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  1. Dmaley

    Step Feeding Protocol

    You and salcoco were right on. Thanks for the advice! Rechecked gravity and it was down from 1.010 to 1.002 so it was doing its thing without looking like it. I pushed it back up to 1.010, stirred it in well and it's off again. Thanks, again!
  2. Dmaley

    Step Feeding Protocol

    Forgive me for high jacking this thread but I have a noob question... I have a stalled ferment of a fruit wine I need some help with. My intent was to step feed up to about 17 - 18%. I started with 1.095 and it feremted down to 1.00. I added 1.5 lb of table sugar (in a 6.5 gallon batch) to...
  3. Dmaley

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    It's not got a bad flavor. Still very yeasty and still just a tad sweet for my liking but not too bad. I know the tartness will need some sugar to tame it down a bit anyway, if fermented till dry. My last starter I added, which was about 10 days ago, I rehydrate the yeast with go ferm then...
  4. Dmaley

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    OK, thanks for the info. I'll keep this in mind next time.
  5. Dmaley

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    I see, thanks for the tip. That may have been part of my problem. I started at 1.118. It's finally down to about 1.015 now but I have to restart it twice. Temp is about 75 F.
  6. Dmaley

    Yeast Nutrient Vs Yeast energizer SP question

    Thank you Sailor 323! The link was very helpful.
  7. Dmaley

    Yeast Nutrient Vs Yeast energizer SP question

    I have read these posts but I am still unclear about when each of the Nutrient and Energizer should be added. I have been using the Go Ferm yeast Re-hydration nutrient when I re-hydrate the yeast at 1.25 * the amount of yeast used to start. Do I need to add any more as the yeast mulitply or...
  8. Dmaley

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    I am just finishing up a primary fermentation on a cranberry wine, from 100% juice, and it went poorly. It took 2 months to go from 1.118 to 1.050, as of last week. It stopped once and I bumped up the pH and added a starter to get it going again. It may be near 1.0 at this point. I get a...
  9. Dmaley

    Cranberry wine from pure cranberry juice, any tips?

    Greetings, Tom. Noob question... Why no higher than 1.085 OG?
  10. Dmaley

    Acidity?

    Thanks for the tip Raptor. I'll keep trying on the refractometer. Interseting articles. Seems that I may have salt crystals precipitating out for some time.
  11. Dmaley

    Acidity?

    Thanks for the info! I did not know that about refractometers. I got the Refractometer for Christmas from someone equally as clueless as I (in wine making) and I have no idea how to use it. I read the directions and tested with distilled water and I see the blue/white transition at 0...
  12. Dmaley

    Acidity?

    Hydrometer. I have a refractometer but other than measuring the SG of water I don't know how to use it. I tried to use it to measure the OG of this cranberry must but it showed no blue line anywhere on the meter. 🤔. I figure I'm doing somthing wrong.
  13. Dmaley

    Acidity?

    If I may ask, why is Potassium carbonate better than Calcium Carbonate? I don't have a clue so that's why I'm asking. I am working on a stubborn Cranberry wine (5 gallon) made from 100% juice with a OG of 1.118 (white granulated sugar added). After the slow-ish fermentation stopped at about...
  14. Dmaley

    Greetings all. Need Lots of help! :-)

    Thank you for the welcome and thank you for the terminology lesson! I'll take it all! I learned that it was called an Apple Cysor from internet reading but I had not heard the term Melomel yet. Interesting... Thank you!
  15. Dmaley

    Greetings all. Need Lots of help! :-)

    Thank you for the welcome! I am located in Central Indiana.
  16. Dmaley

    Greetings all. Need Lots of help! :-)

    Shout out o my fellow Beek! :). How'd you do this last winter.
  17. Dmaley

    Greetings all. Need Lots of help! :-)

    1 lb = 12 liquid ounces too, BTW, in case you were wanting to know gallons instead of weight.
  18. Dmaley

    Greetings all. Need Lots of help! :-)

    On a decent year, about 40-50 lbs. This was fall honey which is not as pretty as spring honey so I decided I would just ferment it instead of bottle and sell.
  19. Dmaley

    Greetings all. Need Lots of help! :-)

    Got interested in wine making because I'm a beekeeper who had extra honey, so I made Apple Mead with it. It turned out great and now I'm hooked on wine making. I love learning new things so I'm hoping that the contributors of this wonderful forum can help me learn. Thank you and I look...
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