Winemaking Craft Forum

Sterlisation

Hi I am looking to sterile bottle for the first time. I have one of the little vacuum bottle rigs and have got a filter...

6 comments posted 19yrs

posted by anton

6 comments posted 19yrs posted by anton

storing dried yeast

If I use dried yeast from one of those hermetically sealed foil packets but don't use the entire packet, can that yeast...

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posted by abe865fdecdefg235726816

11 comments posted 19yrs posted by abe865fdecdefg235726816

now that is really cool :-D

well, my kit said to move to a carboy at SG 1.010 so i did and fitted tha airlock. HOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME THAT BUBBLES...

13 comments posted 19yrs

posted by tater1337

13 comments posted 19yrs posted by tater1337

While not exactly wine - but the easiest way to make Ginger beer.

But since making Rootbeer was mentioned: I've tried this guy's method and it works like a charm. The end product is ver...

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posted by morganor

1 comments posted 19yrs posted by morganor

need help improving quality

I made my first wine not long ago and after three months in the bottle I don't like it very much. My wife and I drink a...

38 comments posted 19yrs

posted by nospam

38 comments posted 19yrs posted by nospam

Potato wine

Hullo all, I had some very good advice and information from people in this group a couple of years ago, now I'd like to...

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posted by alan

0 comments posted 19yrs posted by alan

making root beer

when I started my wine kit, I also tried to do a gallon of homemade root beer i also picked up(on a lark) I am pretty s...

9 comments posted 19yrs

posted by tater1337

9 comments posted 19yrs posted by tater1337

started my wine kit saturday

And boy, does that yeast make a racket! anyway a wineshop owner I was talking to last friday said I should completly sk...

7 comments posted 19yrs

posted by tater1337

7 comments posted 19yrs posted by tater1337

Corker on Ebay...

Just as an FYI, there is an antique bottle corker on EBay that is mislabeled as a CAPPER... I bought one simlar to this...

0 comments posted 19yrs

posted by derric1961

0 comments posted 19yrs posted by derric1961

Congratulations! You have posted the fifty millionth hydrometer question on this group!

...but no-one seems to have asked this before...... do hydrometers 'age'? Can a hydrometer become unreliable simply bec...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by snpforwine

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by snpforwine

Off odor in red wine from grapes

This wine is Zin and Cab . I had a problem with S02 (rotten egg smell) early on I used copper sulfite to get rid of the...

5 comments posted 19yrs

posted by tsherlock

5 comments posted 19yrs posted by tsherlock

Speaking of labels

Whilst removing labels I came across a bottle my son picked up in Arkansas. It used to hold a rather nice Chardonay fro...

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posted by phony

0 comments posted 19yrs posted by phony

Removing labels

Looking ahead to bottling up 5-gallons of Shiraz I've been out in the garagecleaning up some bottles. I've been using v...

11 comments posted 19yrs

posted by phony

11 comments posted 19yrs posted by phony

Rumpot?

I give up. What's a rumpot?

12 comments posted 19yrs

posted by bob

12 comments posted 19yrs posted by bob

That was close...

I brought my Australian Shiraz (Selection International Kit) in from the garage refrigerator to do Step-4 of the instru...

5 comments posted 19yrs

posted by phony

5 comments posted 19yrs posted by phony