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Ok, we have a question about Yoopers Blackberry wine recipie, which hopefully Yooper herself will answer but...theres alot to do on a website so.... The recipie is for a 1gal. batch. Question 1. Does anyone brew 1 gal. batches of wine? or is this just a base figure for upsizing to your...

Seemed that way to me too, but thought Id ask in case it wasnt as big an issue as I was forseeing. We cant wait to get started, been "reading" and "talking" about it way too long now, we're ready to start. about 2 weeks till we go shopping!

Hey Yooper, I feel like Im stalking your fruit wine conversations but, what do you mean by to "hot" to drink, last recipie I read for blackberry wine said ready to drink by bottling time, only my mulberry recipie said it required long ageing to perfect.

"Racking" seems simple enough a concept: Get the good stuff off the top of the bad stuff before to much bad stuff collects on the bottom and start it all over again. NOT Quite Webster or Wikipedia but... Heres my question. Just starting out we're trying to limit our required startup cost, and...

Hey Yooper thankx for the advice. Fruit wines are primarily what we will be doing our first year or so, so its nice to hear someone else who is into it. "By taste" I understand, whats not pleasant to the tongue and cheek is not right, but, having never done this before, say I come across a taste...

Red Star Pasteur Red has been recommended by a few of you for my blackberry wine. Unfortnatley my supplier only carries Red Star Pasteur Champagne. With this description *For producing white wines, some red wines, and fruit wines. Also restarts stuck fermentations. Despite its name, this...

Ok, so through my research, these are the tests I understand are important in the brewing of wine. My question is, do you do these test? If not all, which ones are most important when brewing "berry wines"? -Measuring 'sugar content' before fermentation, during fermentation and before...

No rinse sanitizer, thankx for the heads up!

Ok, as for the sanitizer, I honestly planned on using powdered dishwasher soap mixed 1 cup soap per 1 gallon super hot water. But Ive never done this before so....where can I get Starsan? Im not sure my local guy has that? My dist. is only 20 min. away. Is that what HBS is? The additives I have...

Thank you for the reply. As for strictly making wine, absolutley not, I plan on using wine as a stepping stone to making just about anything I enjoy consuming from drinks to food products. IMO there is nothing more satisfying than consuming something that you made yourself. As of yet, 3Brothers...

Ok, well the 3Brothers are heading to our local winemakers supplier here in Pittsburgh, Pa to make our very first equipment and supplies purchase in the next few weeks. Our hope is to, at first try, to brew one 6 Gallon batch of Blackberry wine using (2) 96oz. cans of 'Blackberry Fruit Wine...

Hey, Just found this site and cant wait to meet others passionate about making wine. My name is John, and my 2 other brothers are Sean and Aaron. Together we plan on making Blackberry and Mulberry wine year round, for personal consumption, utilizing frozen and fresh berries as well as canned...