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I made strawberry wine using the recipe in Jack Keller's book. It fermented dry to 0.991. I bottled last night, and this morning there are tiny bubbles at the top in the necks of some of the bottles. Not lots of bubbles just a few in some. I usually backsweeten wine and use K sorbate, but didn't...

I consistently struggle to get Skeeter Pee to ferment dry. I have a harder time when following the original recipe which calls for 2 bottles of lemon juice at the start and 1 midway through. I've had more success adding 1 bottle at the start and the rest after fermentation is done, but it seems...

A couple months ago, my uncle mentioned he had my grandmother's old winemaking stuff in his garage and offered it to us. He dropped it off yesterday and these are the carboys he gave us. I have never seen this kind of plastic carboys before. You can see they are far from clean, but since they...

I am making the strawberry wine in Jack Keller's book for the first time, which doesn't call for acid/acid adjustments until a couple months in. The recipe steps: 1. Primary fermentation 2. Rack to secondary once SG is 1.020 or lower if fermentation is still vigorous 3. Wait 30 days, rack again...

I've been looking for weeks in local grocery stores and there seems to be are limited/no options. The only frozen juice concentrates I can find are orange/citrus juice, and 25 different varieties of "punch". I've been looking for juice on shelves as well and have not been able to find one that...

I am making my 6th batch using the Dragon Blood recipe, and the first time with blueberries. The first 5 batches all behaved similar, including the time to finish fermenting, and all ended at 0.990. The blueberry DB started similar until it reached 1.026 SG, and since then, it's been going...

My local wine store recently got these in and I was wondering if anyone has tried them (or anything similar). I was specifically wondering if anyone has used one in combination with a kit. I'm hesitant to ruin a batch so I thought I'd ask here. If they are good, it would be an easy way to get...

When we purchased the kit, the ppl at the wine store said that we could fortify it with brandy at bottling. We are ready to bottle and have brandy, but am wondering how much to add. The kit made 3 gal and we have 2 x 750ml bottles of E&J Gallo brandy available (which is more than we need I...

I started a 3 gal Chocolate Raspberry kit on Friday and messed taking the initial SG reading. I was exhausted and should have waited until my brain was working properly. I wrote down 1.065, which is much lower than it should have been, so I am certain it's incorrect. I made it exactly following...

It was our first time bottling and I got distracted and put an already corked bottle into the floor press. 🤦‍♀️ The first cork is mostly submerged in wine now. Is this bottle still fine to age a few months and we can worry about getting the cork out after we drink the wine?

I decided to take the leap into winemaking after acquiring nearly all of the equipment I'd need for a crazy good price at a garage sale. I started with a kit (Orchard Breezin spritzer) to learn the general process. Since it was low abv, I used 4L jugs. I'll be trying bottling for the first time...