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    Rubber bung won't stay put

    The glass loop handle on the carboy. I only make 1 gal batches because I'm too small to wrestle with 5 gal carboys - I'm guessing the larger ones don't have that handle. But in my head I can still see my method working on a carboy without one, just twisting the wire along and down the other...
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    Rubber bung won't stay put

    I use plastic coated wire and build a kind of cage. I loop the wire once around the airlock and twist it away from the handle, make a few twists down that far side of the carboy neck, then bring each side around the neck toward the handle, pass them through the handle, bring up in a...
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    Does anyone just cork and skip the shrink wrap?

    I use shrink caps. Boil water in a pot deep enough to insert the length of the cap plus a little more. When it comes to a boil or nearly there, hold the cap at the bottom - the lowest part on the neck - with your finger. The moment it the top is in the water you can release your finger and...
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    Flowers of wine or…?

    I can only answer to my experience, but when both of my fig wines formed this kind of film, it only got worse and reappeared even after rackings. My current batch has been racked twice, and the film is forming around the edges again but less of it and more slowly, likely because I've treated it...
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    Flowers of wine or…?

    I've had trouble twice making fig wine - both batches got flowers. The first time it was really bad but I salvaged it to become a really decent wine. The second time I added more kmeta to the must try to prevent it and got flowers again, but not as bad. That batch is currently bulk aging, and...
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    Acorn wine - I'm going for it!

    Can you use the acorns from any oak tree, or just specific types? I'm intrigued.
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    Those PESKY fruit flies!

    I ferment in my kitchen, and this late summer they have been awful. Having little to no success with a traditional vinegar/wine and dish soap trap, bleach down the sink drains, etc., I bought a trap that is a UV light and fan that sucks them down into a sticky trap. However, my trap also has a...
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    What are you making and what have you made ???

    I'm making a peach with about 10lbs of peaches and a gallon of white grape peach juice. Interested to see how this turns out. I was shocked when the ph came to 3.56. Last time I made peach with only peaches and water I had to significantly raise it.
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    Using figs??

    I made a fig last year that turned out great. Doesn't taste like Figs, like a strawberry will taste like strawberry, which was nice because I don't love figs to just eat. My dad gave them to me, and I said What the heck, I'll go for it. Glad I did as it is a nice, subtle wine. I made another...
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    Blackberries, black raspberries and other similar

    Yep - and in a 1 gal batch, instead of the 5 gal the original recipe is created for, it ferments like gangbusters. Plus, I get the actual flavor from the fruit wine slurry with a lemon flavor from the lemon juice instead of what I expect is a hint of fruit wine flavor in a larger batch. I've...
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    Blackberries, black raspberries and other similar

    I've used blackberry slurry to start a 1 gal Skeeter Pee. Made a delicious wine that has been very popular and requested by my friends. In fact, I have a blackberry fermenting right now, and will put the slurry in the fridge for a week or so - we are going away for the weekend - and start a...
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    Going to San Francisco in October would like info on wineries

    You have received great tips here, but one I can add is to check online before visiting wineries to see if reservations are required. When we visited Napa and Sonoma two years ago, we found that every winery required reservations. We missed out on some we wanted to try as a result of not doing...
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    Blackberries, black raspberries and other similar

    I had the same problem with my siphon - worked OK at first when I got it, but then later on began to send bubbles down my siphon hose into my carboy, bottles - I was cringing and furious - why is this thing putting all of this air into my wine?? Pinching the hose at the bend, holding the inner...
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    fig wine or paw paw wine a possibility?

    I've made fig twice now. The second batch has been in secondary a few weeks now. BOTH developed flowers, the second batch I have on the counter to start fighting the infection hopefully today. Knee surgery is delaying my winemaking, during fruit season. Argh. Tastewise, it's a mellow wine...
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    how did you start winemaking?

    I'm a wine snob who won't even politely finish a sample at a tasting if I don't like it. Let's face it - life is short, drink the good stuff. However... Two years ago I saw a recipe on Farmer's Almanac for dandelion wine. A winery I'd visited the previous year made dandelion wine and sold it...
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    Honeysuckle wine question

    The ratio of fresh to dry herbs is usually 3 tsp fresh to 1 tsp dried, so maybe try that. I've always used fresh flowers - I'd be very interested to know how dried turns out, if when dried it keeps it's nectar flavor or not. I've made mint wine, where I couldn't use it immediately so I dried...
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    Has anyone made honeysuckle wine?

    OK, @BigDaveK, I have enough honeysuckle in the freezer for my wine. May put the must together today. Quick question about yours where you put the flowers in for fermentation. You say that it is fruity. I think you were the person who also made daylily wine and it originally came out fruity...
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    The use of Rose Petals in a recipe

    😂 Have fun! Would love to hear your update.
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    Struggling to find bulk lemon juice in the UK, will this work?

    Yes. Same recipe, just different lemon juice.
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    Struggling to find bulk lemon juice in the UK, will this work?

    I don't know if this will be helpful, but Amazon sells an organic lemon juice, Italian Volcano, that I made a Skeeter Pee version with. It turned out incredible. Not Skeeter Pee-ish at all, it has a much more refined taste than the Real Lemon brand I usually use. Here's a link to one of the...
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