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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 ...

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...

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

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...

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:

so wen making the island mist kits, my main question comes to filling the carboy and how much to leave out. with my last batches of wine, i transferred a lot of liquid to the carboy and left maybe 2" from the top. after sitting for the stage 2, i had to remove a gallon of liquid just to add...

hi all. I'm in Ohio outside of Cleveland near wine country. we are surrounded by wineries. they are good up here if you like sweet wines. I really love the sweet stuff, but I got spoiled when i went to Napa with my wife last year though, and love the nice Cab's from out there. I have 2...

Hello, I've made a bunch of Island Mist kits in the past and stay close to the directions, going 2 weeks between steps. I have a quick question about speeding up steps. We are working with 2 kits at the same time. A Cranberry Malbec and a Blackberry Pinot Noir. At first reading both...