Picked about 70 lb of them today...only took 6 hours. :^) The problem is the clusters are very small and scattered. The good thing is the way I picked...

My plum tree is once again producing prodigious amounts of fruit. Having nothing better to amuse myself, i want to take a crack at a sweet plum wine. Went to...

Is the length of time to see meaningful fermentation have a correlation to primary size? I am doing my first 10-gallon batch. I pitched the yeast on...

Guys I was joking about the 65G barrel (i do have it though) as a primary. but it got me to thinking, wouldnt larger primaries (and secondaries) help balance...

I picked up a stray bucket of Bolero yesterday (White Merlot). The owner didn't know what to do with it, and offered a price I couldn't resist. What I...

I need to get moving on getting some more wine going. I generally prefer the Winexpert Estate series. Since returning to Las Vegas, however, I haven't found...

I've got some choices. one 6 gallon carboy, or six 1 gallon carboys for secondary fermenting. can someone give me some advice? (actually it is more like an...

Someone asked how I make Dandelion Wine: I use a recipe I got fro Jack Keller's website the only thing I do differently to this wine is add...

I transferred some apple wine from my primary to my secondary yesterday. I used a yeast that I hadn't used before and was concerned about the activity that...

Old Sherry ,The Story of the First Hundred Years of Gonzalez Byass & Co. Ltd.1835 - 1935 1st Impression.1935,slightly grubby boards,otherwise VGC , 155...

I a struggling with this PH thing. I do not make wine from grapes because grapes don't grow here in Alaska and it costs a small fortune to have them shipped...

Would it be possible to make cherry wine from Wild Black Cherry Trees? My concern would be the development of Prussic Acid. Any advice here would be...

I was going to try to make a carrot wine this weekend. Does anyone have any pointers? I was going to make a 5 gallon batch, starting with 4 or 5 cans...

How do you remove laminated labels from wine bottles? Soaking in hot water is ineffective. Brillo didn't even scratch it. Heating in a microwave on high for...

Have 6 gallons of local grape wine I want to sorbate but have never monkeyed with this stuff before. Potassium Sorbate, bottle says 1/2 tsp/gal. Is this the...

I have my barrel against an interior concrete wall here in Napa and I thought that would be ok to age it. I just checked the internal temperature of the wine...

I didn't mean from the actual trees...I meant from the fruit...

This may be a dumb question but I'm wanting to make a small batch of wine, my first go at it, but all I have are my 5 and 6.5 gallon carboys for brewing beer,...

Oh rats! I started a gallon of Dried Elderberry wine (Keller's site for recipe) and it was kinda cold in the house, so I sat it on a heating pad, forgot to...

Hello all - I made a barrel of Chardonnay this year from fresh fruit, and I thought I'd appeal to the group to help me understand and solve a couple of issues...

Some time ago there was discussion of pH meters, with a recommendation for one sold by a Quebec firm. I've lost the reference - can anybody help me? As for...

Subject: Water & Wine In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the...

I've just gotten some american oak medium toast oak chips to try out on my pom/blueberry wine. I've never oaked before, so does anyone have any step by steps I...

Has anyone experimented with adding herbs to their wine? I know it is done in making a type of mead (metheglin) and in making some Christmas drinks with...

I would like to start making homemade wine. Does anyone have any good recipes? Thanks in advance....