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Here is how I do it

Here is how I do it

It is actually $50 for a wine producer permit and the bond is $100 in Louisiana. I know because I am getting to apply for one for a small home based winery I am considering doing.

This is my recipe I settled on this year and put 15 gallons. Grapes = Purple Ison Muscadine grapes with a juice SG 1.060 / TA .45 / PH 3.0 straight of the vines Procedure: 1. I crushed 120 lbs of muscadine grapes and adjusted the juice SG up to 1.10. I added kmeta and let sit for 24hrs...

Aug 2012 Red Muscadine straight juice wine Grape = 60 lbs Isons muscadine grape Juice #s = PH 3.3 / TA .412 / SG 1.060 Procedure: 1. Crushed 60lbs of grapes and sulfited. Added enough sugar to must to get SG up to 1.12. Let sit for 24hrs. 2. After 24hrs added Lalvin 71B yeast. Used...

I get all mine from Ison's.

The Pasteur Red will work fine. It will just give a different flavor profile compared to the Montrachet.

With your SG 1.10 you should get 13-14% ETOH. This is not what I would consider rocket feul. That is what I make all my wines to. I say let it roll.

1:2 ratio would be fine.

Both of those recipes come out with a mellow muscadine flavor and when backsweetened a little are very well liked in my part of the woods. I think you will like it.

This year I am doing some experimenting. 1st - I have 3 buckets of overly ripe red muscadines that have a PH of 3.3 and a TA of .45. With this I am going to do a 5gal straight juice batch of wine 2nd - I have 120 lbs of red muscadine that I will mix with a little elderberry concentrate during...

Those 4 vines will give you more grapes than you will know what to do with. This yr I have picked 200lbs of Ison from 2 vines and I have 3 bronze ones I have not even touchehd yet.

I friend of mine has made the pear and elderberry form those and they came out very good. I have another friend, who does commercial wines, uses a Blackberry concentrate and it comes out good too. The thing to remember is that a 64 brix concentrate (this is what they are) should use 1 part...

This one is for a traditional country style muscadine wine that turns out very well. It will need to be back sweetened as it will ferment to dry. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/todds-muscadine-wine-138712/ Here is a video I made from last yrs harvest and my white muscadine. With some age on...

I am just west of you in Vacherie. Here are 2 ways to make some good muscadine wine. This one is for a traditional country style muscadine wine that turns out very well. It will need to be back sweetened as it will ferment to dry. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/todds-muscadine-wine-138712/...