grapes

bentonite
... packet of the stuff. Like I said worst case scenario you have to wait longer. With red wine from crushed grapes you don't even need to clarify you just let gravity do it's work....
apple wine
ya grapes are forgiven, to do fruit u have to have a little more understanding of what u want to do. i have had luck with "red pastur" yeast , a temp above 70f and some yeast nutrient. b...
has anyone made mulberry wine
...me but beings I was in a hurry I opted not to bother, but is sounded good. I am eyeing a lot of wild grapes that are growing like crazy around here. I hope they remain healthy until harvest time...
Sweetening wine after the ferment is over
...quality will mellow with the addition of 'sweet'. Then I will have something to drink while my grapes take their time ripening. Yea! Oregon Wine Rocks!...
Should you check/adjust PH at every racking?
... the PH and total acidity of the wine before you try to adjust anything. In reality if the juice was from grapes you may not even have to adjust it, but that totally depends on how the grapes were pro...
Isit better to filter wine mechanicaly or by finning
It totally depends on what you are making. A red wine made from grapes just needs time and a couple of rackings. White wines and some fruit wines need finings of some type sometimes. Filtering is a po...
making wine from welch's
...nce 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...
not fermenting!!!!
...uestion has probably been asked before, but I do not know how to find it in the search forum. We crushed grapes, made grape juice, and then froze it for the winter, when we went to Fla. Came back in...
Good red wine recommendations ...
...tainless 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,...
Thinking about getting my parents into this
Well in the US grapes or fresh juice is available September mid to early october. Paying attention to that takes about two weeks, then a racking about a month or 2 later. Bottling in april-july after ...
Mead
I am kind of new here but also raise bees and this year I decided to make mead. Made some with concord grapes and it came out great. Have five gallons to bottle tonight of Cyser, and althouh it is p...
New Kit and Setup
...ucrose which yeast have more trouble metabolising than the fructose and glucose sugars you mainly find in grapes, but that is your choice. The most important things for you are quality ingredients, hy...
Have you ever heard about Moldavian wines ?
...Y told me that Negru de Purcar is one of the best high quality wine made up from the following species of grapes. and i found this wine(this and you could pm me about it) here . pls if some body kno...
Bottle Size
Reply inline below. No, as long as you are using beer bottles capped with crown caps. These come in many sizes, but all take the same size cap. Hmmm, I'll correct myself. There are two crow...
Added Capden tablets and fermentation stopped...What can I do?
what volume of wine are we talking? also, when you say fresh grape juice do you mean you bought grapes and pressed the juice out or you just bought grape juice? and you didn't add yeast?? didn�...
Need advice on Mead
...iate any advice Had lots of apples this year so the cyser was an easy decision. Also picked enough grapes for a couple gallons of grape juice, topped it off with welch's concentrate. This...
fermentation questions
...ill go very dry and end around .992 It might be easier for you if you get a straining bag and keep the grapes in it that way. If you are making 5 or 6 gallons its all you need to do, then you can s...
newbie winemaker looking for advice
...all. Good luck on your new hobby or shall I say 'obsession'. I have been making wine from grapes for many years but still learn something new every day. Now, at age 65, I am planting ...
Buying high proof brandy to make fortified wine
...t; Hi Clyde - Holyfield Winery, in Basehor Kansas, make a great tasting port from Leon Millot and Foch grapes. Les uses the high alcohol brandy that is discussed in this thread and he stops fermen...
Recommendations for a good cider yeast
...or a less dry with a little more apple taste to it this time. I realize that wine doesn't taste like grapes & beer doesn't taste like wheat so hard cider doesn't taste just like app...
French Wines Vs Califorinan Wines
...e same can be said for California wines. With all of the different regions in the US where they grow wine grapes I think the greater variety and quality of wine resides here in the US, ever since the ...
Does any one know about a good wine Ebook?
... I open it. If you are interested in making traditional grape wines and do not live near a supply of wine grapes, you don't make it from the stuff you buy at the supermarket, kit wines are a good...
Wine tasting with acclaimed John Martini
New York City’s Best New Beer Bar does Grapes too The Village Pourhouse, voted New York City’s best new beer bar, will host a wine tasting on Thursday, July 19th, led by John Martini, owner of the aw...
Cleaning SS beer kegs
Well, I'm a homebrewer, so that's where I got the habit from, to be sure. As far as I know, it should be fine, if it is indeed used properly. After all, when you drink wine out, I'd gua...
a little help on the finishing process
...ttles. This is not always the case but it is a pretty good rule of thumb. I make a ton of fruit wine when grapes are not in season. Depending on how much lees are in the carboy you may want to rack f...
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF I CAN PURCHASE SOME WINE AND HOW I C...
...the same price. You might want to try making your own wine, it's a rewarding hobby, can be done with grapes or concentrates and can even be done from a "kit...
Does Champagne go bad?
... eyes of the great mass of consumers. If Joe Public has no idea that Chablis (a wine made with Chardonnay grapes near the town of Chablis in France) is a fine wine, their image of the name will be col...
Home wine making
You are doing everything right Bob, just lack the patience, but it will come. Wine is a long process, you cant expect anything a couple of months old to be "good", and you are never going to...
What is Rum/Cognac
...shorrt try at it: Rum is spirit made from sugar cane. Cognac is triply-distilled spirit made from wine grapes from the general southwest of France. Fine rums are excellent sipping spirits. Cogna...
Scotch Tasting Parties
...yle, red is rounded and the blush can be in a more "restaurant" style glass. I like to serve grapes, dried apricots, unsalted almonds, good cheeses(hard&soft), etc. Again have only a ...
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