Hello everyone and thanks for reading.
I have a 6 gallon batch of strawberry wine I made this past June. After letting in set for a couple of months I added some flavoring along with the recommended amounts of k-meta and potassium sorbate. I noticed no indication of renewed fermentation...
If they've been cut down to ground level it's possible that you could be growing rootstock which won't produce good wine grapes if any at all. Most decent wine grapes that I know of have to be grafted to disease resistant rootstock. Not really sure how you could tell without letting them grow...
Thanks so much for your input guys. I took a sample and its at 1.013. The recipe calls for an og of 1.052 and an fg of 1.014 so i guess its pretty close to finishing. Maybe wait a couple more days then transfer to the fridge?
I haven't checked the gravity yet but I'm pretty sure it's still bubling away although it has slowed a bit since the fermentation started 5 days ago. Your exacly right, the 6 1/2 gallon carboy won't fit in the fridge with an airlock but the 5 gallon will. My main concern was that the 42 degrees...
So i went to my LHBS and picked up the ingredients for a batch of Koelsch without really researching how to make it correctly. Now I have a batch fernenting in a 6 1/2 gallon carboy in my basement which is about 71 degrees. It's been there for 6 days now and everything seems fine with the...
Hello everyone,
I'm an experienced beer drinker but a novice homebrewer. Got some basic equipment this past christmas and have brewed 3 prepackaged extract kits so far and have been very pleased with the results. I wanted to try something a little different so I went to my LHBS and bought...