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Wine kit??? I'm new and even I know that you buy some straight up grape juice, add sugar till your hydrometer says "desert wine" add a wine yeast and let it go! Shouldn't be too hard to make a wine and let it sit.....

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Yea I gave some ciders to some of my "friends" at work and told them to be hush hush about it. Well word got out and this one guy that I don't really get along with was like "eh man, when ya gonna bring ME some of that beer you brewin?" I was like dude in out at the moment gotta get some more...

It's my impression that you should add sugar ( or concentrate ) to taste, then a touch more and let it go at that. As an experiment, I used what I had drawn out of my apple cider for a hydrometer test plus a touch more, added a tsp. of brown sugar and let it go in a coke bottle on my counter...

Unfortunately they are all plastic bottles......thats why there are no pics..... Too embarrassed...... Once I pour my first one, I'll post a pic of that!

Bottled the little guy tonight....... Here's hoping!

I will still respect my cabing bottles and gingerly stove top pasteurize them, along with the pop bottle gauge and this thread, I just feel more comfortable with it.

Plus you wouldn't want to just let the bottles go. Remember he said that it was way too bubbly for him? You want your bottles to have the right am out of carb so they bubble nicely, not geyser onto your ceiling! I do feel much better about bottling now though, at first I was terrified of BB's...

Will I still be able to carb if I put this in the fridge?

Other interests other then brewing? Hmmmmmm..... I'll start in January Jan: rabbit, coyote and raccoon hunting Feb: more coyote hunting, and the Super Bowl of course! Mar: if there is still enough snow, more coyote hunting! Apr: April is when we start getting our bank poles ready for the season...

So your stealing my grape "cider" idea?? Lol! Thought I tasted like melted down grape jelly!?!? No worries, let me know how it turns out. I'm doing blueberry-pomagranite next!

I think I will just call it "drink" and put a pic of a brother on it.;) HA! Love it!!!

The spiked grape juice was exactly what I was looking at. Although my local store has blueberry pomegranate juice that I think I'm going to try next. The pop bottles are regular 20 oz bottles that I have saved the caps from. Just screw on deals. That is unless I can get my hands on some swing...

So racked my small guy last night (it's starting to clear already) and now big blue has stopped bubbling (sigh) no bottles to bottle big blue so he'll have to wait. Small fry is going to be back sweetened this weekend and put I pop bottles. Not very classy, but oh we'll. It's be in the mid 80*...

Ok so here is the small one. Air lock has stopped completely. Little globs of yeast occasionally shoot up from the bottom and then sink again. Wondering if I should rack to a secondary now or just wait. These finished very quick, so I'm going to have to bottle the small one in pop bottles and...

The hydrometer reading was 1.000. Right in the "done" range.

Big blue tasted good, still strong alcohol taste, but good. Cran apple was lighter fluid! Hope that mellows! Lol!

Ok so air lock activity has slowed a great deal. Took reading on both batches: Carmel Apple is at 1.010 which is about 6.3% abv Cran apple is at 1.000 (maybe a little higher) but even if its a little bit higher that puts it in the 7 to 7.5% range. These have been going since Saturday. The...

I would imagine it would impart a slight apple flavor. In that case what's the point? Just make some cider.....