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Yes. The jarred peppers I added were quite hot. And I had added one slice to a glass of wine before I added any to the carboy, and it made the wine in the glass hot. Not sure what's going on. Maybe I should add another jar and get the extra spicy kind... I wonder if maybe the peppers sank to...

Thanks. I'll taste it again when I rack it off the peppers, which should be soon... whatever day I'm awake enough. My brother in law recommended adding capsaicin alone, since it already tastes like peppers, but I'm a little afraid of handling the powder and having it in the house with small...

I added peppers from a jar to mine a week ago. Added 10 per gallon. It still didn't have any heat a few days later, so I scored a fresh jalapeno and dropped that in. Today, still no heat, but it tastes and smells like jalapenos. Can you think of any reason why there's no burn?

I racked mine today. I had already added the clearing agent a while ago and it's nice and clear now. I thought it needed something to make it taste better since it's quite sour and bland, so I tried some jalapeno and sugar in a cup with it and that was fantastic, so I added jarred jalapenos to...

Thanks for the information. That's great!

Ooh, I was thinking of doing this with a little bit of mine. My brother-in-law loves spicy. Can I add some jalapenos in after it's done fermenting and let it sit with them for a month, then bottle?

I racked lemon-berry yesterday, after several days of no airlock movement. Since it was in a carboy already, I could also see no bubbles at all and a layer on the bottom. It's about 10% abv. Still cloudy, but tastes much better. I can taste both the lemon and the berries. It's very dry and needs...

Thanks for letting me know your experience. Hope mine is better at lower sg as well. If I sweeten, I may use lime syrup. I generally don't like sweet wine, but have a couple of people in my family who do. If they drink this, maybe they'll stay out of my blueberry. I have a question. If I...

Yeah... I think I jumped the gun a bit. My husband wanted his work bench back to cut some wood and not sure how many days until I'd get it back, so if I had to move the wine, then I thought I would rack it now too. I didn't want to leave it a long time with the mushy fruit. How long is it ok to...

Racked the wine off the fruit today. Probably could have left it a couple more days. Still airlock movement, but slowed down. Sg 1.016 (originally 1.074). I tasted it and it doesn't taste very good. I don't taste the lemon at all. I'll try it again next time I rack it, but at the moment I'm...

That's interesting. Thank you.

The lemon has airlock movement. :happydance:

Thanks. I just went down and removed the fruit bag and some of the juice from the lemon-berry to make room in the fermenter. Then transferred the bag of blueberries from the bubbling blueberry wine into the lemon-berry and added some of the fermenting blueberry wine as well. Dumped the leftover...

I put yeast in mine yesterday morning, realized the bucket was too full to put the lid on and then had to scoop out some liquid. The yeast got mixed under the surface when I did this. No yeast smell and no bubbles at all today. A few hours ago, I removed more liquid from the bucket and...

That sounds interesting. I'm interested in hearing about how that works out for you.

It's 5-6 gallons. It's a 5 gallon bucket, but I overfilled it, since fruit will be coming out after a while.

I'm a beginner. I have put my first two kits into wine bags, because it was easy. One was a red wine which I'm sure would be better with age. From what I've now read, the problem with storing wine in bags for aging is that the bags oxidise, which I didn't know when I put the wine into them...

I had some frozen raspberries and the dragon blood/skeeter pee recipe looked really good, so I got a bag of mixed berries and a bottle of lemon juice to go with them. I'm a newbie at this. 2 kg bag blue/black/rasp berry blend approx. 3 - 3.5 lb frozen raspberries 1 bottle lemon juice 2kg sugar...

This is my first non-kit wine, so it'll be a learning experience. If it tastes good, I'll be very happy. If it has alcohol in it and doesn't taste like barf, that's ok too. I can always mix it, or put it on ice cream.

Haha, I'll just wait and see how it turns out. Should be fine.