New Wine Brewer from MN.

[M22KLARS]

Hello all. I'm a first time wine brewer that has lots of questions and wants to expand my wine making abilites.

My current set up is 2 - 1 callon glass carboys, 12 glass wine bottles with screw on caps, some red star wine yeast and a 3 foot section of plastic tube to siphon the wine from carboy to bottle.

So far I have made two batches of balloon wine. One with welches white grape juice and one with welches red grape juice. I think they turned out good considering they only fermented for 11 days in my two - 1 gallon carboys. I know.. I'm sure most of you are laughing right now but it's ok. I said that I want to expand my wine making abilities remember?!

I have also dabbled with brewing beer from the Mr. Brew kits. They turned out ok but I would also like to experiment a little more with beer as time goes on.

So that's about it for me.


--Dan

 

[Meisterlowin]

Welcome!

My first wine was made via the balloon method and I'm still lookin for the monkey that crapped in it. I hope you have better luck than I did. There's plenty of great info here so you're in the right spot.

 

[M22KLARS]

Welcome!

My first wine was made via the balloon method and I'm still lookin for the monkey that crapped in it. I hope you have better luck than I did. There's plenty of great info here so you're in the right spot.

Thanks! Actually I really do think that both of my batches turned out really well. I mean as well as balloon wine can turn out I guess. It tastes great, maybe a bit sweet and the acid content might be a bit high but overall I'm pretty happy. Other than the headache the next day.
Hence why I want to expand my knowledge. Things like, how do I get the white wines to appear "clear". Or how to use additives. Or what will happen if I let the wine ferment longer than 11 days. Say a month, or 4 months or longer?

As you will see, I have lots of questions but I know I have to do a little searching around here before I go wasting bandwidth on new thread that have been answered a million and one times.