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I made some cider out of five gallons of apple juice a can of apple juice concentrate and two pounds of brown sugar. I pitched some US-05 ale yeast in a six gallon carboy. Its been two months and about a month ago I took a gravity reading and it was done fermenting, but it will not clear my...

One month ago I racked my peach melomel, it had just turned six months old. I drank the sample i drew from it, it was allready awesome tasting. Tonight I was down checking on a wine I had just started and decided to look at the melomel and see how it was doing, I quickly noticed the airlock had...

I have made a few wines, but this is the first im going to back sweeten. My question is when you guys back sweeten do you usually boil your sugar in a little water and add it your wine. I think it would be a pain in the butt to try to dissolve sugar in wine that is about 60 degrees. Thank in...

Dont post much just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful posts and Merry Christmas to all and all a good night.

I made a cyser six months ago, about three months ago when I last racked it the hydrometer read .0990 and it has completly cleared out. My problem is my airlock keeps poppin I dont know if fermentation is still dragging on or it just needs to be degassed. Is this normal. Thank in advance

Allrighty I transfered from my primary into a secondary today. Well about thirty minutes after I finished I had tried to move my carboy a smidgen when the carbonation from fermentation took off luckily i had my trusty turkeybaster and was able to suck some of the wine and foam out. I then...

I have a huge garden and i figured I would grow some watermellons this year (for making wine of course). I have heard that watermellon wine is pretty thin and weak flavored and I should Mix another fruit in there, I was thinkin of just using some frozen grape juice concentrate. Has anyone here...

Been lurkin around for awhile figure I would start to do some typin myself. Litttle bit about myself I just started making wine and mead and I also brew beer with my buddy right now im fermenting a cyser and the classsic welchs white wine. Cheers and God bless you all.:cross: