wine

Wow, I am really getting into this! My husband wasn't initially interested in my making cider; now he is. We weren't mead drinkers; now we are. Whenever I work up a sweat, I cool off with kombucha. I have started buying 3 gal carboys; I just bottled 4 gallons of cider. The other day I dropped a...

I am making wine for the first time. My HBC had a bulk buy of fresh Italian wine juice, so I got 6 gallons of Sangiovese. I built my starter, took my readings, and pitched the yeast. The sugar content is 23° brix, and I am using RC-212 Bourgovin yeast. I am curious about nutrients. I read some...

Hello friends, newbie here. So far I've tried making blackberry wine (which I think I racked off much too soon) and apple wine (which is fermenting away in the demijohns right now). For my next batch, I fancy having a go at making potato wine. I'm taking my lead from this slightly bonkers...

Hi! I am a newbie; I started with kombucha and am now experimenting with elderberry wine (from concentrate or dried berries; I hope to harvest my own berries next year) as well as mead and graf. Our boiler is in the basement, so the basement is the same temp as the rest of the house. Right now...

I made my first batch of wine (grapes were from my backyard). OG was ~1.08. The primary fermentation was a little slow, it dropped to SG 1.03 only after about a week, at which point I racked to secondary. It's been three weeks since I pitched the yeast, and it's sitting at SG 1.2- 1.018 at the...

So I started brewing with bakers yeast, can I kill it off with a campden tablet and then wait 48 hours then put in the wine yeast to finish the process. I didn't have time to commute to go get the wine yeast and needed to get the fruit started because it was starting to rot. I ended up heating...

Hi Everybody, I understand that adding Potassium Metabisulfite at bottling will help with anti-oxidation and preserving your wine longer. I have some questions related to this: 1) It seems counter-intuitive to add K-Meta to my carboy then bottle immediately. Wouldn't that cause a build-up of...

I am making my first attempt at watermelon wine on Monday. I have a decent amount of beer experience, but I've never done a wine. id love some feedback on my recipe. One gallon batch: take a large watermelon and puree the inside, run through a strainer to remove excess pulp. add 1 1/2lbs sugar...

Hello, I am rather new to wine making and am confused about hydrometer readings. I took a potential alcohol reading before pitching the yeast and it read 11%, which to me means the sugars will yield 11%ABV when fully fermented. After fermentation my hydrometer reads -1% PA, and according to...

Hi all, New to the forum and wine making. Girlfriend and I have tried a couple wine/mead kits and now are now trying our own. We have about 6lbs of picked fresh strawberries that we cleaned and froze. If anyone would be so kind as to provide some more specifics details on the dethawing...

Greetings, fellows. I’m new here, and I’m new to brewing. Over my years of perusing brew forums and seeing friends brew, I’ve noticed that standard practice among home-brewers is to use added sugars, “yeast nutrients” (isn’t what you’re fermenting nutritious enough for the yeast?), chemical...

Hi! I want to ask you fellows if you could recommend me some effective tool to be used for sensory evaluation...(I did a few research but I still want to gain knowledge from you!:) :) :) ) I also want to ask if there's a recommended time to conduct the sensory evaluation..Is it better to do...

Hi all! Does anyone have any experience sourcing used, good quality, large capacity fermenting tanks? My small orchard (~400 trees) is coming into bearing age, and it's time for me to start thinking about moving away from 5 gallon plastic carboys and put on my big boy pants. I'm specifically...

hey guys i'm new to brewing and i am just finishing up my first elderberry wine in memory of my grandpa, and i had an interesting idea for my next project. So once a week my friends and i get together and play d&d. In one of our sessions my character was the last person standing to going head...

I knocked up the following for my own use and figured others might be interested, it's based on Hisamoto et al (2010) who were looking for POF- wine yeasts to ferment the Japanese Koshu grape which is apparently notorious for its phenolics. So they measured 4-vinylphenol and 4-vinylguaiacol (in...

Sorry if this is a dumb and obvious question but I figured I'd rather get confirmation and than copper poisoning. Spent the last hour unsuccessfully googling for the answer. I called the manufacturer but was not able to get through to anyone. I bought a 30-plate wort 304 stainless heat...

Hi everyone, I've been attempting to make some plum wine by following this recipe: https://andhereweare.net/quick-easy-plum-wine/ Normally fruit wines seem to take 6 months, but this wine only takes around 6 weeks with the aid of 'Danstar Nottingham Ale Dry Beer Yeast' I combined the above...

Hello everyone Im having issues setting up a glycol system. Currently the setup is a 2.5M cooling snake hooked up to a kreyer chilly max 90 glycol system (34% glycol) feeding into the top of about 150 gallons of Pinot Gris. Im having two issues. First, if I push the temperature below -2C...

Hey Everyone..... - I melted down some Swedish Berry candies into red syrup. - Boiled it in a gallon of water. - Added sugar and acid blend - Added a cup of green tea And so far, it seems to be fermenting! Check out my photos!

I like beer but I also like wine. I would really like to keg premium wine from good wineries so I can have a glass or two when I want and not have to finish an entire bottle or feel bad about opening an expensive bottle. I don't have room or want 2 keezers. I am thinking about a new keezer...