Winemaking Craft Forum

  1. Home
  2. Winemaking Craft Forum
5283 Threads Posts
to

Aging In Bulk Vs Aging In Bottle

I live in the UK and current recommendation from the home winemaking stores in the middle of England (including some co...
3 comments posted 18yrs
posted by merrydown
3 comments posted 18yrs posted by merrydown

MLF Starter Culture

Anyone started MLF starter culture using Wyeast MLF and more or less the directions on this site: http://www.wyeastlab....
8 comments posted 18yrs
posted by midnight
8 comments posted 18yrs posted by midnight

Blending Wine From Kits

OK. After a positive experience on my first two kit wines I'm ready to go again. This time I'd like to get 2-3 differen...
4 comments posted 18yrs
posted by jrbno
4 comments posted 18yrs posted by jrbno

First crush of the season

Tuesday morning bright and early took off at o-dark thirty to pick up a quarter ton of ripe and ready Viognier from a v...
1 comments posted 18yrs
posted by donotreply
1 comments posted 18yrs posted by donotreply

de-stemming elderberries

Came up with a pretty good way to de stem those little ederberries. After a few weekends of trial and error the process...
3 comments posted 18yrs
posted by hapmyster
3 comments posted 18yrs posted by hapmyster

a question about sweet white wines

I recently traveled to France where I tasted sweet muscats. I'm not sure if they were fortified, but they didn't taste...
5 comments posted 18yrs
posted by lg1111
5 comments posted 18yrs posted by lg1111

"like wine" to top up a WinExpert Corvina Classico

Hi, all. I am making a WinExpert Corvina Classico di Veneto kit. This is a new grape and taste to me, but found the mar...
9 comments posted 18yrs
posted by DAxve1225x
9 comments posted 18yrs posted by DAxve1225x

there has to be an easier way

My plums are ripe. taste great and I've already gathered enough to make a half batch of wine(if i wished) thing is, the...
7 comments posted 18yrs
posted by tater1337
7 comments posted 18yrs posted by tater1337

how to test plum ripeness? (my plums are ripe!!!)

someone posted about soaking a type of fruit in water to see if they are ripe(ripe ones sink) but ALL the plums i've be...
0 comments posted 18yrs
posted by tater1337
0 comments posted 18yrs posted by tater1337

plum recipie analysis (my plums are ripe!!!!)

been casualy picking plums for the past two days and did some weighing. the reciepies i see call for 3-6 pounds of plum...
7 comments posted 18yrs
posted by tater1337
7 comments posted 18yrs posted by tater1337

MLF and Extended maceration

Does anyone have an opinion as to whether it is ok to add ML culture at dryness, but before extended maceration? I have...
4 comments posted 18yrs
posted by marcortins
4 comments posted 18yrs posted by marcortins

Interesting articel in the news

Apparently the geeks in Europe have mapped the genome for vitis vinifera. Which raises, in my mind, the question: will...
1 comments posted 18yrs
posted by donotreply
1 comments posted 18yrs posted by donotreply

Cleaning Wine Bottles

Can you clean wine bottles that have been stained? If so what is the best way?
9 comments posted 19yrs
posted by rfisher8
9 comments posted 19yrs posted by rfisher8

A follwup topping off question.

Assuming you are using whole crushed grapes less stems and Lalvin K1 V1116 yeast and transferred most of the sludge (le...
6 comments posted 19yrs
posted by helenacrawford
6 comments posted 19yrs posted by helenacrawford