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I am using my first island mist Black raspberry kit. I am going to do this in the FastFermenter. I have pounded YouTube HARD trying to figure out how to do kits in this thing.... I have it going now with the 1118. In about 5 days it should be ready to rack... Please advise how you would...

Anybody have a good log sheet they use for their wines? Or perhaps no the name of a good Android Wine App?

Sharing my Story here... So I have a batch of REAL strawberry wine going. Berries were on sale for like $1.20/lb. I put about 16lbs of berries in it... added sugar (cant remember amount... think it was a Jack Keller Recipe that called for 12lbs) I am doing a 6.5gal batch. After 1 week...

Any of you have an App you recommend for wine making?

Standard 750ml bottle...or approx 25oz of goodness....how many "glasses" of wine? I vote 3. :tank:

How you able to buy sugar for? I found a place I can buy it in bulk. $23/50lb bag. Comes to .46 per pound.

Think I can sub out the Sparkolloid for Bentonite? I have no Sparkolloid but plenty of Bentonite. Summer is coming... time to make the hard lemon aid.

Ok so my buddy has a LOT of Mulberry trees around his house. He said come an get all I want when they are ready. I figured I would go for enough to do 6gal of wine. I have heard that there are worms in Mulberries. BUT then I found this post.... and.... well it kind of makes sense to me...

I know wine will only take so much tannin. I have 6g of strawberry going. I put 1tbl spoon of Tannin in it. Should have been 1/2tbl spoon. Any guess on the result of this? I know the win looks a bit on the brown side. Figure most of that will drop out later?

How often do you make a batch of this? I make it just to have something fast to drink now and then... a dinner wine...or just to hang out with the friends. I have found.. I really like this stuff and it is fast and cheap.

Berries are on sale. $1/lb I grabbed 30lbs. Berries are OK. Not super sweet...were kind of picked early. I know I cant let t hem just "sit" to ripen more so Im gonna use what I got. Seems to be 3lbs/gal of wine. So I got enough to do 10gal. Question is..... I was thinking of...

So I have a batch of Welches Grape going. Started it and after about a week it looked like the fermentation was done. I racked it. Topped it off with a lil juice (yes I know this would start it back up some). Then it went CRAZY! It came out the air lock even... made a mess (first time this...

I have no juicer. I have an entire case of palisade peaches... ..how do i juicem for wine?

Think these are ok?

Made 6.5 gallons of this.... during the first 2-3 of fermentation, somehow the towel sunk down and made contact with the wine.....soaked the towel. I let it keep going. Took towel off put lid on with air lock. What are chances that nothing nasty got into it? This is my first "batch" of...

My project has turned out well....not too sure yet. I kept towel over the bucket. Kept watching it for activity..... Got to about 1.2 so I dumped the rest of my juice in (lime) and more energizer and nutrient. Misse the 1.5 reading. I have been whisking the crap out of it 2 times a day...

Those of you do the frozen concentrates… Do you have a rule of thumb you follow for wine body? I.E. 2 cans per gallon for light, 3 cans per gallon for med and 4 cans per gallon for full? Assuming it is all straight the same flavor. Not mixing. AND does this change depending on the...

Any try this? How did this turn out compaired to NON carbonanted?

I want to take a second to thank Yooper for all she has done in these threads. I feel I have advanced from "NOOB" to "Novice" thanks to her guidance on many threads. I am now on my 4th batch of wine.... each batch has been better than the previous thanks to her and others who have helped guide...

What are the best kind of bottles to recycle.... Can Budlight bottles work in the capers?