Recent content by RedBearded

I'm in!

Love this! I was lucky enough to work with all civilians both of my deployments to Afghaniland (2009 and 2011), and some how they could get cases of whatever we wanted... What "Top" doesn't know won't hurt him.

Thanks for everyone's input on my new wine experience... I just got done racking it again off of the new fruit and it tastes amazing (for being a young wine). Added some stuff (potassium metabisulphite and potassium sorbate) to kill the yeast. It was fermenting after I added the new...

Bottle cap bar top... Almost have enough caps to finish!

I did taste mostly kiwi when I tasted it, but 24 kiwis is a lot (at least to me)... Strawberries are on sale here (Clarksville, TN) at Publix, and they are still good and fresh (coming out of FL). They are 2 lbs for $5.00. That's why I decided to do some strawberry wine. I will have to try...

I read a bunch of stuff on using fruit. Some people liked to keep it submerged, but I also read that the gases put off as it's fermenting keep it from spoiling/molding as it keeps all of the oxygen out... What would it change if I kept it submerged?

I never actually checked the actual weight of the kiwis. At first I was taking off the skin and taking out the core, then the core became to much. So about have of them just had the skin removed. It definitely had more of a kiwi taste though when I tried it. That's why I used all...

"Punch down the cap"? Sorry, I'm new to all of this and don't know what that means...

Thanks for everyone's input! So I ran to the store and got 4 pounds of strawberries (minus about 6 of them I couldn't resist eating) (when I tasted it earlier, I definitely tasted more kiwi than strawberry). I took 4 cups out of the wine and mixed it with the 4 pounds of strawberries and 2...

The recipe (which I modified a little from a Strawberry one I found online) is written per gallon. I made 3 gallon (before adding the "unknown" amount of water) so I tripled everything (minus the yeast of course).

I also just took a look at it in the secondary and it does have airlock activity. It's about the same as it was in the primary, before I racked it.

Here are some pics... Day 0 - fruit in bucket Day 10 - after I racked off of the fruit My chart to keep track of everything.

Hello, I have been following this forum for about a month (and I must say, it is awesome) and I just started my first batch of wine about two weeks ago. I made a strawberry and kiwi wine using fresh fruit and would like to know what I am doing right and wrong. When I racked my wine off of the...