Hi: Here is my wine fantasy. Ripe French white wine grapes are used. Before fermentation, all acids, sulphides, oxides, minerals, metals, ions, and...

I am wonder if I had an allergic reaction to some potassium metabisulphite. This is the first time I used it, and it was technically for homebrewing, but I...

Can any of you help me out.... I'm doing a project with my kids on bottle rockets and need to find a couple of bored rubber bungs that will fit into (and...

Two years ago I made 5 gallons of Birch sap wine. Still, today its not all that clear. Either I did do it right, was given the wrong yeast energiser or I...

I only make a few single 1 gallon batches a year which turn out reasonalble. But I've been given 6 x 1gal sweet white kits. Can I use the grape concentrate...

Rec.Crafts.Brewing uses a wet t shirt to get an average 6 to 8 degree drop on carboys. Comments on the t shirt aside, if your relative humidity is low this...

Rec.Crafts.Brewing uses a wet t shirt to get an average 6 to 8 degree drop on carboys. Comments on the t shirt aside, if your relative humidity is low this...

Yesterday I was testing pH and TA on a must and, AGAIN, I got low pH (3.35) and low TA (0.4%). This had happened to me previously with another batch. I know...

Syrah and Viognier are often cited as a grape combination where co-pigmentation is observed. Does anyone know of other combinations the demonstrate...

My family is starting a small vineyard in the hopes of having a running winery down the road. I'm interested in doing homebrew wine. I've got a buddy that...

What, exactly does the date on a commercial wine bottle signify? is it the date of bottling or date oor date when they began making the stuff? Why is there...

Up in wisconsin I have (I, and a dozen other members of the family, though they dont know it) 10 acres of land, with about 4 acres of woods, and 5 acres of...

I think something's gone wrong with my parsnip wine. As usual, I cut up the roots and soaked them in boiling water for 24 hours, strained them off and added...

Hi All, This is my first time on this group and i gotta say it seems really good! I've successfully done 3 or 4 wine kits so far and they all turned out...

I've made a wine from a kit. I have it bottled now and the instructions said that you could drink it right away but it tastes kind of yeasty. Is that a normal...

Hello All, I live in Arizona, and have around fifteen one gallon batches of wine in secondary fermenters that I want to keep cool over the summer. There is...

Have you ever opened a bottle of drink soft drink, wine, beer, juice, or similar and found that it is not quite right. The reason for this is due to the...

Just received this from a friend. Thought I'd share... ;-) Apples and Wine Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men...

VINUMPRESS.COM announce a free news and press release database for businesses and media world winde, allowing wine business owners to post new announcements...

I have a 2000 lbs of Washington cab/sav grapes from the freezer. The brix is 21 I am thinking about adding some sugar but am not sure how much to add per liter...

I have a 5-gallon Concord wine going that I think will be pretty good. I have taken great care with it. I feel I want to make another kind of wine to blend...

Original post available on google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.winemaking/browse_thread/thread/bf57602c0662c877/aeba9a96c28ca817 I've...

Anybody have anything good to say about using liquid oak essence instead of aging? I can see it adding a flavor of oak, but aging does more than just add oak...

Here is the process that can be used to make this. True Limoncello is made with high alcohol spirits and very specific lemons in Italy but this turned out...

i made 5 gallons of persimon wine last summer. it has good alcohol content but really not much flavor at all. would it be wise to add welches grape consentrate...