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😀😀😀 Happy face! My first batch turned out great, my wife even likes it and she has enjoyed a glass of fine wine each day for several years now so I guess my wine is fine. I just ordered what will be my second batch and I’m hoping it turns out as well. Thank you all for the advice and no doubt...

I want to thank you all for your comments, suggestions and recommendations, they are all appreciated. All future additions to this will be appreciated as well. I continue to read all I can on the subject of wine making and I am learning something new each day but I still have a long long way to...

Here’s what I did; Day 1, per instructions Poured juice into primary fermentation bucket, topped off to the 6 gallon mark, took SG reading (1.100) sprinkled yeast and closed up with bubbler attached. Room temperature was 70 degrees. Day 4, Removed bucket lid and took SG reading, 1.080. Day 5...

My first ever batch of wine is in the final stages and yes, I made it from a kit. It is an $89 Merlot from Northern Brewer and no, I didn’t follow the directions to a T. I tried my best until the last step before racking it to the carboy for the final step before bottling. At this point the...

Many of the comments in this post might be a little discouraging to a beginning Brewster. Seems everyone here started out at the top of the heap instead of the bottom! How’d you all do that??