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So I finally got around to adding sorbate and k-meta. Do I need to sweeten immediately after adding or do I wait. Is time on my side during the wine making process? Does it hurt to sit in secondary fermentation for a few extra weeks without adding kmeta and sorbate?

Hi Neighbor! We're lucky here in Minneapolis to have a few great home brew shops. I know both Northern Brewer and Midwest Brewing Supplies have some great 6 gallon kits that have everything you need to start. The only thing they don't come with is a cleaning agent like one step or BBrite...

I've got a welch's raspberry concentrate that I just racked for the second time. The SG is at .995. The beginning SG was 1.085. I tasted and I got a good raspberry flavor but it was very dry. I'm going to want to sweeten this up a tad I think, so I have a few quesitons. At this point...

So with cider wine would it make sense to add sugar up to PA of 11 - 12 % ?

Doh! But which makes better wine?! I guess I'll just have to make both! AND hard cider! I'm gonna need more carboys!

Fall is coming here in Minnesota so that means the apple orchards will be making cider in full force. I've seen a lot of posts about making apple wine and it sounds pretty good. My question is: What's the difference between apple wine and apple cider wine? Does it matter if the cider is...

smurfe- I'm pretty certain I recreated your science experiment. I've been using the primary to clean my other equipment and always spray some sanitizer in when I'm done, but I had the cap snapped on when I put it away and I know it wasn't dry. It had a pretty good wine must smell to it, so...

I just opened my 7 gallon primary after its been sitting around for a while preparing to start a new kit. I guess I must not have cleaned it very well the last time i used it because I found some goodies growing inside. I cleaned it out with B-Brite and brushed out the insides and top with...

I degassed tonight. I used a drill mounted whip the first time but my drill was running low on juice... so maybe I didn't hit it hard enough. It foamed up pretty good the first time i degassed, but this time around it seemed like i got quite a bit more foam coming up. I took a sample in a...

OK, I'm going to degas again and add a bit of k-meta tonight. How much k-meta should I add? How long should I wait until bottling after this?

I racked from the primary to secondary per the instructions. Looking at the crud closer I believe it to be sediment. I thought the airlock had equalized but I just checked it again and it appears that it is still moving a bit. Could fermentation have started back up after i added the...

All, I've got a Winexpert's Island Mist kit that is awaiting bottling. I set the carboy away in a closet and for the last couple of weeks and have been waiting patiently for this time to come. I just checked on it for the first time since I put it away and noticed that the water in the...

Sure! °Brix: 25.1 TA: 15.4 g/L pH: 2.9 From what I understand, the TA is quite high.

Thanks all! I think I'll skip the concentrates and go right to the fruit! I'm impressed with this group and the great responses! I've been doing some searching and have found a vineyard that offers a pick your own for home winemakers. It looks like they have some frontenac grapes which...

Hello all. I just started my first kit wine and want to try something else. I'm looking to start a small batch of frozen concentrate wine as the next step. I was going to try Terry Garey's simple apple concentrate recipe from her book 'The Joy of Home Winemaking' but I was going to sub...