Winemaking Craft Forum

The Rise And Fall Of WIne (In The Carboy)

When first racking the last wine I started (a cranberry - currant) into a secondary, I was glad to have enough to fill...

6 comments posted 19yrs

posted by merrydown

6 comments posted 19yrs posted by merrydown

White Film, Bubbles, Rotten Eggs- This day just gets worse.

Evening all- Before I split my lid, I thought I'd ask a bit of advice. 2 weeks ago I looked at and sulphited my wines t...

8 comments posted 19yrs

posted by purduephotog

8 comments posted 19yrs posted by purduephotog

Lemon wine, take 2

A year+ ago, I tried to make lemon wine from basically lemonade, I am certain it was too acidic, and fermentation refus...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by adamDOTprebleATgmail.com

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by adamDOTprebleATgmail.com

Welch's and foam...

I started a Welch's Concord batch according to Jack Keller's recipe. I parted from the recipe only in that instead of g...

13 comments posted 19yrs

posted by quixote

13 comments posted 19yrs posted by quixote

Dried Elderberry wine recipe - got too hot

Oh rats! I started a gallon of Dried Elderberry wine (Keller's site for recipe) and it was kinda cold in the house, so...

11 comments posted 19yrs

posted by DAxve1225x

11 comments posted 19yrs posted by DAxve1225x

Efficiency of Different Types of Caps and Corks

I made some basic observations of the bottles and caps/corks used for different types of bottles. For wine/champagne/sp...

4 comments posted 19yrs

posted by wine

4 comments posted 19yrs posted by wine

OG / SG Calculations

Hello. I hope my question is a simple one. Basically I am making a wine at the moment and due to a schoolboy error I ma...

9 comments posted 19yrs

posted by merrydown

9 comments posted 19yrs posted by merrydown

Apple Cider

We started our first batch of apple cider back in November - we just put the juice in a carboy and let it perk away......

3 comments posted 19yrs

posted by cboer

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by cboer

Pomegranate Wine update - 2nd racking

Three days ago, I added Kielosol and Chitosan, racked my pomegranate wine into two one-gallon jugs, and put them away i...

1 comments posted 19yrs

posted by phony

1 comments posted 19yrs posted by phony

Wanted: Reasonably Priced Digital Hydrometer

The words of Janis Joplin's "Oh Lord Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz" roll like honey through the canyons of what is l...

10 comments posted 19yrs

posted by rdadams

10 comments posted 19yrs posted by rdadams

Put a cork in it.

Just bottle a kit I made. and I had extreme difficulty in putting the corks into the bottles. I was re using the bottle...

4 comments posted 19yrs

posted by blank

4 comments posted 19yrs posted by blank

stupid newbie wants to know: can this batch be saved?

Hi I am just getting into making my own wine, and had pretty good success with my first attempt with a white zinfandel...

9 comments posted 19yrs

posted by lilabet

9 comments posted 19yrs posted by lilabet

looking for advice

Below is my attempt at the wine in Terry Gareys book (apple wine) 1/14/2007 Apple wine Recipe The Joy of Home WineMakin...

5 comments posted 19yrs

posted by sportinus

5 comments posted 19yrs posted by sportinus

Incorrect Scale Hydrometer Blues

Hi, I thought I had already posted this, but I hear no one else but me can see it so I post again. I wonder if you can...

20 comments posted 19yrs

posted by merrydown

20 comments posted 19yrs posted by merrydown

my wine wont start

I have just started out and on following the recipe below nothing is happenning, After adding the yeast the next day I...

15 comments posted 19yrs

posted by white_shadow

15 comments posted 19yrs posted by white_shadow