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When I make some of my wine I like it a little sweet without backsweetening so I add enough sugar for 15% wine it will work the yeast all the way out and give me a little sweetness at the end.Same difference would work if you would add liqour to your wine if it got above the tolerance the yeast...

just put on another batch of this stuff it is great to make and drink while my other wine ages in the carboy

i didnt backsweeten mine i mixed it with spite turned out ok

nope its someone that doesnt have all the means but at all the same time has enough smarts to make something drinkable enough to enjoy been there done that my hats off to you

my thoughts is that it helps oxides the wine therefore helping the yeast also with the flavor of the wine, i dont stir it daily but i do about every 2to 3 days good luck!story is that the old timers stirred it everyday but i used to go to the cellar with them we also test tasted it everyday...

i remember making wine and placing it in a 2 liter bottle after 30 days took it over to the local honky tonk had to keep stopping on the way to let the pressure off the bottle got there with it we drank it even though it was very tasty didnt make no difference but everything comes with time may...

just sweeten my 5.5 gal batch with sugar it tasted just as good as backsweeten with cont. you can still taste the peach at the end

looks fine to me thats how i started with 2 liter soda bottles many moons ago also used bread yeast in the beginning, some was drinkable some not some drank way to soon

im in

Finished it off just took off a batch of skeeter pee another batch of this is next ive already got it cooking

oh well i may be wrong but i use whiskey bottles for my wine with the plastic tops in between to seal it with very little trouble for years ive never corked my wine,i do cap some of my hard lemonade and ect.

sounds like it came out ok ,the wife wanted to try the strawberry daiquiri and margariti sounds like it all turned out well ,i may start another batch today

1394 plus 11 = 1405 done in the carboys

nope i made pear wine which i got to sweet then to fix it i made some grape welches really dry and mixed it didnt turn out well so i backsweetened with the tropical punch sweeet koolaide mix to taste made it drinkable in other words i used it to cover up 2 mistakes not for just the welches and...

it seems like i used lAvin 1118 and still couldnt get it to past 1.010 so when i added the frozen con. i just added it to what ever the con.said to add and the wife liked it but it was to sweet for me although her friends liked it as well good luck, looks like ive got to make another batch to