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...ly from Crete, arriving in this part of Italy many centuries ago, and it is also one of the oldest known grapes. Up until 30-50 years ago it was only vinified in sweet and demi-sec style, but Donati n...
I started two 5 gallon batches of Welch's Grape juice wine per Jack
Keller's recipe. The initial hydrometer reading was around 1.098 or approx.
13% alcohol. I made it directly in the carboy and cove
...ce then I made elderberry, blackberry, current, another batch of raspberry, and sour cherry. Since wine grapes are not very prominent in my area I was thinking about trying to make some concord wine ...
...st racking, not bad. I am now thinking about the next one. At first I wanted to do a pyment (mead with grape juice in place of water), but then I thought about doing a "juice wine". How would the f...
I have been given some of this, 12 cans to be exact. Can a decent wine be made from this? I see Jack K has a concentrate recipe for Welchs, but not sure this is the same type. Could I use that reci
... by using top-quality rice, it won't come out any better).
* 10 lbs. white sugar.
* 1/2 gallon white grape juice (WARNING: Read the label, if the grape juice contains sodium metabisulphate or pota...
...ought I would try something different and make a cooler style wine kit--was thinking of the Niagara Mist Grapefruit Blush. Anyone else tried this
(My only other cooler style wine I have made was Blac...
I see two types grape crushers on Ebay that seem radically different in design. One has the two meshing rollers, and the other has porcupine spines on a single roller. Might anyone have an opinion on
...r year, and have never filtered before (although I think some of the kits, particularly ones made with a grape pack could have used filtering).
Do most kit maker filter, or just rack/rerack etc....
...rtified wine, perhaps made in a manner similar to the way a Port is made but using some variety of white grapes. I suppose that, like Burgundy, etc., there is no prohibition against using the word Tok...
...usehold (not commercial) quantities of Aleatico, Grenache, or some other high sugar, low acid, vinifria grape that does well in hot places.
I tried a similar post last month but had no luck. I wo...
...the wall" but I am researching if it is possible to essentially prevent fermentation in freshly squeezed grapes; just the opposite of what is desired in making wine. I realize that in the time it take...
I make a standard Welche's Grape Juice wine and I have noticed that the wine is good ,but fizzy. My wife rather likes it, but I have not experienced this phenomenon in the past using the same recipes
...ndicate where it is from. A few grams per liter tartaric/citric addition to an over ripened Napa valley grape would produce the same effect. But who cares? All anyone is looking for is a new witty ...
...ing", and was also interested in Jon
Iverson's "Home Winemaking Step-by-Step: A Guide to Fermenting Wine
Grapes". I mostly make grape wines, and I will probably only buy one of these books right now. ...
...h a gallon of Welch's wine, but I'm having trouble finding a grocery store that carries anything but the Grape
"cocktail" concentrates. I have already bought two of those mistakenly, which I guess I'...
...g terms are often used to describe odor fruité with the odor of different fruits, not merely grapes.
floral with the odor of flowers framboisé suggesting raspberries fin ...
...tting into making wine within a year or two. I have no experience with wine making at all. I have four grape vines in my back yard that I am considering making the wine from. I am sure that with on...
...y Garage. They are in great condition just don't have time for wine making any more.
Also have a small grape/cide press and an Italian floor corker for sale.
Asking $5 for 5 gallon and $7 for the 7...
I just finished making 7 gallons of simple Welches grape juice wine. Just beginning my wine making experience and I have bottled 21 bottles of wine using used twist top bottles. They are currently i
I was going to try a 1 gallon batch of Jacks Welch's recipe but found I could not find grape juice concentrate in any of the major supermarkets here in Ireland (or regular grape juice that wasn't gour
...cutive batches this way without cleaning or adding yeast.
Question #6: I'm looking at the Welches white grape juice concentrate label, and it lists preservatives. Can I use it with my EZ Caps?
Answe...
...ruit wine.
I'm using a recipe from Winemaking by Stanley Dorothy Anderson. It a fruit base with some grape concentrate for sweetening.
Here's the primary sequence:
96 oz strawberry & cherry c...
...added or what the sugar content is in a bottle of(label reads)
Pure California
St. Paul
A light sweet grape wine
approved for sacamental use
Mont La Salle Altar Wine
or
Cribari Altar Wine
...
I have just stripped an abundant crop of small grapes from a vine in the garden. It is not convenient to convert these into wine (lack of facilities etc), and to eat them is not really practical as th
...e gave me a 23 liter pail of this wine kit for my birthday. I see the pail says " Made with 100% Italian Grape Juice"....but listed on the ingredients label is
" Varietal Grape Juice Concentrate" .......
We have decided to grow our own red grapes for merlot or other red wines. My question- We live in Maine. I have called two online vendors of vines, but the vines they sell are from California. Now ob
...ay over 300 bottles of Prickly Pear, Peach, Pineapple and Tea wines?. I have been making wine from fresh grapes and fruits for many years with very satisfactory results but this is the first time I ha...
... in stainless steel drums, is this good?
Some wiseguy mentioned that all Carlo Rossi's are not made with grapes, this sounds fishy to me.
Thanks again for the help,...
okay---i mashed the grapes, checked the sg and it was 1.060. added the mutrient and the yeast, covered it, stirred it every day for a week and kept it lightly covered at a temp of about 70.
today I
...nt to get rid of CO2. I can't find the paperwork now.
I'm now making my first batch of wine from my own grapes and the primary ferm went fine and I've racked to secondary and topped off and locked.
...
i have 6gals. of cab. from grapes. after 1st rack i have an egg smell. is the wine bad or is there a way to save it.
...t in a good way. Floral honey and toast on the underweight nose. Fades on the palate finishing short and grapefruit tart.
All the things a vintage brut should not be.
1990 Mumm Cordon Rouge
Nothing ...
I bought grape juice Cabernet Sauvignon (it was on sale in Canadian Superstore), added yeast. Gravity was 1076. After 12 days bubbling stopped and when I rechecked gravity, I found it about 994. Ho
...but works well. I usually use it after bentonite for wines that are pretty devoid of color like a white grape fruit wine or maybe even a chablis from a concentrate. Red wines I stay away from the stu...
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