Recent content by WD40

Glad you enjoyed the link. I too find myself going from section to section.

Several wine and mead recipes in this online 1887 White House cookbook. Very interesting read. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13923/13923-h/13923-h.htm

After adding the sugar, the bubbling started back but not enough to push up a cap. I will strain off the pulp this afternoon and give it another day.

The wild yeast from the strawberries. I had not planed on adding the sugar till the end of day two by the bubbles stopped today so in went the sugar to see if it will crank back up again. I will post again after the turn in the morning.

I turned it this morning and it is bubbling quite well so the answer is yes.

Strawberries are coming in but at least locally the quality is low because of the hard freeze. I have some that wine making might be the best use. When I make muscadine wine, I let the wild yeast work its magic. Anybody try wild yeast strawberry wine production?

It does really taste bad and I have never tasted anything like it. I have a small sample bottle that I opened a few weeks ago and it did the same thing but I just figured it was just one of those things. You know that movie "Bottle Shock"? I don't think that is going to happen. Thanks for the...

I opened a batch of my Muscadine wine(Recipe in previous thread) last night and it was a beautiful red. This morning it is very dark and taste bad and nothing like wine. This was my forth batch out of 6 and all others have been wonderful. The only thing I can conclude is I didn't add the...

John, I think you are right on the vodka. The vodka stops the fermentation, and keeps the wine sweet and potent. From my internet research, this recipe falls in line with a fortified wine similar to a port. Our colonies made a fortified wine as a common way to use our native grapes. If I...

I have a couple of questions about wine making with wild yeast. 1. Since I add boiling water to my grapes does that mean the wild yeast is coming from the air? 2. I have read that wild yeast dies at around 6% alcohol level. If I use cheese cloth instead of plastic wrap over the fermenting...

Ya, Hard freeze tonight so I have my orange and lemon trees protected best I can.

As compared to outside in September when the muscadines ripen it is cool.

This is my first post so I thought I would introduce myself by posting the wine recipe I have been using for the last couple of years. It is based on a recipe I found on the internet so I am not the originator or the creator of the recipe. I went through several post after a search on...