I am doing my first kit wine, a vintners reserve chianti. Thank you all for the great advice so far. Today's question is one that has been buggin me as of...

A friend asked me how to turn wine into brandy. He was thinking of using Carlo Rossi. Which types of wines are appropriate for converting into brandy?...

The 55L Barrel was filled last month with a red blend of cab franc and merlot. The barrel is 6 months old and has had chardonnay in it before. How often...

I started a batch of cranberry wine following Jack Keller's recipe. After mixing all the ingredients, the specific gravity was 1.092, the TA was 0.52%, and the...

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Can anyone direct me to a good ginger beer recipe.

Will brass affect the taste of wine? Is air in the headspace of a secondary fermenter, if there is a lot of it, bad for the wine?

Making wine at home isn't necessarily easy. There's a lot of work involved, especially in cleaning and sanitizing, but the sense of accomplishment the...

How much pressure can be generated by fermentation? I would think at some point the preassure would kill the yeast or stop the process.

Hi I posted a message asking if anyone had any good wine 'recipes'for Muscat grapes about 6 months ago (I have a fairly large vine and don't know what to do...

What kind of gas S02 ???? Is it a powder that you mix with water ??? Moe

most winemaking recipes i have read say to wait 12hours after adding a campden tablet before adding pectic enzyme.why is this? does the SO2 affect / inhibit...

After primary fermentation of cranberry wine to a specific gravity of about 0.99, I transferred it to a carboy with an airlock. Quite a bit of the yeast was...

i saw your post,looks like you are close to erie.i am in conneaut ohio 20 miles to the east.i am new at the home wine making.do you no of any good brew stores...

Much to savor in Turin's rolling Piedmont The capital of Italy's Piedmont region, home to the Fiat automotive manufacturer, has a reputation as a somewhat drab...

I'm ramping up my wine making this year and have started to plan and buy equipment. I've been making batches of 5-7 gallons of wine to this point. I plan to...

hi guys, i was given 2 gallons of strawberry wine kit juice in dec . i followed directions to double up on the juice and make 6 gallons instead of 12. i did...

I have a 3 or 4 gallon oak barrel that my grandfather made vinegar in about 55 years ago... He would put some of the wine from his homemade stock in the barrel...

I was wondreing if anyone has treid ML-01 yeast and if so what did they think of it?

I have a peach wine that I made late last summer and I would like to fine it with Sparkolloid . The Sparkolloid that I bought is a cold mix and has no...

Yesterday I decided to titrate with NaOH to measure TA, but instead of looking at the color change, I used an electrode pH meter to find the end point. I'd...

Degassed my first kit wine (VR chianti) today...here's what I did... Got me one of those drill driven degassing paddle deals, the one that fits through the...

Good Evening- First, Thanks for the tips for the cheaper chromatography kit. It's been worth it so far. I have the following chromatogram- if I read it...

Hello, Over the holidays, a few friends were sitting around talking about how a handful of critics and a few giant companies are homogenizing the wines of the...

I made a really stupid mistake today when starting my 3rd batch of blueberry wine. I forgot to drain the sanitizing solution (package of .8% Cl mixed with 1.5...