Winemaking Craft Forum

Champagne

I have never made wine(but made lots of beer), and I was thinking of making a sparkling wine/champagne. Has anyone ever...

8 comments posted 19yrs

posted by hopfest

8 comments posted 19yrs posted by hopfest

Is Filtering really necessary?

I am a relatively new home winemaker that uses various winexpert kits for now. I am curious as to whether it would be p...

9 comments posted 19yrs

posted by bmazola

9 comments posted 19yrs posted by bmazola

Pomegranate Wine... looking for a recipe, I am

Hello, I'm a new kid here, so please put up with me for a while. My first batch of homemade wine from a kit ended up wi...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by phony

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by phony

forgot to put water/sulfite solution in airlock for 1 day

I am making a Vinters Reserve Pinot Grigio. I am in "Secondary Fermentation" - about 14 days into the process awaiting...

3 comments posted 19yrs

posted by bmazola

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by bmazola

Banana wine... recipe mistake ? (Anderson book)

I'd like to make a nice white wine for summer. I've made good wines from peaches and apricots. Neither of those fruits...

4 comments posted 19yrs

posted by nobody

4 comments posted 19yrs posted by nobody

ML & Zin

Hi, I made 54L demijohn of Zinfandel from Lodi grapes and I'm unable to secure ML culture as all nearby retailers have...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by angelop123

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by angelop123

Cold Stabilization

So, here in the Portland Oregon area, we've got snow and temperatures are expected to sit at freezing for the next 3 da...

3 comments posted 19yrs

posted by robert_woodard

3 comments posted 19yrs posted by robert_woodard

SG alcohol / sugar table

Does anyone have a table, tool, or formulae that allows them to calculate alcohol and remaining sugar - assuming you kn...

5 comments posted 19yrs

posted by replytogroup

5 comments posted 19yrs posted by replytogroup

heating belt height in carboy

Got me a heating belt recently. The instructions say to girdle the carboy with it one third down from the top. I see th...

1 comments posted 19yrs

posted by snpforwine

1 comments posted 19yrs posted by snpforwine

How do I make a really good red wine ? (Blueberries ?)

... without buying and pressing grapes ? I just bought and started a "Harvest Select" brand Shiraz wine kit. It has 10L...

7 comments posted 19yrs

posted by nobody

7 comments posted 19yrs posted by nobody

Pomegranate desert wine

She-who-must-be-obeyed came into possession of a couple boxes of perfectly ripe pomegranates. Yesterday morning we crus...

1 comments posted 19yrs

posted by replytogroup

1 comments posted 19yrs posted by replytogroup

Montmorecy Tart Cherry

I was given quite a lot of SouthRidge Farms Montmorecy Tart Cherry Juice Concentrate. Does anyone have a recipe/procedu...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by ajrawls1

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by ajrawls1

Using Fining Agents

I am going to use Kieselsol & Gelatin to fine some white wine that has not cleared on its own and I am wondering should...

2 comments posted 19yrs

posted by jimrobertson

2 comments posted 19yrs posted by jimrobertson

Gas in white wines............

I've noticed when degassing WE kits, that whites are much gassier than reds and foam up like crazy during the degassing...

12 comments posted 19yrs

posted by jomuam

12 comments posted 19yrs posted by jomuam

oaking a wild fruit port

Hi I'm currently fermenting a wild fruit wine (blueberry, elderberry, raspberry, blackberry, chokecherry and Niagara gr...

6 comments posted 19yrs

posted by mmorest

6 comments posted 19yrs posted by mmorest