How early/soon do you all normally bottle your wine into wine bottles? I have blackberry wine that's pretty much done and already been racked a few times.
When I first started the batch I forgot to get the gravity reading prior to pitching the EC-1118 yeast which has a alcohol tolerance level of 18% which goes against my favor lol. first thing is first I added 3 cups of sugar and probably a pound of blackberries to my must on day 1. It had a very...
I started making blackberry wine little over a 6 days ago and did exactly what youtube videos did, so after about 5 days I racked it to secondary. When I took the alcohol mesurment It showed about 1.003 or 1.002 I can't remember but it was right before the finishing point. I went ahead and took...
I'm making a blackberry wine and forgot to add peptic enzymes to my 1 gallon batch. I don't have any on hand so I was just gonna make it without it. Would it be ok without it? It's my first attempt at making wine.
Gonna be making a red grape wine for the first time. I've made multiple meads but never traditional wine. Is there any benifits taste wise when it comes to brown sugar or is it pretty much all the same. Looking to make a sweet wine.
Thank you all for the info. I went ahead and dumped it all back into a one gallon carboy. I was so use to doing the two week in carboy and two weeks in bottle method from the last 3 batches that I was foolish to not read where it said to wait 6 weeks to make. I forgot that high abv beers take...
I made a high gravity beer 15 days ago and the OG was 1.081. I forgot to check the FG prior to adding priming sugar for botting. So instead I went ahead and checked it even though I added 1 ounce of priming sugar. The FG equalled to 1.040. I know it should be lower and after looking up what...
After racking it 4 times about half a month ago I finally bottled my blackberry mead. The taste was wonderful even at just 2 months. I was able to make 3 almost 4 full wine bottles worth. Now is there anything I need tk do to condition them? I know in the next few days I need to lay them on...