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I started my first strawberry wine the other day. Meijer had them on sale for 99 cents per pound so I bought 24lb. The strawberries were somewhat tasteless so I decided to do a 3 gallon batch. After destemming/cleaning I ended up with 22lb of berries. Recipe - 03-17-24 22lb clean strawberries...

I bought 10lb of Black currant concentrate that I want to make wine with. I know acidity is high so I diluted a 1oz sample of concentrate to 20oz with well water and enough sugar to bring the SG up to 1.104. I then took it to work for testing. pH was 3.00 and TA came in at 1.1% (11g/L). This was...

Just wanted to share with you all a helpful trick I learned if you’re doing primary in a carboy that you filled up too high. All you have to do is put a little nylon fruit mesh bag over the carboy top, sinch it up and stuff it inside. This will minimize or eliminate the bubbles from coming up...

I’m curious if anyone leaves their stirrer, whatever it may be, in the primary bucket during primary. I have been doing this for the last five batches and have not had any problems. I feel like it’s much easier and introduces less chance of bacteria getting in than constantly taking it out and...

Met a couple on the 4th of July that brought over a homemade bottle of blueberry wine to the party. Got to talking and this is what they told me about their recipe and procedure. Ingredients list 9lb frozen wild blueberries 12.5lb sugar Water 1 packet Red Star Premier Classique 1 packet Red Star...