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You could keep in very basic: 2lbs of honey Enough no preservative grape juice to make a gallon A packet of the yeast of your choice (prepared to directions) You could use white grape juice and lighter honey for a white wine-like pyment or dark honey plus darker grape juice for more red...

Well my gravity was stalled at 1.042 over a week ago, but I figure it's definitely gone down by a fair bit. It has that strong mouthwash smell of alcohol. It's had 11.5 days to go down to 1.005 or less. Besides, I accidentally got a little extra sediment than I'd wanted and I'm sure any extra...

Okay, so it's been three weeks. Still a little airlock activity but it's settled down after the surge of activity. Time to rack it off the pears, raisins and so on into secondary? Or should I wait longer.

Let me tell you something, brothers: yeast-a-mania is running wild through my melomel! I think it was a lack of nutrients in there. There's a good amount of activity now.

Thank you for the assistance. I added another handful of raisins and swirled it up pretty hard. I also have it sitting by the radiator, probably the warmest place in my apartment. Good to know it's fermented at least a bit.

Okay so, I took a gravity reading at work today. It's coming up at 1.042 and it still tasted sweet but no weird or off flavours. Is there any way to take an educated guess as to what my original gravity was based off of my ingredients? That way I can tell if any fermentation has occurred at all.

Do I add more nutrients at this point? I know it may not indicate anything but the smell through the airlock is bready, raisiny and with a bit of a baked pear. No sulphur so far as I can detect.

Hello, I started my first batch of pear melomel on October 21st. So it's been 10-11 days and we still have activity. I know I need a hydrometer to be absolutely safe. I'm planning on taking a sample into work to use our store's tester. We're mainly vino there, but we do sell small amounts of...

So I suppose I need some of those brown bottles with the pry off style?

Hello, I just wanted to double check a specific question about reusing old bottles. I know you can use them provided you clean and sanitize them properly. However, the wine cooler bottles that I have kicking around had twist-off crown caps. Is it possible to use a capping device to place...