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I have a gallon bubbling away steadily, followed the directions to a T, including the yeast; settling out but far from clear at this point, but it's only two weeks. I have neighbors with bees and want to give them some, so we can do a honey-for-mead exchange - it would help a lot if it was...

Thanks for the flashlight tip, Smurfe - I tried it on a gallon of green tea wine in a glass jug SG has been stable for weeks) that I was wondering about, and I can definitely see the track of the light. How long can the process take from start to finish? I've only done one other batch not...

I laid them down right away. I thought wine was supposed to be in contact with the cork. I got all the equipment from a friend, so I didn't have any instructions other than the kit wine ones at first, and didn't think to check here about bottling techniques. The wine in the leaking bottle I...

leaking corks I bottled a kit Chianti several months ago. Out of ignorance I used #9 corks in 750ml bottles, and put the bottles on their sides right away. A few are leaking slightly. Any remedy? Or do I just drink those first? Is there a possibility the wine is contaminated by this? If wine...

I have one kit, my first, a Chianti bottled, should be ready to drink late July according the the instructions (RJS); the dandelion, and the tea so far. I'm researching what to start next; I'd like to make a dry red, checking out the shop nearest me this afternoon. They don't have any...

The tea wine recipe called for a cup of chopped golden raisins, 2 lemons, 1 lime (juice and zest from these), 2 lbs sugar and 18 teabags or tsps of green tea. Lipton has a green tea I particularly like, with orange, passionfruit and jasmine, so I tried some of that and some other plain green...

In response to your question St Allie - started a gallon of green tea wine using the rest of the champagne yeast. I like tea almost as much as I like wine, so... I have taken the dandelion wine off the secondary into a clean carboy with marbles to fill to the neck; is there a minimum time to...

Finally a dandelion use I like! I never did like the greens, too bitter for me though my husband likes them in salads. My first batch of wine has cleared and stabilized, SG .996; it's not as sweet as one I had tasted earlier, and I like dryer wines, so that's good with me. It is a little...

More upstate NY abuse (from upstate NY) My husband's favorite Foxworthy line that he thought applied to us, and our poor rural area in upstate NY - When a tornado comes through your area and does $100,000 worth of improvements. I love it here! We are in Schoharie County, and I grew...

Heat an issue? I put it into a smaller one-gallon jug, still fermenting but slowly. Last batch went fast and furious, but it was a kit wine. The dandelion must smells good, tastes OK, but sg is 1.05. It's cool in our house in the spring and fall; we heat with wood usually, and we'd get cooked...

Plastic barrel at present, will rerack it to a smaller one as soon as I can find one and see what I've got. Will a gallon juice jug or something like that work? I guess something the airlock is made to fit in would be best. Ain't over til it's over, right? Thanks for the help!

About how long...? I have a batch of this underway, and am wondering what kind of time frame to use to rerack after initial fermentation is complete. I used a champagne yeast; it's in a big fermenter (six gallon) as I didn't have a smaller one and it seemed hard to be sure when fermentation...

My husband had a nifty little device from his beermaking equipment that fit on the end of the siphoning wand, seems to have just kept it a little above the lees without tilting or moving it around at all. The siphon stopped pulling before any sediment came up, and we still got 29 bottles; is...

these were stored in a garage, probably over about two years, just the usual dust, but a sediment of wine right around the base I couldn't seem to dislodge. I scraped off the labels with no problem after a few soakings, but could still see the sediment ringing the bases if I held them up to...

Cork size These are a #9; I got them when I got the bottles, 759 ml., but I guess the person assisting me doesn't do any bottling because she thought they would be OK. Between us we got them all squeezed in though. My husband had been planting trees at work for the day, then hauling water to...

Hand Corker Filled them with the syphon and clamp, topped off or filled with a little from a two cup measure to keep it to about an inch of space once the cork was in all the way. I can see that a more stable setup that holds the bottle flat and steady would be helpful. Having two people was a...

Thanks ! I'll do that. Thanks! Oxyclean is good stuff!

A friend gave me a bunch of wine bottles for my first batch of wine (I helped her empty some of them!). I can't seem to get all the sediment out of the bottles, though I did get the dust and spiders. I tried soap and hot water, and soap and boiling water, and let them sit a little before...

We have corked our first batch with a hand corker; some of the corks did not quite fit flush into the bottles, all are within an inch of the wine as was recommended, but leave up to 1/4" cork exposed at the top. Seemed worse with the new bottles; I told my husband that the old bottles had had...

Heading out - I found a winery not too far away from me, near Oneonta NY, that has winemaking supplies. Going there today to get the meta/campden tablets, a filter and yeast since I am determined to try a dandelion wine next, and whatever else strikes my fancy and I imagine I can't live...