Recent content by ptRoyal

I am a relatively new brewer. Less than 2 years. But, I tend to never add sorbates and at times have shied away from extra pot metabisulfate. When I made my apple wine the only thing I added was bentonite to clear it. I could read a newspaper through the carboy and the wine was fantastic...

For the record,.... It was the best " white" wine I have EVER had. The batch did not make it to full adult status before being consumed. We could not help ourselves. Everyone that had some was in love! Success!! Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

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Got one! Garden growing nice too.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks. Still have a lot of apples out there, looks like I will have to try another batch and compare side by side. Cost is only sugar and another vile of one of the compounds, maybe $7 total.

New to wine making. Got most of my hardware from Father-in-Law. I have a couple of unfinished works on the go. No real success to report yet. I might say though that the batch we just bottled isn't bad for being young. On a whim, noting a huge amount of crabapples on a few trees and some...

Here we go. 7 weeks ago I started my first wine that is now bottled. After getting that task done, I picked up two more kits and got them going. Racking those to secondary at the end of this week. Outside, two apple trees. Crabapple and some sort of pie apple tree. Pulled about 40...