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I had a bunch of wine making stuff in a storage unit for over a year and as I was clearing it out I realized the outside of the plastic fermenting buckets seems to be mold or somthing... should I just clean them up with some bleach or other cleaner? Or toss them and buy new ones ?

i've heard stories from my mother about Dandelion Wine that her dad used to make as a kid. i would like to try and duplicate it. She mentioned dandelion's, raisins, sugar, etc.. i found the following and wanted to get feedback from others to see what they have done... thoughts ...

Irish Red - All-Grain Recipe Kit If I win it'll be my first attempt at home brew. I've always been a wine person. But enough for my wife. Something for me !

Aged for 4 months.. maybe I'll go back an remeasure it..

Transfered into gallon jugs still trying to figure out what I want to do next. Starting Grav: 1.07 (12/21/14) Ending: 0.96 (4/10/15) by my calculations I'm currently at 14.95% so it's all sitting in 3 1gal jugs. drinking it straight it is like a hard apple juice. i'm...

3lbs and I've done 4.5lbs . The base i figured is around 7%. So we're looking at 10-11.5% final abv.

Ohhh cant wait.... Apfelwein - Fermenting - Day 4: http://youtu.be/KDEQmWLbyXc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilju Kilju (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkilju]), in English also known as sugar wine, is a Finnish home-made alcoholic beverage made from sugar, yeast, and water. Its alcohol content is usually 15–17% ABV.[1] Kilju is considered to be a low-quality...

i've been posting more and more now.. took a while for this post to get up. but I like this place. opened up my eyes to some new stuff i'm going to try this year

nevemind about it.. i looked at it 3 hrs later and it's bubbling very nice.

It has a tip on it just for filling the bottles. Real easy to use and just go bottle to bottle. Ill have to look into the bottling bucket though.. thx

Just wine in the past. Here was tonight..

Started it tonight. Only concern is that after adding the yeast i added more juice,the yeast all went to the bottom of the carboy.. Should i be concerned ?

if i don't have a bottling bucket, could i just rack and fill the bottles like i normally do with my bottle filler hose ?? or will this new corn sugar mess up the flow and a bottle bucket easier ?

my wife and friends love them cause they go down like koolaide and then hits you hard

so i usually just boil water and toss in 3 to 4.5 lbs of sugar and heat it up and stir it around till the sugar dissolves into the water. then i'll add it to my primary fermenting bucket with the rest of step 1 from the Island Mist kit and then off to the races. am I doing the sugar right ...

so after reading some of the other messages on here, i think i might dive into making the Apfelwein, just a 3 gallon trial. 1) should I carbonate it when I bottle? 1a) if yes, how do I? i've never done that before 1b) if yes, screw top bottles, growlers, or what for bottling ? 2) is...

i was thinking about doing it in a smaller 3 gallon carboy. same steps ? how much space to leave at the top ?

i'm going to get a temperature guage and test the various rooms of the basement to see what it's at. i cover them with a hoodie however, with my previous post, i have a lot of c02 left over between stages and end up removing a lot of wine just to mix it around..

anyone ever use them? i'm thinking of getting 2 for my friends basement where the wine making magic happens. it's a little colder durning the winter months.. thoughts ? :drunk: