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It started as a recipe from Terry Gerrys book, p. 90, Sal's Blueberry wine... it turned into 4.5 lbs of fresh blueberries from a friends farm, a nice mix of sweet and tart. 5.5 lbs of wildflower/white clover honey a mix of leftovers I had laying around. 9.5 pints of water, I started by...

I had a recipe I loved but lost it. I have been looking at recipes for a few hours now and this is what I have come up with after a few batches. 20 cups of coffee, each pot was brewed with 9 heaping tablespoons of grounds. I have tried it with instant my wife and I prefer the grounds by...

So since today was another one of those silly end of the world things, I'm going to start a cider. On hand I have 5 gallons of motts, rather bland cider by the taste of things but better than using cheap old walmart AJ maybe.. Frozen concentrates many of them, I think I'll throw in a few...

the local place got hammered by the early warm weather freeze, they lost the whole crop, they are outsourcing from other local growers but a gallon in 9.99 half gallon is 5.99.

so we made a batch of welches grape juice wine the first time we rushed it and were drinking it a few months after it was started and done. thought it was clear, it was not. 2nd batch we have been much more patient adjusted acid to taste and have given it time to clear and stabilized it...

for the heck of it i'm trying this, my wife likes the mikes strawberry margarita, so i'll make some hooch in a bucket add some margarita and strawberry concentrate and see how it goes over. if its half way decent i will do it properly and see how that experiment turns out. i have heard...

so my wife loves this new mikes she found and at 10 bucks a six pack i will attempt to clone it i guess. so far i'm thinking for a 1 gallon batch 1 frozen margarita concentrate 1 frozen strawberry daiquiri concentrate some light dme for that malty flavor and to bring up the sugar content...

ohh ya it sucked, right now i'm 3 ciders in the bag, 7 or 8 % not sure lost my fist hydro reading but their tasty, 5 gallons of apple juice 30 lb bag of pears from a perry i made.... any ways 13 year old step daughter, chore, dishes... took her 3 days and 3 trys still not done right.. had her...

My 3rd batch of wine and I want to sweeten it some this time. 27g of sugar per serving 6 servings per can for AJ concentrate. 5.7 oz of sugar per can. 20oz of sugar will raise it .0100 per 5 gallons. So I need 3.5 cans of AJ concentrate for .0100 boost correct? Do any of my numbers look...

Tried champagne yeast and wine yeast they were fine this time all I had around was coopers, I mixed it up at 3pm. I just checked the bottles and they are rock hard already only 9 hours. So I bagged them and put them in a cooler corner and in the morning I will put them in the fridge. I only...

my wife doesn't like much wine but i picked up this peach/white grape at walmart juice for the kid, i had her smell and taste it and said how about a wine? she said yes so i have a sample batch going, but i'm wondering how much acid blend to add, i'm still new to the game and learning how...

about 11 months, not exactly sure my son got a hold of my binder and tore out a page or 2... at bottling, i tasted and almost poured it out and checked to make sure the fingernail polish remover was still in the bathroom but it had a very nice citrus flavor that was quickly overwhelmed by...

Well I will start with the perry attempt. It's still clearing but we ended up adding AJ to it for more liquid. 65 lbs of pears that were picked and frozen. We "juiced" about half and ditched that idea. We had pear sauce. The other half we mashed up and put in a large straining bag added around...

i'm new and some how i overlooked the fact that you let pectic enzyme sit for 12 hours in the must, then pitch your yeast... yesterday i started up a gallon of welches wine just to experiment and again i forgot to wait, my question is will it still do the job just much slower during...

Enough to start a 5 gallon batch? I'm thinking about a few more lbs in secondary but for the moat part I'm worried about sg, I guess I will be flying blind I don't have a refractometer to measure the sugar in the pears is there another method? I'm paranoid as it's the first attempt but no...

At a friends house they have these growing in the side yard. I have look at a few pictures but a more expert opinion on what they are would be appreciated. They have a large arbor of concords we will be experimenting with this fall as well. The unidentified grapes are ready now in some...

This time I did 1 two liter of regular and one diet. I made a starter this time water 1/4 cup of sugar and 1/2 to 3/4 of a packet champagne yeast. It was good and alive for sure this time. New bottles I think my first bottles had sealing issues. They have the new style cap hope those work...

I figured this would be fun with the kids. Picked up a rainbow rootbeer concentrate and started a 1 gallon test batch today. Got a jug of spring water sanitized some old 2 liter bottles and a nalgene bottle spoons ect. Mixed the sugars and the yeast in the small bottle. Added the concentrate...

Hi there, i have lurked and in Feb. I started a batch of Apflelwein, then in March some JOAM. After reading a few books about wine making I have figured out Apfelwein is not quite what i'm trying to make so this went in the bucket last night 1.5 gallons of Sam's club AJ 1 packet of...

Hello everyone, I have always wanted to home brew and I found your site via google after a friend and I decided were going to get a kit and take a run at it. I also love hard cider and I again found EdWorts Recipe through google so i figured i should join and read and read and read you...