Recent content by LJPhillips

I'm mostly a newbie... Made a couple of kits and some fruit wine. Kits call for degassing, so I do, but I've tried degassing other wines and they're just as gassy. For example, apfelwein made 5/24 which is supposedly old enough to bottle. Do you degas everything? If so, when? Why is this not...

Newbie here... I just made 5 gallons of this. Super simple! 23103.5 + 5 = 23108.5 Y'all just bottle this and serve it chilled? It's a little lower octane than most wine.

Made a few batches of wine 20+ years ago and recently decide to start again. I have a few 1-gallon fruit wines in the works, a 3-gallon elderberry batch from fruit base, and a white kit wine in the primary fermenter. Because I live in S Florida, I don't have a cool basement. But I did find a...