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Any cheap plastic bottle of 750 ml with reusable caps I can buy for my wine? The bottles will be less heavy, kind of unbreakable and will be even cheaper with reusable caps. I'm in Canada, anything I find on the internet is not cheap but maybe I'm missing something. Is anyone using reusable...

Let me know how it turns out and the exact amount of sugar. Looks very simple as a recipe and it just happens I like simple recipe :)

Thanks for the link! I will try it for sure, it's a small batch, won't cost too much. And he use napkins as a cover, just what I was wondering about, how to do small batch without using a 5 gallons with an airlock.

Interesting suggestions all! Adding chopped raisins, Aronia juice or going wth Welch's Concord should definitely helps the drinkability. Maybe I should do more testing. But I would hate to do another 5 gallons, I need to find a way to make a small batch instead. I'm using Welch's 100% grape...

The problem of the bad taste of my wine has been found! It's all good now with my new plastic bucket. The old ones we're too much used and was leaving a bad taste. Looks like >5 years for a plastic bucket is too much. I've written the date of the day I bought the new buckets with a permanent...

To conclude that story, it all went down the drain again! The amount of sugar, the OG, the fermentation, it was all perfect. It just didn't taste wine at all. Of course I knew it would be different but not that much different. It had a slight taste of grape with a lot of water and a strong...

Here's some more information on that batch! So I was most certainly at an OG 1.147 and not 1.047. Here's the date and the gravity it gave me: 2017-01-13 - 1.100 2017-01-15 - 1.094 2017-01-21 - 1.072 2017-01-29 - 1.056 So it's at 12.4% alcohol. Even though there was too much sugar...

My thoughts exactly! It's quite impossible to be so low with so much sugar. It's been fermenting quite well, lots of bubble. I just checked the gravity, it gave me 1.100! That's quite better. I wonder if I checked wrong and it said 1.147 and I read it as 1.047. I should have taken a reading...

Hi all! I'm doing a new test, a 5 gallon bucket of red wine with the main ingredient being Welch's frozen grape juice. This should be interesting! But the problem is that my OG is 1.047, this will probably give me a 7% wine. But there should be enough sugar in it, I don't understand the...

Hi, just to let you know I'm still working on this problem. I made a batch recently that was quite good. I degassed it a lot and there was oak in it. Unfortunately, this batch wasn't for me so I can't enjoy it lol For the next batch, I will buy new plastic bucket, mine are like 5-10 years old...

@Mismost: ok, so one thing I can try is just to wait. This is quite easy to test, I'll just need to wait and taste my wine after overtime and see if it improves. @gregbathurst: another thing to try is to degass it. Honestly I'm not swirling it a lot during fermentation but when I drink my wine...

Interesting but this is just regular red wine. There has to be an easy trick to do it faster than just waiting 6 months!

Mellow out in the bottle with the caps? Yes, some for months, taste doesn't change much. I was thinking that my problem was quite well known and there was an easy fix. Like a special ingredient to add during the fermentation. I was just thinking that for my next batch, I could reduce the...

This is something I've already tried, leaving the oak chips out of it. I've stopped putting them a few months ago. It do helps but just a bit. I'd like it to be even less astringent. Sweetening could be interesting to try, how do you do it?

Hi, Been making homemade wine with a regular starter kit for quite some years: http://www.costco.ca/Argentia-Ridge-Ch%C3%A2teau-Private-Selection-Cabernet-Sauvignon-Wine-Kit.product.100214690.html It's an ok wine but recently I've tasted another wine from the market and it doesn't make me...

Hi, been doing wine for a few years now, never had problem, but now my glass carboy that I use for secondary fermentation starts to have little crack in it and I find them extremely difficult to clean. Anyone makes wine in only buckets? I don't bulk age my wine, I let it ferment for only 28...

Hi, just what is your OG and FG with a Coopers kit? I tried about 8 of these kits and they all give me the same readings so I was wondering if it's normal and if anyone else achieve a higher alcohol percentage than me. I use 1kg of dextrose, 250g of LME and it gives me 1.040 of OG and 1.010...

Hi, I've been brewing with Cooper's kit with some additional malt, either in powder or liquid syrup, and I've been wondering what does the additional malt that I add (which does not come with the Cooper's can) does exactly? Do I really need it? I was thinking that this additional malt makes...