Recent content by jscerri

Just bottled my first batch and piece of advice! Do not squeeze your orange and lemon during the beginning! Put in whole! I have a slight pithy taste that needed extra sugar to hide! Other than that this is amazing recipe! Put in 20 tea bags during second fermentation for extra flavor and it...

Just put mine in to secondary but added another 24 tea bags to raise the tea taste, any thoughts on how long to leave them in !

And brewgyver youshould have read the whole post! My problem was I had already finished the wine but when at bottling stage discover co2

The wine cleared in 24 hours and co2 disappeared ! Turned out amazing!

Actuall finish gravity was 1.016. Should have been around 1.02 as when you add the fruit pack it raises the sugar content much like back sweeting! And as far as the instructions for these kits! Throw them in the garbage, they are useless and written my monkeys!

Og was 1.05 and fg 1.008

I've refrigerated my hole Carboy to stop fermentation as ag was dropping due to active fermentation! This was causing continued co2 growth!

Thanks guys! I have been whipping it but seem to be getting no where! I fear that I may be introducing oxygen while whopping it though!

Should be bottling the niagra mist kit bit has so much co2 in it! I've attempted to de gas over tue last 3 days but am worried I am going to lose the batch! I've filtered it because it was really cloudy but still loads of co2! Any suggestions!

Well the fermentation ended up 2 days sooner then expected and secondary ended 3 days sooner then expected but man! After waiting 24 hours for it to settle in my keg it is amazing! Want to do a brew next that doesn't come from a box! Any suggestions!

Ok thx so much

My wildberry Shiraz island mist is suppose to be in the Carboy for another week but I just pit some Ina wine glass and it was clear! This is my first wine so is it done or should I wait a week! This kit requires no bottle aging so If it's done then I will bottle! Thx all for your help!

I'm using a bucket, was going to use a 6.5 gallon Carboy with rubber hose but was advised not to, so used one of my wine buckets! I had this problem with my last pilsner and the supply store had me add more yeast! Can't wait to keg this one! Thx for your help

Just started my second festa brew red ale kit ! I am new to this and really enjoy the thought of learning from you all how to eventually make my own wort and brew not from a kit! But for now I now getting use to everything is best! Here is my question, I added my yeast yesterday after re...