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Well I'll be danged if the gallon bottle with the added concentrate and chardonnay just started bubbling again. I had it on the heating strip for awhile and nothing, now just hanging around the kitchen I notice it is bubbling the airlock frequently. I'll wait for a day or two and try and start...

Chardonnay won't restart I added the yeast but the gallon bottle is strangely quiet. I don't think I'll try to restart again unless I check the acidity and it was way off. Otherwise, I could start yeast using some concentrate and water and then try adding it to the jug when it is really going...

Restarting Chardonnay Hmmm, all good advice above. Reason I racked was that it hadn't done anything too much for days. My theory is that it had stopped for some reason, even before I racked it. I did it last as it was the last wine I put on this season so I didn't rack it any too soon. The...

I could use a little experience-based advice on this carboy. I'm making Chardonnay from California juice...started at 1.09 and has been at 1.01 in a carboy for 7 days in my cool room. Doesn't 1.01 seem a little too sweet to finish up a Chardonnay? So...just moved it back to the kitchen and...

Dannie here from Vancouver Island in British Columbia-we're thin on the map out west! Wine has taken over my pantry and, for the past two months, my life! Getting up in the middle of the night to stir my batch of banana wine :db has brought a smile to my face because the plastic cover looks like...

Funnily enough, I just boiled up 12 lbs of bannanas and added juice from 2 pineapples to make wine. I would be a little careful about adding too much more water as I'm convinced that the boiled water from the bannanas has a thickish texture that may obscure the specific gravity (just like...