Is it possible to age cider with oak chips? Would that taste good? I have heard some applejack is aged this way and wondered if it would be appropriate with...

Hi, I'm going to receive a couple of bushels of pears from a friend in the fruit industry he says they're just about ready and ripe - they've been in deep...

I keep reading that I should use Clinitest for checking residual sugar when I bottle my wine. I like to stabilize and then add more sugar before bottling. My...

Found last night that a carboy of Reisling well past the secondary lost its airlock. Don't know if it was the kids, the dog or what. Potential time exposed...

Hi Has any body made wine from melons befor, if so what was the ingredients and hows it come out Rgds Kevin

Jack, Read a bit ago a couple of posts about using Splenda or Stevia to sweeten wines. Someone mentioned that you were doing some tests with...

HI...is anyone familiar with ..Winekitz Ultimate wine kit series?.......is is considered a quality kit?

First of all, excuse me for misspelling previously the Port wine word. I am planning a trip to the Douro region. Can you all please tell me anythign related...

If you wish to stir on the fine lees to in encourage autolysis and give the wine complexity can this be done after you have added potassium metabisulphite and...

I recently toured a winery and was told that they take the wine out of the primary, then bottle it and let it finish aging in the bottles. I thought you took...

Do labels printed from inkjet printers wear well with the passage of time?

Folks, I'm a 'newbie' at making wine and at this stage am using wine kits that allow me to mix the ingredients like a soup mix. A question.....once the wine...

Wow Ed! I just started a Viogner tonight! Sorry I can't tell you the results yet... I went with the Brew King. I've always made wine the "old fashioned" way...

It is interesting that at w/e's the number of new posts drops drastically. Then Monday -- back to normal. It becomes apparent that a great many posters do it...

Hello, Can you all that have Porto wine books, recommend me the best most updated ones, with nice photos. I want in particular a Guide to Porto wines, I mean...

I am still playing around with a batch of blackberry I made a few months ago. I checked, and it has a post-ferment TA of about 1.4%. Pretty nasty stuff! I...

Last October when I first got started in homebrewing and mead/winemaking one of the first recipes I tried was the Christmas Spice Metheglin on Vicky's site...

Can anyone provide me with a good source for mail order California Grape juice ?

Would it be OK to break in a new wine barrel by barrel fermenting some apple cider? I don't want to "taint" the barrel with apple character that might pass on...

Anyone have any experience using this in a Riesling or similar wine? TIA Brian

I am a day trader of various stocks and have been looking for a small, inexpensive and simple stock ticker for my desktop. I also dabble in other hobbies and...

Hello group, I am a total newbie to making wine and growing grapes. And I'm looking for any advice you can give me. I have about forty acres in North East...

I am thinking of doing a trial batch of apple wine using pure juice and bringing up the sugar content to the desired brix using frozen concentrate instead of...

I was looking at a plastic collapsible fermenter and was thinking it would be a great way of avoiding the dilution effects of topping off or needing to have...