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In my area there are a number of vineyards that sell wine making grapes by the pound. I've got quite a large selection to chose from, various reds and whites like merlot and riesling. Even better, at least one of them have equipment available to crush and press the grapes. I'm having a bit...

Hey everyone! I've got wine questions once again. I've got a couple gallon bags of frozen pears, they were super ripe when they were frozen,and another gallon worth of frozen strawberries. Not sure what the weights are off hand, probably about 5 pounds of each. I was just going to make a...

Hey everyone! It's been ages since I was on the forum, but I'm back now! I've been making lots of tasty wines and beers since I was last on, and playing around with fruit wines. Have some really nice blueberry wine and a strawberry melomel that will be bottled very soon. I have some...

Buddy of mine gave me a bunch of maple syrup and homebrewing equipment, on the condition I make maple wine and give him the lion's share. :ban: Not a deal I could pass up! Anyways, I have 2 gallons of syrup he processed himself that needs to be kept pure, and another 7 quarts of good...

Sorry if this has come up, I didn't quite find what I was looking for in a search. I am going to make 2 batches of SP this week, but I want different flavors. I'm thinking a cherry lime, and a blackberry lemon. For the cherry lime, I have key lime juice I plan to substitute for 1/3...

Tomorrow is the big bottling day for me, and I plan to use sealing wax. Just had a quick and dumb question before I do it- If I soak the corks, either by heating them up in a pan or dipping them in starsan or whatever... is it a bad idea to use sealing wax right after bottling or does it...

Getting ready to bottle my first batches, just a few questions. I intend to stabilize my meads. They were stuck in the fridge a couple days ago, for whatever good that will do. Saturday is the bottling day. Just 4 months old, sucks but I'm moving and I think this is best. I plan...

I'm moving cross country, I'd like to take the 4 gallons of mead I've been working on along with me. They were started late December early January, single gallon jugs. My raspberry melomel and cyser are very clear, the other two not so much. I plan to put the jugs on the floorboards...

Made 4 single gallon batches of various meads for my first go at homebrewing, and all but my Bochet managed to ferment out nicely. Unfortunately, I made these before I learned my lesson in regards to taking OG readings, but I just checked the gravity and it is a whopping 1.08 give or take...

Sorry for the silly random post, but I just switched to Star San and HOLY CRAP I LOVE THIS STUFF!!! :rockin:

Started an experiment of sorts, mixing different amounts of sugar and splenda to create diet ginger soda, based off of Yooper's recipe Pretty much the exact recipe, minus the addition of splenda and I used limes instead of lemons for the juice. Just happened to have them on hand. I want to...

Just racked my clementine cyser to secondary and remembered to take a gravity reading. Unfortunately, I did not get an OG reading so all I can really do here is guess. My gravity reading today is 0.994. I plugged my ingredients into the gotmead.com calculator, it is telling me that my...

Edit- I am sorry, I need to check my notes before posting! This is using Lalvin 71B-1122, not the KV-1116. My apologies! I was wondering if there is a good rule of thumb with 71B concerning when to rack it. I am making raspberry melomel with this, and racked it the first time after...

I am planning on starting a long term aging project next month to please my sweetheart. We are unable to get his favorite mead, Dansk Mjod's Viking's Blod in Texas, so would like to attempt a clone. Here is what a review of the stuff has to say- "This artisan metheglin-style Danish...

Getting everything sanitized to rack my Raspberry Melomel for the first time. First racking, I've been practicing with my auto siphon in the sink. There is a good bit of sediment at the bottom, and I expect that I am going to lose a fair amount of volume. Recipe- 3.5 Lbs Clover Honey...

I've been reading the leap year thread that started 2008, and am a bit envious of everyone who will be enjoying the reward of 4 years of patience and very much want to do this myself. I didn't see any threads started about this leap year, and I am sorry if this is a re-post. Last Leap...

Bored at work, thinking about the gallon of organic apple juice and 3 pounds of clover honey sitting in my cupboard at home. I also have a packet of red star (I think) champagne yeast. Thoughts? I have been searching the threads and have an idea of what I am doing but could use a bit more...

I am getting ready to make a gallon of garlic wine tomorrow following Jack Keller's recipe- winemaking: Garlic Wine I had planned on doing this in a 1 gallon glass jug, but after looking at the directions I don't know that a glass jug is going to work well. The recipe has you fill a nylon...

Just when I thought I was done making mead for awhile, HWIA (He Who is Awesome) asks me to make several batches of mead for co-contributors of an RPG pencil and paper game (nerd alert!) they've recently completed to raise funds for a charity that provides games and toys to hospitalized children...

Hello there! I'm just getting into homebrewing, to date have my first 2 gallons of mead bubbling away at their airlocks and am putting up a third tomorrow. Maybe some of that Apfelwein next. I'm also new to Austin, I don't even have any drinking buddies here yet. Aside from a few...