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I used Premier Cuvee yeast for my apfelwein - if I added sugar and/or apple concentrate when the yeast started to slow down, would it stop fermenting when it got to 18% and leave some sweetness? I think I'm wanting to do it 'still' this time - but try sparkling next time. I'm just not into...

Winemaking: Strains of Wine Yeast I'm looking on this page, and don't see D-47 yeast - what brand is it?

28 pounds of sugar in 5 gallons???? Sounds like syrup to me, LOL!

I put together my first gallon this afternoon - 1 gallon juice, 1 cup sugar, premier cuvee yeast - it's already bubbling away just after a couple hours!

9430 + 1 = 9431 my first gallon - I chickened out to fill my 6 gallon carboy, LOL.

that's what I was looking for! thanks! so, a sherry yeast would be for higher sugar/higher % alcohol..... might be interesting to try some of those recipes for the fun of it. Glad I have several 1 gallon bottles now!

That's all I needed to know!

if you backsweeten the 5 gallons with a can of concentrate w/o killing the yeast - will it make bottle bombs?

Is there anywhere that has a list of different yeasts and when/why to use which kind? I was reading a wine recipe book, and several recipe's have said to use a sherry wine yeast - I was wondering why a sherry wine yeast in some cases?

I've gotten a carboy, stopper and airlock, various wine additives including yeast, a wine thief, and loads of encouragement from my local wine store. They don't have anything that is beer related from what I've seen though - I would like to try some malt extract for some ''hard lemonade'' type...

have you made wine with baker's yeast before? I thought I read somewhere that it wouldn't work?

my local wine shop didn't have any larger one's...... I'll have a look at the HW store while I'm getting a tube for racking and see if they have a bung the right size.

I found a tea recipe in a book I got with a bunch of other wine supplies from freecycle - I mixed it up and it's bubbling away this morning :)

thanks, I'll be headed to the HW store today - will have to think of how to keep it off the bottom of the bucket so I don't suck up the sediment too.........

what do you use for air locks? The regular plugs on the airlocks that I have for carboys are too small for the neck of the water bottles......

ahh, that's why! I just did a site search for 'tea'. will try 'hard tea'.....

OK, I just did a google search and found a thread where they talked about making hard tea on this site - but didn't find anything on tea when I used this website's search feature - wonder why? I'm gonna try a gallon of it and see anyhow.......

Is it possible to make a hard tea fermented like wine? I did a search, and came up with no talk on doing this. Iced tea is my favorite non-alcoholic drink to have at home - we go through nearly a gallon of a slightly sweet iced tea a day here (my teen son also drinks lots of it). I'd love a...

the wine store was out of the tubing/cane for racking wine into the carboy - can I just pour with a funnel if I'm careful, or will that cause problems? This is my first batch....... I'm also contemplating about the size of the batch - it's only about 2 gallons, so I'd have to put it in two...

am looking at the DIY section and came across this - I'm assuming this is used for bottling beer? Or just easy dispensing?