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Has anyone tried making a Bison grass flavored wine? Bison grass is also called sweetgrass in the USA. I got the idea for trying this from some Zubrowka Vodka that I had in Eastern Europe which is flavored with Bison grass. Wonderful! The FDA in the USA doesn't allow it to be sold here...

I've gotten interested in ancient winemaking techniques. Particularly the quality of the resulting wines. In ancient times, there was a thriving trade in wines. Some regions and vintages were especially prized, so it must have been reasonably "good", even though ancient tastes were quite...

Well, my most recent small wine batches finished fermenting yesterday. I did an apple wine from organic apple juice and some white grape wine from Welches juice. I used a Red Star wine yeast. The apple wine fermented dry to 0.990 and the white grape juice wine fermented to 0.991. I...

I'm definitely a newbie.and am trying to learn. Does.anyone.use a taste.test to determine when fermentation is complete? I'm using a hydrometer but am hesitant to take too many readings since my batches are quite.small at the moment. I'm concerned that the sampling process.might contaminate...

I've read about two methods for fermenting wines. One uses the same vessel with an airlock And some headspace for the entire fermentation process. The oxygen in the headspace is all that sill be available for initial yeast growth. The other uses an open container for primary fermentation...

My first attempt at "grocery store" winemaking has been a success! At least as far as I am concerned. I used the approach and recipe as described by "Paw Paw" on YouTube and all I wanted was something that wasn't undrinkable. It actually turned out pretty good. At least it's comparable to...

Ok! I'm two weeks into fermentation of my grocery store juice wines. Still tiny fermentation bubbles going. Have not measured SG since the start. I'll do that in a couple more days. While that's bubbling away, I want to start another batch. This time, I have a 3-quart jug of organic apple...

I started several juice bottles fermenting and two of the three are gently bubbling away. The third already has a sediment on the bottom and as far as I can tell is not fermenting. The third was an experiment. 2/3 of the bottle was what I removed from the other juice bottles, but 1/3 was...

I'm brand new at winemaking, and have three 1/2 gallon fruit juice bottles that have been fermenting happily away for about a week. I think that in the future, I will want to use larger fermenting vessels than the 1/2 gallon grocery store bottle. I know I can't physically handle 5 gallon...

Hello, I'm very new to winemaking. All the instructions I've seen make it seem expensive and complicated. Then I found the YouTube videos that "Paw Paw" has posted using baker's yeast, did a little more research and decided to give it a go! The 64oz bottles are good for me because I can't...

I started several small bottles of grocery store juice wine. 64 Oz bottles. I used Red Star Premier Cuvee and divided the yeast between the three 64 oz bottles. It's in a cabinet at about 70 degrees F. Specific gravity is 1.110 in two bottles and 1.12 in the third. Today is the third day...