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11549.5+5.5=11555.0 (gone.5) my second try with a different yeast. different taste than wines i've made. age will help bring out the apple flavor, i've read. It has the kick! Finished at 12%.

can you tell me about your experiences with making second wines? I have some frozen raspberries and strawberries, from previous wines, and was just wondering if the wines were worth the effort or not.

11099.5 + 5 = 11104.5 my first try started 1-26-09 and hard cider 5 gal.

To clarify a bit more what I was asking about I consider "sparkling" apple cider to be fizzy like soda pop or champagne. Hard apple cider is like wine. I consider a still brew to be like wine. Many of the wine bottles I have are used wine bottles with screw on caps, these are what I was...

I've made wine before and they always recommend making a yeast starter, adding acid blend, nutrient, tannin, peptic enzyme, campden tablets to kill any wild yeast and boil sugar water to dissolve the sugar, let the campden work for 24 hours, check the sg, start the wine in a pail and stir daily...

I'd like to make the sparkling apple cider. the part that stumps me is the bottle caps, oxygen absorbing? I suppose they will blow if I use empty wine bottles I already have. Or is there another recipe for hard apple cider that would be easy?

I have mtn ash trees in my yard and they produced so well last fall. so i found recipies and came up with my own 10-07-08 5# cleaned berries I mashed berries in bag and it seems bitter 3# sugar-regular store bought 3-46 ounce white grape juice 2 tsp acid blend 1 tsp. peptic enzyme 2 tsp...

i have three empty carboys and 5 full ones right now. in the brew 2-5 gal. batches strawberry, 5 gal. banana, 6 gal. potato, 5 gal. mountain ash. recently bottled and resting, gallons of peach, yum!, raspberry, strawberry, and mountain ash. I need to do something with the cider before it...

I've made 27 various batches so far, (my first batch was in sept. 2006) another 50 recipies at least i would love to make. Apfelwein sounds very interesting. I have 5 gallons of cider waiting for me...would this be good for apfelwein or should I do an apple cider wine? I've been on my own...