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Yeah I bought 12oz bags for 50 cent each.... my freezer is full! Making wine and jam with it!!!

Looking for a good Christmas wine recipe. I just don't know how cloves, cinnamon, cranberries, nutmeg, etc... would work for fermenting.... can you use it from the beginning or add after. Use extracts? I just made a great strawberry pomegranate that could be turned into a good Christmas wine. I...

Anybody know where to get a 10 gallon used barrel for whiskey/bourbon for a reasonable price?

Using my hydrometer. I do the initial measure (usually around 11% or 12%) and then I do the math after that. When I add sugar I check weight and when it eats the sugar and weight changes I calculate from there.

I am not adding Camden tablets before but I will now. Thank you! We have a local brew shop but i did not discover it was there till after this pandemic started. I'm planning to go when this is over and see if there are local brew people around.

I forgot to put that I use 2x the amount of fruit called for to try and cover the high alcohol

So I am new to wine making. I have my 3rd batch going right now. I come out with about 2 gallons each time. I loosely follow recipes from the boon I got and creditable websites. I have made Pinapple and strawberry Strawberry, BlackBerry, and pomegranate Mango and strawberry My first 2 came...

Paid $1.63 per gallon yesterday. In North Carolina.

I have used honey and brown sugar to back sweeten. It gives it a good flavor. Agave nectar is not good to use as the initial sugar. It took waaaaay to much to bring my levels up lol

I use honey almost every batch. I start with a mix of honey and sugar. Then i feed honey during the first 5 tob7 days to up the alcohol. I originally used it because it was easy to add to it, but it gave it good flavor.

Why not? And what would you suggest using?

I have only used purified. For my first batch I bought distilled and a friend of mine who brews for a local place said it's best not to use it. Then I googled it.

So I have read where you can use vodka to top off carboy after racking. Was wondering if anybody had done it and if so could tell me how it went. Today I bought a strawberry and a mango vodka. (Strawberry mango wine in the carboy right now)

I would also use purified water instead of distilled. Distilled water has a lot of minerals taken out. Those key chemical elements are what yeast uses in order to produce wine. Not that you can't use it to make wine just better to use a different type of water.

So my office has one of those water coolers. We have lots of the empty jugs from it. Can I use this for a carboy. You know since it's free. Lol

Luckily my wine doesn't last to long when bottled. Lol

Do you add the lorann to the simple syrup normally?

Thanks for all the feedback guys! I have a batch of strawberry mango wine with about 3 weeks left right now. I will experiment a little with it using flavored syrups and f-packs.

I was wondering if it is possible to use flavored simple syrups to backsweeten wine to obviously help sweeten it, but also to help add a bit more flavor. I know Monin and Torani make fruit flavored ones that are high in sugar. I don't know if there are anything in the syrup that will hurt it, or...