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My girlfriend at the time was making maple syrup. I don't know what it was but the syrup never got thick enough. So I suggested we take that syrup and ferment it an make a sort of maple wine, similar to a mead. After that I received some demijohns from a neighbor that had just passed. I decided...

Thanks for the help guys. I've bought myself an RV pump that is for potable water. It's a diaphragm pump and I got it on amazon for 120 bucks and when using the full size opening at max PSI it's 5GPM. All I had to do was buy a power-supply for the thing, a racking cane and some 1/2" tubing. I've...

I have made peach wine for 2 years in a row now. Granted I don't make it like other recipies that call for basically making a peach tea. I hand pit a tonne of peaches and then add some pectic enzyme, juice concentrate to up the brix and body, and then plain old table sugar. I add a yeast slurry...

So I've got two 54L demijohns and I was wondering how I should go about bottling my wine now that it's clear and ready. I have a racking cane and a simple bottling wand. I also have some 5 gallon buckets with a spigot on them that I've used in the past. Should I sulfite my wine transfer to 5...

What's the reccomended dosage for Sparkaloid. Do I just follow the package advice of 1 tablespoon per 6 gallons, or is that too much?

so the lees are starting to compact some more and the wine is looking a bit clearer. I've looked at positively charged fining agents. Should I use sparkaloid, isinglass or gelatin or chitosan to finish fining my wine? I want to have minial effect on the tannin profile, since last year when I did...

I added some bentonite to clear up some peach wine I have sitting in some 55L demijohns. I did a 10g to 100ml filtered water ratio for it. I boiled the water placed that into a blender and slowly added the bentonite into the blender while the water was still hot. I let it sit in the blender...