Nwa-brewing
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I have been making my own wine for roughly a year now. Have entered a couple local competitions and even earned a couple rewards. But with anything the more I learn the more questions are raised!
In general my wine making has been super basic, fruit, sugar, water and yeast. 1 week in the primary fermentation bucket, then wrack it over to the carboy, for about a week then rack again and add cambden tablets and potassium metabasulfate. Then rack / sweeten as needed.
I am sure there are better ways etc that is why I am here to learn.
Going to be harvesting crabapples this week and trying a wine with them! But after reading some recipes... A lot of them say wait for 12-24 hours before adding yeast etc, pectic enzyme etc. Never even used pectic enyme before, also have seen that most people add cambden tablets at the start? What does that do for everything, eekhelp lol
In general my wine making has been super basic, fruit, sugar, water and yeast. 1 week in the primary fermentation bucket, then wrack it over to the carboy, for about a week then rack again and add cambden tablets and potassium metabasulfate. Then rack / sweeten as needed.
I am sure there are better ways etc that is why I am here to learn.
Going to be harvesting crabapples this week and trying a wine with them! But after reading some recipes... A lot of them say wait for 12-24 hours before adding yeast etc, pectic enzyme etc. Never even used pectic enyme before, also have seen that most people add cambden tablets at the start? What does that do for everything, eekhelp lol