Hello, I'm trying out a 1-ton T-bin this year, and was wondering if anyone had experience on a good process of getting the grapes out of the bin and into the...

I have a few carboys that over the years have some lime or film residue inside. Clorox or CLR won't remove it. Does anyone know what I could try to clean...

ok, started pitting and such, noticed that the plum material is a bit to fine to stay in a straining bag(looks like mush). How will we measure the SG? the...

The elderberries are just starting to ripen over here. And I already picked about 4 kilo !! Now you can make an excellent wine from elderberries (even a...

Assuming you are using whole crushed grapes less stems and Lalvin K1 V1116 yeast and transferred most of the sludge (less seeds and skins) to a 5 gallon carboy...

I live in the UK and current recommendation from the home winemaking stores in the middle of England (including some commercial wineries I know) is to ferment...

My plums are ripe. taste great and I've already gathered enough to make a half batch of wine(if i wished) thing is, they are a pain to pit. local wineshop...

pitched the yeast in yesterday, not a bubble today, what should i start looking for? when should the fermentation start showing itself? I think that I may...

Hi, all. I am making a WinExpert Corvina Classico di Veneto kit. This is a new grape and taste to me, but found the marketing hype too good to pass up....

Tuesday morning bright and early took off at o-dark thirty to pick up a quarter ton of ripe and ready Viognier from a vineyard in the Fair Play region. Grapes...

I just recently started this wine based on Jack Keller's recipe and since there are many posts on the topic I thought I would share my experiences with making...

ok, my titration kit measures acid levels in % as expressed in tartaric, while one of my books refer to it in ppt. how do i convert? My plum wine was high in...

OK. After a positive experience on my first two kit wines I'm ready to go again. This time I'd like to get 2-3 different red wines, bottle up 2-3 gallons of...

been casualy picking plums for the past two days and did some weighing. the reciepies i see call for 3-6 pounds of plums PER gallon, then up to 3/4 of a...

Can you clean wine bottles that have been stained? If so what is the best way?

Thanks to the comments from the group, my pH meter appeared last week from e-bay. Micorbiologist friend helped with explanations, calibration and calibration...

I recently traveled to France where I tasted sweet muscats. I'm not sure if they were fortified, but they didn't taste like they had more than the routine...

A few years ago I made a 7 gallon batch of wine. I followed the usual instructions of adding a couple of campden tablets per gallon on each racking (2 times)...

About drinking Wine and Beer one after the other; some years ago I heard the ditty: Wine after Beer and you'll feel queer, Beer after wine and you'll feel...

Hello! Just finished bottling my first two batches - Ken Ridge Showcase Australian Shiraz and Legacy Piesporter. The wines are nice and I'm pleased with the...

So heres the plan.....I'm hoping to get #400 of syrah grapes from the strip...do my primary in a 60 gal drum , and at some point put it through a ML culture....

Does anyone have an opinion as to whether it is ok to add ML culture at dryness, but before extended maceration? I have heard of adding it to the must at the...

Apparently the geeks in Europe have mapped the genome for vitis vinifera. Which raises, in my mind, the question: will it now be possible to predict the flavor...

There has been considerable discussion on this topic, and I've tried a number of different approaches. Most were mediocre at best. Butyrate dope thinner works...

someone posted about soaking a type of fruit in water to see if they are ripe(ripe ones sink) but ALL the plums i've been picking have been sinking. is this...