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Thanks. I've seen a couple of recipes that call for oranges and lemons in them. What's the purpose of adding these to your wine?

Hi All, I have a recipe for a carrot wine that I want to try and the recipe says to add 6 oranges, juice and rind. Do people normall just shave the orange off of the rind and add that to their wine or do they throw the whole rind into the fermenter? My thought is that the whole rind would sour...

Hi All, this is going to be my first try at cider so I wanted to get peoples opinion on my recipe. I'm planning on adding 5 Campden tablets to 5 Gallons of non pasteurized cider and let that sit for 24 hours. Bring SG to 1.060, pitch ale yeast and add 2.5 tsp pectic enzyme to help clear...