Any thoughts around water chem for 5 gallon red wine kits? Water is water? My frame of reference is brewing good Irish stout. Going to try 5 gal Evian with...

Hello Nice idea and nice implementation. More informal than a News Group, but interesting and innovative in it's own...

ugh.... I've been reading all the joy and delight peopel find in making dandelion wine. I've found numerous recipes. Around where I live - many many...

My first attempt to cork my wine bottles resulted in a lot of shredded corks. I have an "Itallian wing corker" with 2 levers and a tapered channel - with a...

I was complaining recently ( well "moaning") about the high standing charges by my water/drainage supplier, to one of my sons --- as a very small user of...

Paul E. Lehmann wrote: Ray Calvert wrote: You need to stabilize the wine with sorbate and sulfite. An easy job. Just add them...

Pinot Noir is often called the heartbreak grape; it can be stunning or stunningly disappointing. The area it's grown in usually dictates the style as much as...

My thoughts exactly, it usually is lead. Lead is a problem, wine is acidic and will disolve some of it into suspension sooner or later. Rack it, now. Maybe...

Hello All, I have been making some wine for my upcoming wedding, it is nearly ready to bottle, However I was wondering if there is a way of making the wine a...

"The time to start worrying is when the fermentation ends and after the first racking. You'll need to keep air away from the wine by reducing the headspace to...

I am a new winemaker - I just started a batch of Pinot Noir from a kit. The problem I had is that when I initially poured the juice into my sanitized wine...

Don't worry. It takes a lot worse than that to really mess up a batch of wine. Once the yeast get going and you develop a bit of alcohol, most bacteria and...

The glass is no problem, it will be left behind during the racking. Do not know about the liquid and what ever else was in the thermometer. It is probably...

Man, you must be planning on one heck of a lot of marinade! I made a 3-gallon batch of Jalapeno wine using Jack's recipe, and that may last me for the rest of...

Hi All, Just looking for some advise... I've been offered a Penfolds Grange Shiraz Bin 95 1996 750ml How much should I pay for it? Just starting my...

"The Lonely Sea" wrote in message ... Back to ask some questions...

gee, i've been letting grape juice ferment itself for over a year on one pack of yeast and have yet to have any problems with it, yet you have, evidently, all...

This assume perfect coupling which you can get on the thermometer, the pot in a pot would be tougher. I don't understand where the air flow comes from...

Greetings all I've been making strawberry wine for a few years now and my biggest problem is that although the juice might start bright and red, inside two...

I am going strawberry picking with the company I work with this Friday. I guess we're having a "fun day". I plan on picking or buying about 20 lbs to make 6...

Got a question, I made some peach and muscadine wine back in late December early January I believe it was. I added a little bit more sulfite than I usually...

Hi I found 4 bottles of wine in the old air raid shelter in our garden. Can anyone tell me (a)if any of them would be of any value? and (b) would they be safe...

Last weekend I went out to cluster thin as recommended in From Vines to Wine. I am in Southern California, have about 15 4-yr old Syrah and Grenache vines on a...

I have made (wine I hope) from a kit.I'm at the stage where i add the clearing agents and I still smell a little yeast odor,is this normal? If not, what can I...

I get hold of 4 small barrels from Tonnellerie, never used & pretty dried up. Got three of them banged together, but the fourth refuse to have all the hoops to...