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Blending Several Barrels

Is anyone blending multiple barrels for consistency? What type of vessel are you using? Is there some slick way of blen...
4 comments posted 19yrs
posted by dimariadav
4 comments posted 19yrs posted by dimariadav

blackberry & sloe wine (UK)

I am fortunate to have a great crop of both blackberries & sloes in my garden this year. I would normally make blackber...
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posted by paul_sims
0 comments posted 19yrs posted by paul_sims

Pulp Fermentaiton vs Juice for Apples

I have a bunch of apples that are wanting to be apple wine. Here are my options. 1. Pressing the apples and using the j...
11 comments posted 19yrs
posted by sieg01
11 comments posted 19yrs posted by sieg01

share a corker in BCS

Does anyone know of anyone in the Byan/College Station Texas area who would be willing to share the use of their corker...
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posted by aburdette
1 comments posted 19yrs posted by aburdette

Primary Fermantation Question from a First-Timer

I started my first batches of homemade wine. I started (3) 1 gallon batches of raspberry, blueberry, & apricot using Or...
4 comments posted 19yrs
posted by ericjp72
4 comments posted 19yrs posted by ericjp72

Screw Capped bottles for Wine

Do screw top bottles work as well as corked bottles for bottle aging wine. I have run across some that are very reasona...
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posted by ericjp72
19 comments posted 19yrs posted by ericjp72

Newbie Question On Recipe Scaling...

I've scaled up a 1gallon plum wine recipe to make a 5 gallon batch because I had a windfall. This is my first from scra...
5 comments posted 19yrs
posted by merrydown
5 comments posted 19yrs posted by merrydown

Malt in blueberry port

I'm assembling materials now to start a half-dozen batches of blueberry wine. One of the recipes - Roxanne's for bluebe...
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posted by j.wetmore
5 comments posted 19yrs posted by j.wetmore

Fresh Juice - mlf needed?

This year I hope to be making wine from fresh juice (6 gal pails from Lodi, CA). I have done kits, etc but never fresh...
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posted by trapbum
8 comments posted 19yrs posted by trapbum

Grapes for sale in Niagara

Hello This year we will have some grapes for sale for home winemaking. The season is running a week earlier than averag...
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posted by pinodiuva
0 comments posted 19yrs posted by pinodiuva

Sweetening

All, What is the best way to make the sugar syrup used in sweetening? What are your methods? Also, do you typically swe...
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posted by a
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Accidental Sparkling Wine

I have a batch of Barbera in my wine rack that I bottled in October. I realized that I forgot to add potassium metabisu...
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posted by chris
2 comments posted 19yrs posted by chris

Filtering (again)

I'm in the process of making a port wine kit. As part of the process they specify filtering to get rid of the yeast to...
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posted by bob
6 comments posted 19yrs posted by bob

My yeast seems really energetic!

I put my yeast (ADY) into the primary about 5 hours ago, 2 hours after that there was a layer about 1cm thick on top, n...
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posted by cezerpringle1
3 comments posted 19yrs posted by cezerpringle1