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I would try the brown sugar and spices. I also made a pumpkin wine in october, similar to your recipe. Mine didn't turn out well either, very yeasty and tasted very bland. I was gonna let mine age a bit, i find a lot of the fruit wines get better with age.

I don't think i'd do that. I would let it ferment out. sample it for sweetness and then cut it with some water if its still to sweet(which it likely will be). 5 liters maybe too much, maybe do half that...all depends on how sweet it is. or maybe do half water, half grape juice. Either way, if...

That seems odd that you only have a OG so low. That's a crap load of sugar!

This is quite an interesting idea. The tricky part of all this is getting the proportions right between the sugar and licorice. I know from making root beer, depending on the amounts of ingredients you add you can get hugely different tastes. I think I would mix some vanilla beans with...

wow, that's some crazy overflow going on. lol especially with the amount of head space you left. i've never had that issue, might be the yeast, never used ec1118 for the version i had made. you'll probably have to back sweeten from what i remember, as mine turned out dry and kinda funky. back...

yeah, that's completely normal looking. as it ferments out the dark red will go to a light red color as well.