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I have a really good smelling black cherry wine that I have already backsweetened and is just waiting a couple months before I bottle. It's been a couple weeks but the 6 gallon batch is a little shy of six gallons and is only filling to about an inch below the sides before the glass starts...

Hi. I planted a couple 5 gallon melthley plum trees. I was told that plum wine is amazing and found these on the home Depot website. Not expecting much in terms of fruit production for the next 2-4 years, but I'm hoping it will be worth the wait. Anyone have experience with wine made from this...

I have a fun tasting dark cherry wine that is about a week from being racked to a carboy leaving that wonderful lees behind for making skeeter Pee. Thing is I have a lot going on that weekend. I wondered if anyone has had success putting that slurry into a container and keeping it in a...

I'm pretty new to this, but I have about 6 batches completed or in progress and am pleased with the outcome of my meads, dragon blood and skeeter Pee variations. But my wife enjoys Riesling wine, and I have no experience with making wine from grapes. I don't have a grape vine and know it will...

I'm a newbie, just started this hobby last October. I'm learning as I go, but made what I think is a fatal flaw in my DB-SP batch. I had things going well after primary and it went into secondary carboy. I had about a quart more than would fit, so I put the extra in a quart jar. I added the...

Hi folks! I'm a beginner to all this, but I have a 5 gallon batch of mead that I think is coming along fine. I have also been making country fruit wines and noted the use of Sparkoloid in them to clear them. My mead was pretty cloudy, so I decided to give the Sparkoloid a try. It has cleared it...

Hi all, I have a batch of Skeeter Pee that I tried to follow the instructions on the skeeterpee.com website. I'm worried I racked to the carboy to ferment to dry a little too early. In the fifth paragraph of the recipe (see attachment for recipe, which I copied and converted to pdf), it says...

So this is less a which is better, but rather which am I making! I started a regular batch of Skeeter Pee, but thought the tropical fruit flavors in my grocer's freezer section would be a great additive. So I started with the standard 2 bottles of lemon juice, but added 3 pounds of pineapple...

Hello everyone. I noticed that some of my bottled wine had a more acid taste than others and just realized that may be because I have been using a solution of Star San before bottling. I see faucet attachments to rinse the bottles. Should I be using one of these or just simply give my bottles a...

Hi all! I started a new batch of Skeeter Pee and decided to add 3 pounds of pineapple, mango, peach and strawberries to the mix. This got me thinking that maybe I should reduce the amount of lemon juice to enhance the fruit flavors. So far I have kept the recipe the same as I am just at the...

Hi everyone. I'll preface this with the fact that I've never made wine from grapes, only fruit berries and honey for mead. So please excuse my ignorance. I have a small plot of land and have about 15 -20 linear feet of space available to plant a small grapevine. I'm considering all facets, what...

Hi everyone. I had a plan to start a batch of blackberry wine and then use the lees from the primary in a batch of skeeter Pee. However, I currently have a batch of mead in my fermenter and would be throwing away the lees after racking this weekend. Would that work the same as a blackberry...

Hi everyone. I started making mead a couple months ago. My first wasn't that great, but might get better with time. My second batch is about 3 weeks from getting bottled and a sampling of it shows great promise! Both of those batches were 1 gallon and I recently bought a 6.5 gallon fermenting...

Hello to all from Louisville, KY. I was introduced to mead by my late brother and with the generous donation of honey from a friend who happens to be a beekeeper, I started my first batch. I bought the book, "The Compleat Meadmaker" by Ken Schramm and dove in. Shortly after starting the first...