Recent content by bjk24100

I have a true brew set up to make beer and wine in. My bucket lid has a crack in the side of it. I bought a new one but it is too small. I have a 6 or 6.5 gallon bucket. Every other bucket lid for that size is to small from what I have seen. Should I just try and fix this lid or is there...

yes it did start out blue when i started out.

I bottled it today and usually when i bottle i take a sip or two here and there. It is pretty sweat

So this was my first batch of blueberry wine. I was able to fine a blueberry juice from a local store. I let it ferment and when I bottled it the wine had turned as red as an apple. Is that normal? I had never had a wine change that much color before. Ben

I put in my yeast in wine on the night of 9/9/2011. It is now roughly 6 days later and it is still bubbling up pretty well. I have read that it usually takes about a week for primary fermentation. It has slowed down some but not nearly as much as previous batches. It this a good thing or a bad...

I have a packet of beer yeast and I was wondering if I could use it to make wine. I used bakers yeast last time and I could tell it had a lower alcohol content. Would beer yeast give me the same alcohol content as a typical wine yeast or champagne yeast??