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Bama i hope it turns out as well as it looks like it will. I have been greedy with some peach and blackberry wines in the past and added water because i wanted more volume! I ended up with a weak diluted flavor...and these were both with fresh super ripe fruit that i picked at farms. When i take...

This is my first ever batch of Strawberry Wine. We have a awesome little strawberry farm here in town. They have the most flavorful strawberries ive ever had and at a good price. I picked right at 106 pounds through my handful of trips to the farm. My goal was to get 10 gallons of finished...

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I would be interested in the recipe too. I screwed up a batch last year using a bad recipe

Im looking for a good, no water watermelon wine. I grow a good many crimson sweet watermelons. They are so sweet its about like eating candy. I hear its a tough wine to make due to watermelons spoiling but ill give it a try

Yooper...back in the summer when i picked then i halved them and pitted them. Put them in a ziplock freezer bag and froze them. When i thawed them i crushed them by pressing with a mallet and my hands. Yes i have them in (2) 5 gallon carboys which are both filled to the 4 gallon mark

To make matters worse my only hydrometer just got knocked off the counter and broke. Actually i only used 17 pounds of sugar. Right now i have (2) 5 gallon carboys with about 4 gallons in each one

Im attempting peach for the first time. I have 50 pounds of peaches. Ive read where half of fruit is a good starting point for sugar so i added 20 pounds of sugar. I used about a 2 quarts roughly of water to dissolve sugar. I did not add anymore water. I just did a hydrometer reading and it is...

Ok i added the last bit of sugar that the recipe calls for. I have taken SG reading before and after each sugar dump ... Here they are. 7/7/13 -Starting day - SG was 1.081 but realized i forgot to add some of the water as noted earlier in thread. - after adding missing water SG was 1.031...

Ok i just strained out the spent blackberry pieces and lees. And squeezed all the juice out. I have a guestion. I have almost exactly 5 gallons of liquid right now. I did a 5 gallon recipe and those that have read the recipe i used see where i add 1 pint of water per gallon 2 more times...

About how much sugar per pound of fruit?

I got a bunch if Silver Queen sweet corn too....if there is a recipe id like to see it/try it

Im going to be starting a batch of peach wine in the next day or so. I picked 38 pounds of Majestic peaches at the local orchard last week. I have a few questions im hoping to get answered. Ive looked at many recipes and im wanting to use all 38 pounds if peaches. I am wanting a strong peach...

This is what i read on eckraus.com this morning

Thanks for the advice. I had read this morning ( not on this forum) where it would kill yeast if added at the same time but maybe they were only referring to wild yeast like mentioned above. Thanks again

I probably just need to toss this batch. Pretty frustrated. I added 5 camden tablets the first day,sunday. And pitched my yeast per instructions on recipe. Got to thinking about it today...will the camden tablets kill my yeast? It is bubbling some and there is definitely co2 being emitted. Just...

Im not really liking this recipe. I will try jack kellers next time. Is it strange that this recipe im using calls for adding water and sugar 3 different times through the process?

I like the simple recipes ... Dont like using a bunch of different stuff in my wines...i dont use any yeast in my muscadine wines, but decided to use Montrachet in this batch of blackberry because i wasnt sure how the natural yeast would be in these berries after being frozen and never making...

No i used this one http://www.familyherbalremedies.com/blackberry_wine_recipe.html

I know its a silly question but i started my first batch of blackberry wine yesterday. Its a 1 gallon recipe so i did 5x for 5 gallon and split it in half to go into 2 different fermenters to start. The recipe was a little hard to follow but basically i forgot to add 5 quarts of water total...