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5 gallons sweet water ryepa lowryder wannabe total 13722.5

5 gallons almost consumed :) 6 gallons 1 month aged 6 gallons made 1 hour ago total 17 gallons GRAND TOTAL 25,543.5

is a commercial wine necessary? i was planning on using grape juice and adding invert syrup to make the gallon or so of juice match the original o.g and continue under the airlock. I did not intend on adding a gallon of sugar syrup just enough to get the top up juice to ferment out dry.

I am doing a first attempt at wine with yard grown muscadines myself; seems to me a mason jar fits it just about right. going to use quart jars for mine.

Our muscidine wine is ready to transfer to a carboy as gravity has dropped from 1.110 to 1.010 in five days. I am toying with the idea of putting the grain bag full of skins and bits in my mash tun and pressing the heck out of it to get the most yield. The only available carboy is 6 gallons...

oh, towel secured with twine and sprayed with Starsan in lieu of an airlock. I planned on putting under an airlock after it hit 1.030 or so.

OK that's pretty good news, Thanks! have been stirring once daily but will stir twice going forward. i appreciate the advice.

A full 24 hours after pitching and the first gravity reading is 1.100 from 1.110. seems like a really weak start and i'm not seeing any krausen either. doesn't smell off or anything. 2 packs Montrechet plus nutrients i believed would ferment much more vigorously.

Pitched yeast 24 hours after Camden addition. og 1.110 this stuff smells awesome! 6 tsp nutrient 2 tsp energizer

Good news on not flying solo, I'll follow your thread since you are a few days ahead of me in the process. I just squished my grapes today.

First stage complete! 22 lbs of grapes squished 1 gallon of white grape juice added to compensate for the last few pounds of grapes we couldn't reach. 6 tsp pectic enzyme (thanks Arpolis) 2qt H2O 6 Camden tabs, crushed (anyone who has never used this stuff before make sure not to have your head...

Here goes something, My dad has lots of muscadines growing in his yard and we are looking to make 6 gallons of wine from them. here is the recipe i will be using 1. five gallons of grapes, squished without removing skins. 2. 5 pounds table sugar boiled into a simple syrup. will adjust to get...

add 4 gallons rye pale ale and 5 gallons summer wheat ale 20185