We have been making fruit wine for over 40 years. We have always used Campden tabs or metabisulfite. We also utilize fruit we freeze and thaw with boiling...

hi. i was told my grandad made tomato wine and onion wine back during the depression and during ww2. i looked in m recipe book and sure enough there is the...

I am from Indiana, and looking for someone close-by to purchase some Cataba grapes or some Catawba juice from. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

I fancy manking some rosehip wine. There are lots around at the moment. My question is ... can any be used? On a walk down a (UK) canal on Sunday I say:...

Does anyone know a grape/juice source in Northern New Jersey besides Corradoes? Is Hunt's Point market still open and selling grapes? thanks

My wife asked me if I could brew a Mead that tasted like Paul Masson's Rare Cream Sherry. Fortunately it's unlikely that she recalls the taste. So a good...

Hi all! we are the proud owners of some damsons scrumped from the hedgerow. Does anyone have a favourite recipe for a gallon of wine? I've seen one for Welsh...

Hi y'all, As the warmer seasons are approaching here in the Southern Hemesphere and the blackberries over the fence will soon be doing their thang. I...

I started with fresh buffalo grapes and used only the juice. I have 5 gallons in a carboy for a week now after the initial fermentation in a covered...

Hi, First up, I'm an extreme novice in the arts of home brewing so please excuse my ignorance/stupidty ... A month ago I started two wines, a Loganberry...

Anyone have a source?? I would like to get 500 or so... 1000 if I have to. I am also looking for the mushroom type corks for sparkling wines.

Hi. Just bottled my first 6 gallon batch of red, truly fun experience. Now I am looking at some speciality 1 gallon batches (like cranberry, blueberries, etc.)...

Hello group I have a strawberry wine that has developed H2S. Probably because I did not get it off the lees in time. I have racked it twice with a lot of...

I currently have a subscription to WineMaker Magazine. Are there any other good ones out there? Maybe something a bit more advanced? thanks

For all of us who grow wine grapes, and have been scratching our heads with all the powdery mildew, here's an interesting article about how it's been a problem...

Hello, I was out in my garden yesterday, and I have an abundance of cucumbers sitting in my fridge right now. Having made as many sweet pickles as I care to...

Hello, group! I've come across a fixed volume SS container in the range of 30 gallons that will work well for me when I do some refurb to remove some...

The information at Jack Keller's website and the information in Lum's manual both speak very favorably about "Lalvin EC-1118 (Prise de Mousse). It appears to...

I went to pop the cork on the last bottle of my first wine, a concord/niagra Welchs and strawberry wine, and found quite a bit of stuff floating. This stuff...

Just to let you guys know, the white must that I had done like red wine ( skins and pulp in the must) was extremely sour after the first fermentation. I am...

In the book I have it says nothing about doing white and red wine differently so I did a crush of white grapes and I am not in the first stage of fermentation....

I have a rhubarb patch which is threatening to take over the garden and I thought I might make a batch of wine with it, but I have been advised that only early...

hi, my folks are making some chokecherry wine, their second year doing so. against my advise they pitched fleischmanns bread yeast before i could arrive with...

I checked th SG this morning of my first batch of wine. I started the whole process with 5 gal of squeezed strained juice from my own Buffalo grapes (no skins...

Does anyone have a recipe specific to pineapple skins? I have a pineapple wine recipe for sweet and dry styles which would be the obvious alternative recipe....