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Hello So today I went ahead and bottled my first ever wine. I did forget to add metabisulfite just prior to bottling. I did add metabisulfite approximately two weeks ago during clearing. Did I just screw it up, or is the addition I made two weeks ago good enough?

What should be the target S.G. I should aim for before I rack my wine into secondary fermenter?

So three days ago I put my first ever wine into primary fermentation. This is a 23L (6 gallon) wine kit. As I was tweaking with the sugar contents to get it closer to 1.090, I boiled some water and added sugar to the water to make a concentrate, cooled it off, and then I added it to the must...

Hello So yesterday I put my first ever cabernet sauvignon to primary fermentation. Yay! I have the primary fermenting bucket inside a chest freezer, and with that chest freezer I use an InkBird ITC-308 temperature controller set to 23 degrees celcius (about 73 F). I have the differential set to...

Hello Which methods are you using to vigorously stir the wine during primary fermentation to bring enough oxygen into the wine? I feel like stirring with the stirring spoon isn’t doing the job properly. Tips and ideas? Also I am new to winemaking and just sat my first wine to ferment! Really...

Hi! Tried to dryhop my extract brew with the hop pellets in a hopbag so that I would strain out most of the sediment from the hops, but there seems to be very weak hop aroma to the beer. Does the hops in a bag reduce the effect? Should I have just poured the hop pellets right into the brew? Will...

Hi! I have planned to bottle my batch tomorrow morning before work. I did forgot to get priming sugar, but have some carbonation drops laying around that I never used. Will it work if I crush them up, and dissolve it in hot water and adding it into the bottling bucket, and it will work just as...

Hi! I have a Roasted Stout-batch fermenting on day 3. The first days of fermenting the bubbling in the airlock was hefty, now its barely bubbling. Should I be worried?