Search results

Thank you, I won’t worry about it staining then. Thanks for your advice.

So do I or don’t I what would you do?

Hi I just received a NEW fruit press from EJWOX and am planning to use this for RED and WHITE wine. From the website: High Quality - Hardwood basket is made of red beech which is moisture and corrosion resistant. And breakaway basket that allows you to quickly remove the spent pulp between...

What winemaking supply store did you order from?

I have seen a hack to fill up head space by using glass marbels. Haven’t tried this but seems they would be easy to sanitize and would do the trick. Obviously you would need a lot of marbles and they are reusable. What do you think of this?

Rocky my bad yes Potassium Sorbate.

My thought is once you add Potassium Sorbate to your wine the yeasts are dead then back sweeten by adding simple syrup won’t affect ABV. WARNING only add a little Simple Syrup at a time with a good stir let sit for a bit then taste. If you obtain your level of desired sweetness stop. If you...

Hope it is an award winner!

WOW, posted a long time ago. Curious what did you do? Did you use the skin packs? Did you add raisins? Just curious why no body posted to help you.

I stopped by Winemakers and Beermakers supply of Westport road today. Spoke with a lady there and asked a lot of questions. If you have entered any wine at the fair good luck. AFW

No additional nutrients added. I will add my experience so far is with Wine Expert and juice buckets. I am going to do whole grapes this fall so my process might need to change. Reading now and taking on line course from wine maker magazine soon.

I just sprinkle the yeast on my must and leave it alone. Takes off slowly yes but by 3 rd day going vigorously. Haven’t had a stuck fermentation yet. I haven’t heard of GoFerm, starters or inoculation before not knocking these just showing my age ;)

Thanks for the Welcome! and thanks for your suggestions on obtaining wine grapes I will contact them and see how it goes. Cleveland maybe a bit too far. I do use Label peelers for some items and Listermans for juice. Louisville is where I grew up still have family I visit there so that could...

My name is Alan and I have been making different kit wines since 2006. I am newly retired and am interested in making wine from grapes and learning more. Just starting to looking into finding places that I can source 100 lbs of wine grapes. Anyone have places they source wine grapes in the...