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I have done it several times with no problem at all.

I put back a dozen bottles for about 1 1/2 years it turned out quite good for a cheap throw together. The rest I opened here and there starting at 3 months. I want to say at about 8 months we really started liking it.

I am currently making the same brand kit in blackberry. The small bag; as in the same type as the larger juice bag, just smaller is a flavor pack. It adds the flavor and sweetens the wine as advertised, in your case red raspberry.

ok, thanks

I'm new to all of this so excuse me, but what are SNA's? Have you made this recipe before? How did it turn out if so? Is the strawberry or the banana the dominant flavor?

I am making a wine from a kit and was at the point of racking after fermentation has stopped; then I was to stir and degas the wine. I got distracted and stirred like crazy before racking the wine so it stirred up all of the lees in the bottom and put them back into suspension. My plan is to...

Not that I have near as long of a track record as Yooper but I have never manually degased a wine either, just lit it sit and do it on its own. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Amazon has several flavors that are similar to the Island Mist products referenced above, the brand is Cornucopia. The kits come with everything including corks, you just need the equipment.

I think if you give it 4-6 months minimum you will find the hot alcohol taste will have improved considerably.

If there are much better recipes give us an example of your favorite. Just making a statement like that is like complaining of a problem and not having a solution!

I tried a batch of this and a batch of the Hard lemonade and I have to say I thought the hard lemonade was much better. If you have not tried both give the other a try. I back sweetened both to taste and on the lemonade version I used additional concentrate with some sugar.

Well my first batch turned out great. I used cherry koolaid, lime concentrate, and splenda to finish it off. Made for a very tasty hard cherry limeaid!

Thanks for the info. DO I just add it once or does it go in at each racking?

I bought some sodium metabisulphite and the instruction on it say to use 1/4 tsp per 6 gallons. I am racking my cheap welchs red wine and want to add this and sorbate (1/2 tsp) so I can back sweeten it. The problem is I am only making 1 gallon batches. So how much do I use of this on a 1...

Give that a try but make a yeast starter with the new yeast to give it a good head start before pitching it.