I have 3 batches of chardonnay going now. Two are warm ferments and the third is a cool ferment My warm ferments are about done and the cool has some time to...

Hey folks, Haven't posted here in a few years... since 2004 I think. I've been making wine since 2000, and for the very first time I harvested a very modest...

I was looking at doing a wine based on the Jalapeno recipe at Jack's site and it calls for golden raisins. All I've found so far are the Sunmade 15oz boxes of...

Whan wine oxidizes, what is it that oxidizes? Is it the alcohol or the other ingredients?

Hi all. Just re-racked my 2007 Concord batch to clean carboys on Sep 13th. I did not add Campden tabs this time because because I am not sure the SG was low...

little fruit flies are in my kitchen while I am doing my wine. I have not seen any in my must or secondaries, but I feel like I am playing with gasoline inside...

Any place on the web I can get this info. Just wondering how the weather treated the grapes this year.

Does anyone know if you can germinate grape seeds?

Just got a hannah phep ph meter , set it up and did 2 point calibration with pre packaged buffers....7 and 4.01 according to dorections.after calibration is...

When I started my pluot (plum/apricot cross) wine, I didn't have any pectic enzyme (or much of a clue as to what I was doing, but that's beside the point). I...

Hi, I've been making 6 gallon "KIT" wine for a year and a half. I've made 7 batches: 2 white, 2 red, 2 kool-aid (mist-type) and 1 sparkling. In all cases, I...

I let a section of my vineyard go for a couple of years and tried to rehabilitate it this weekend. I found that a couple of vines had died but, fortunately,...

traded a freind of mine a 3 bottles of wine for about 10 pounds of grapes. Havent done grape wine before, nto even sure what species of grape. nope, havent...

I am new to winemaking. So far I have made a single 5 gallon batch and I really did very little. I ordered the grapejuice from a company in utah which...

I am trying to calibrate my Hanna ph meter. I mixed up new solutions of 4.00 and 7.00 I hold on till CAL shows up. It says "use" 7.01 Then it says "use"...

When bottling wine and you have some left over that will not fill a bottle, what do you do with it? We've been making wine for a few months from a variety of...

I will have a 50gal drum of red must Preferred amount of yeast Preferred amount of nutrient Punch the cap down twice a day Ferment around 80 F 3 days 5 days 7...

ok, started a batch of plum wine, and am wondering how i should keep records on this, what should i record? acid level, inital SG, ingredients added, starting...

Came up with a pretty good way to de stem those little ederberries. After a few weekends of trial and error the process below is what I came up with. ...

Well, we have all heard of Pinor Noir and Pinot Gris (or Grigio). This year I decided (not really decided) to make Pinot Pink. This year is my first venture...

Okay, listen to this. I was on this site named AmericanWineCompany.comhttp://www.americanwinecompany.com Anyway, I got into their wine club for half the price...

Okay, listen to this. I was on this site named AmericanWineCompany.comhttp://www.americanwinecompany.com Anyway, I got into their wine club for half the price...

Has anyone used grapes from this source. Keystone Homebrew is selling them and I'd like to find out if they are any good.

Hello, Been awhile since I posted to this group, but I see a lot of the same experts are still here. I've been pretty busy lately and have left last fall's...

Anyone started MLF starter culture using Wyeast MLF and more or less the directions on this site: http://www.wyeastlab.com/com_w_malolacticstarter.cfm I...