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Hoping to bottle my Marquette from last September soon to make room in the carboys for this year’s batches. First attempt at “real” red wine. Grape selection was not very judicious, literally went with the only vineyard I could find that would sell me a small lot (100ish lbs) of grapes. Grapes...

My marquette from last fall is coming along nicely. However, I attempted a 3 gallon batch of second run/false wine off of the pulp which is not faring so well. From a sanitation perspective it’s perfectly sound, nothing off about it. From a taste perspective, it’s severely lacking. It tasted at...

After pressing my 110 lbs of Marquette grapes and proceeding with malolactic fermentation and oaking I put a 3 gallon batch of second run/false wine to go on the grape skins. I’ve since pressed this batch and it is in the carboy clearing as I write this. I can’t find much information online...

Hi all, I’m about to pitch the yeast tomorrow on my first batch of red wine from fresh grapes. I picked up a load of what turned out to be 110 lbs of Marquette grapes, crushed, destemmed and sulfited them, and other than tweaking with sugar and acid levels I am almost ready to pitch the yeast...

Here’s one for you. Any advice is, as always, greatly appreciated. Racked my country wine (5 gallons of danger Dave’s dragons blood) to a new carboy and added the K meta and K sorbate, appropriately dosed, at the end, mixed in with a little bit of extra wine I had set aside. I should have just...

Sorry guys, another one of *these* threads. Cyser has been in secondary nearly 2 months, transferred after spending about 4 weeks in primary. Had forgotten about it for a while, took a peek tonight. There’s a thin layer of what at first looked like white foam on top, when I took a closer look...

(accidentally posted this in the cider recipes forum as well) Well, it’s a difficult day folks. It’s the day that I have to own up to my arrogance and naivety. Today I had to dump the rest of my sweetened, carbonated and bottle pasteurized experimental berry cider from last winter that I never...

Well, it’s a difficult day folks. It’s the day that I have to own up to my arrogance and naivety. Today I had to dump the rest of my sweetened, carbonated and bottle pasteurized experimental berry cider from last winter that I never really cared for anyway. Something went wrong, sanitation...

Posting this here rather than the wine forum. Has anybody successfully done the Pappers sweetening/bottle carb/stovetop pasteurization method with skeeter pee? I swear I’ve searched the entire internet and this forum and can’t seem to find any success stories. One anecdote about getting very...

Hi all, Just put my first batch of skeeter pee to go, I’m very excited. I have read many good things about it. One small question, I’m still pretty new to all of this and can’t seem to find any information on this. For those of you familiar with the skeeter pee recipe, it advises to vigorously...

Well, another newbie question, guess you learn a lesson on every batch when you’re starting out. I honestly thought I had all the basics down. Have been very intentionally buying a 6 pack of bottled beer to drink every weekend with the added benefit of being able to save the bottles for reuse...

Hi all, I want you all to know that I really appreciate all the advice that has been offered in my first few months on this forum. I had done a tiny bit of homebrewing about a decade ago but forgot all that I had learned. After having an epiphany and picking way too many apples last fall and...

Hi all, I had asked the same question in a different thread but it might have gotten lost in my post, thought for sure somebody might have some experience or opinions on this so I’ll try once more. Have seen many methods but think I have a basic plan in place. Started a cider on Friday with 5...

Happy Thanksgiving! Well thanks to all the generous input from this forum, my first cider turned out nicely, certainly something to be thankful for. It isn't perfect, but certainly drinkable and what's more, my wife has been drinking it. These 5 gallons won't last for long, it's time to start...

Hi all, thanks for all the help you’ve given me thus far with my cider, and for your patience. Hopefully this will be my last new thread started for a while until I start my next brewing project. One more burning question to ask for now... I’m curious, does anybody have a tried and tested...

Thanks to all again for all the advice and tips thus far! Cider has been in primary for about two weeks. OG about 1.050, current SG about 1.001. Racked to secondary this evening, realized I’d made a rookie mistake, had about 5 gallons of cider, didn’t realize that my carboy is meant to hold...

Thanks all for your helpful replies to my question about pressing without a press. For my relatively small amount of apples (10 or so gallons, about 40 lbs) I ended up using a juicer to process them and it yielded about 2.5 gallons of juice, which I topped off to 5 gallons with pasteurized...

Hi all, thanks for having me on your forum. Had brewed a few batches of beer about a decade ago with a lot of help from lurking on this forum, each batch better than the next but fell out of the hobby for many years and unfortunately most of the knowledge I accrued then seems to have left me...