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Bought a New 10 gal oak barrel and was wondering how long to age my red and blackberry wines. Was thinking 3 mo. and then rack in another wine. Any suggestions?

Next week will be making about 80 gal of blackberry wine. I in the past have used Jack Keller's recipe for a medium body wine. However this year in N.C. it was been a very wet spring and was wondering if I should make a full body wine. It should be noted that the Farmer that I make some of...

Keeping red wine at room temperature

Making Jack Keller's Choc./Cherry Mead and instead of making 1 gal making two. Was wondering if I should add two packs of yeast instead of just the one....The yeast is Lalvin 71B-11122 and have found itis rather slow to react..

Ok..yesterday made 5 gal of Melrlot and 5 gal ot Vino Rosso from Alexander Sun Country concentrate and plan to mix it with a blackberry medium body wine. The kit has a 3 cc syringe and my reading was .10 (amount of reagent used) when the color changed to gray (took it twice) for the Merlot...

I have made about 15 gal Apfelwein so far and was wondering if anyone has mixed Gerurztraminer with it. Was thinking agout buying two cans of Alexandar Sun Country Gerwurztraminer and mixing five gal of each...Thanks for any feedback...

Ok..for the past 4 years I have gone in with a local Blackberry Farmer and I make about 80 gal of blackberry wine and Mr. Farmer gets half. For the past four years he as asked me to make it "sweeter" Last year I back-sweeten it to 1015 and he said it was better but could I make it sweeter...

Got tired of throwing out my back so I had a welder make this. He is out of King N.C. and said depending on spec. he could make them for around 300.00. His name is David Mabe and his number is 336 983 9890.

I am making 5 gal of Alexander Sun Country Merlot, which I will mix with 5 gal of a full body blackberry latter this spring. My question is that the directions call for between 0 to 10 tsp of acid blend. I do not have a test kit and was wondering how much to use. Was thinking of 5 tsp...

Would like some feed back. Has anyone had any experience with Calif. Connoisseur Wine Kits??? Thanks for in help that might be offered.

Thinking about making 5 gal of Blackberry Port next year. Was wondering if I can just use the synthetic corks I use to bottle my wine? Plan to age the Port for a couple of years.

Just bought a kit and made one gal of Cherry Brandy. The kit was 30.00 and thought after making it that I could do it a lot cheaper. Have access to lots of blackberries and this one recipe calls for taking a crock and putting a layer of berries then layer of sugar and keep doing this until get...

Here is a picture of my wine cellar. My wife and I just processed 292 lbs of Blackberries. I mixed 4 cans of Barbera and some American Oak powder to make 20 gals. The rest is a Medium Body Blackberry. Might mix some Melot with some more..Having problems posting pic...But can see my cellar in...

Last year I made 70 gals of blackberry wine and it took forever to to rack it, backweeten etc. So this year I bought a wine pump. I plan to rack the wine from the carboys into two 30 gal trash can clean the carboys and re-rack back into them. My question is do I have to worry about headspace as...

Last year I made 70 gals of blackberry wine and it took forever to to rack it, backweeten etc. So this year I bought a wine pump. I plan to rack the wine from the carboys into two 30 gal trash can clean the carboys and re-rack back into them. My question is do I have to worry about headspace...

Last year I made around 70 gal of blackberry wine and this year will do about the same. It took me forever to rack, backsweeten etc so I bought a wine pump. I plan to pump it all into two 30 gal trash cans, clean out the carboys and re rack back into the carboys. My questions is do I have to...

I am going to use powered oak on my blackberry wine this year. So in regards to flavor, what is the difference in powered French Oak vs. American powered oak? Thanks..

I have bought 4 cans of Alexander's Sun Country Barbera (46 oz cans). Last year I took the same amount and made 10 gal of Barbera and mixed it with 15 gals of Blackberry fruit. My question is has anybody, just poured the contents of the concentrate into about 10 gal of blackberry wine and let...

I plan to bulk age some blackberry wine. Have read on several post that when one does this you add 1/4 tsp of k-melta every three months. My question is since the wine is very clear do I need to rack every three months or can I just put the sulphite to the 5 gal carboys?