Recent content by ksk2175

My wife and I were at a restaurant the other day and they offered a cider called "Bee Hoppy" made locally by Wild Side ... it was the first dry hop cider I had tasted and it finished with a bit of honey ... very good and interesting

I wouldnt have thought the Pasteur Red would be number one on your list .. I just passed it up on my latest batch because I thought it was Montrachet until I turned it over to read the packaging. So instead I pitched a 1/4 Cotes Des Blancs and 3/4 Montrachet that I had left over in lieu of...

Ive just started a new recipe for my next batch of hard apple cider... 10x 2qt Tree Top Fresh Pressed, 3-apple blend (not from concentrate) Juice. 1x can Old Orchard Apple Juice Concentrate 2x RW Knudsen Organic Pear Juice 2lbs light brown sugar 2.5tsp Pectin Enzyme 5tsp Yeast Nutrient...

Hello. This wine making bug has really bit me but I am still quite the beginner. I have a Strawberry wine in process. I am near the bottling stage and made the mistake of back sweetening prior to adding campden and sorbate and you guessed it, I had fermentation start up again. I had used...

I added the campden tablets at last racking when I added the pectin enzyme on Sat. I moved it into a smaller carboy last night and it seems to be clearing. I will let it rest now and give it some time. Thanks for your help!

This is my first fruit wine and one of the mistakes I think I made was pulverizing the fruit too much without the use of a fruit bag. I smashed the fruit in the bucket and added the pectin enzyme, let it sit for 24 hours, then added the water, sugar, yeast nutrient and pitched the yeast. That...

My first attempt at Strawberry wine .... I am wondering if the lack of clearing is due to pectin or something else. Pics attached. I used pectin enzyme as I was extracting juice from fruit the first 24 hours prior to primary fermentation. It has been three weeks since placed in...