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So it will just be strong then. That's fine. Thanks for the quick reply. :) I've heard that people say home made fruit wine can be too sweet, so I thought maybe the yeast would stop when the alcohol got too high and then there would be sugar left. I guess if that happened, I could just water...

I put the blueberry in the fermenter yesterday. Added all the blueberries, which was about 19lbs. I was rushed and tired and put in too much sugar. 13.2lbs of sugar. Filled up past 6 gallons mark with water, since there's a lot of pulp in there. The sg reading today, before yeast is 1.12. I...

I am also learning a lot in a short period of time. Useful things. Tonight I got a bottle of wine from the store. I'd never tried it before, but it was on display and looked interesting. It tastes awful. At least, I think so. Worse than my kit that's still in secondary. It's flat and tasteless...

Thank you. This is helpful. I didn't know that nutrient affected body. Thank you for the yeast recommendation as well.

That's interesting. Maybe I will try more simple with 15lbs berries and when that's done, I can use the rest of the berries with some grape juice and raisins and see what difference it makes. Have it both ways.

Thank you for your suggestions. I saw the EC Kraus recipe earlier, but I wanted to try with the raisins and grape juice added. I'm looking for something a bit more interesting than just blueberries and sugar. If I wanted to just follow directions and not experiment, then I'd get another kit...

Thanks for posting this. My best friend has a deadly fish allergy and now I will not worry about giving her some of my kit wine.

I’m a beginner, in the process of completing two wine kits. Other than that, I haven’t made wine before. I have somewhere in the ballpark of 20lbs of frozen blueberries in the freezer and want to try making wine out of them. A local winery made a blueberry wine that was my favorite, but they...

Thanks. I thought I'd mostly stick to the kit for the first couple of times to make sure I've got the process right. I may try tasting the mango tonight, to see what it's like. It smells good. The red kit I started 3 1/2 weeks ago already tastes pretty good. There's something missing, but I'm...

Yes, I might have also added a little too much water as well. I'm going to let it go. It's fermenting well already, and the people I'm making it for don't care about the ABV. From online calculators, it looks like I'll only lose about 1% anyway.

:) Heavy for it's size, though. I forgot about the hydrometer, drank some of the wine left in the sample tube, and got hit in the teeth with the hydrometer. I won't do that again.

It was probably about 1/4 cup, from the juice bag meant for a 5 gallon batch. Thank you for putting my mind at ease about leaving it alone. Mango nectar is an interesting idea, though. It's also on sale at the grocery store this week. I'll think about it.

Thanks for the reply. Yeast is lalvin ec 1118. This kit has a separate sweetener liquid that is supposed to be added later.

This is my second time making wine, and I used a kit. When we opened the juice bag, some of it spilled. Now the gravity measurement is slightly under. It's 1.046 and the range is supposed to be 1.048-1.060. I added yeast and then thought maybe a little bit of table sugar would be good to bring...

Thanks. I know it took me a long time to post again. I had to make space and find time. I decided to try wine first since it seems a little easier than beer and I had to buy a new kit anyway. I put it in the primary fermenter today. Edited because I figured out my issues since posting. I was...

Thanks for your reply. This is actually what I wanted to hear. It's not negative input if it prevents infection. That sounds positive to me. I didn't know that slow yeast might result in infection. I also didn't know that infection can stay in equipment, so thanks for the info. The only reason...

So... The yeast in the kit expired 3 years ago. I'm guessing the liquid bag is probably expired as well, even though I can't find any other best before dates on anything. That's what I get for buying second hand, I guess. Equipment looks fine. Should I get new yeast and hops and risk using the...

Thanks for the reply. The website says the kit is supposed to be a copper cream ale. 2 row pilsen malt and crystal. I think it's preboiled, so it's just an add yeast and dry hops kit. I haven't seen it in person yet. My husband picked it up today and is stuck in traffic. I'll do some...

I am getting some secondhand brewing equipment today (glass carboy and it looks spotless) and it comes with a barons redwood kit. I've never made beer before, but I've been reading a little bit about it. Looks like this kit comes with warrior hops for dry hopping. I like grapefruit taste in...