think it "looks" better. The bubbling in the airlock has slowed way down. I checked the SG on it this morning and it is 1.030. When I started it on 6-19-18 it was 1.090. Is there something i should do it to get it going again or am I...

Scooter, where I live......if it's after Dec 1, I know several families in Hugo that I will call and they will EAT them! NOT JOKING! A few years ago, I decided I was gonna try it since they ALWAYS wanted them to eat. It stunk up my whole house, BUT it was delicious. True story!

Scooter68 and Slappy.....you all are cracking me up. i'm country.....I won't hesitate to shoot the culprits if I get the opportunity. Problem is, there are SOOOOO many of them. I have game camera pics of 5 or 6 in the same pic.

Just hoping the raccoons don't beat me to the pears........unfortunately, they usually do!

Thank you!!!

Great advice! Thank you!

Thank you! Another question.......my carboy is about 1/2 full. Is the 1/2 bottle of air going to damage my wine? Should I have made more or gotten a smaller carboy?

I live out in the country and often have access to fresh fruit......ex, I have two loaded pear trees and am thinking if I can successfully make blackberry and plum wine, why not pear?????? So, I probably wont be using a lot of fruit concentrate from a can. I just thought surely I had to heat the...

Thank you so very much for your advice. I am learning a LOT from eveyone's help!!!! Next question, this morning, the stopper that the 3 piece Airlock is about 1/2 in the carboy. Is that because the air pressure in the carboy is pushing it out or just because of the shape of the rubber stopper...