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Fairly new to winemakkng. I have made some Chardenay from kits that was really good. That’s the extent of my experience with wine making. Started a blueberry wine and once I pitched and the yeast got to work, there is a sulphur smell coming from the bucket. Recipe obtained online from...

My story is that my closest LHBS is 3 1/2 hours away, so I tend to purchase bulk quantities of ingredients so I don’t need to wait to travel near a LHBS or wait a week or more for online orders to ship and arrive. So, I find myself with extra ingredients and trying to make them fit a recipe...

Decided to try and make a cider and it seems to be taking forever. I am shooting for a dry carbonated cider with a target of 8% abv. Start date: 1/17/22 Juice: 4.5 gals, generic, 1.050 FAJC: (4) 12 oz cans, 24 oz total sugar Wyeast wine nute blend: 1/2 tsp. (1) pack Nottingham sprinkled in...

I have a Colonna capper/corker and when I cap my standard beer bottles, it leaves 2 ridges proud, like they slide into the slots of the capper bell. I then need to rotate the bottle a bit and make one more pass, and it pushes the 2 high ridges down and it looks better. Has anyone else had a...

I am going to attempt another mead soon and was wondering if anyone has experience mixing different varieties of honey and how that might work out. My first attempt at mead did not turn out all that well. Life got busy and I neglected the airlocks on the secondaries for close to a year. I...