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I am a beginner just starting to feel confident, but adjusting and "flying by the seat of my pants" is not something that I feel positive about. I think I may have salvaged the above fiasco, I diluted the original must and added more fruit to achieve a pH of 3.1 and TA of 6.7 gm/l. I pitched...

As Roseanne Roseannadanna would say, " Never mind". I found out I was using an old test kit (5+ years) and the instructions for my current test kit with different strength sodium hydroxide. So instead of TA of 5.4 gm/l it is 11.4 gm/l. What can I say, I'm old and obviously not very bright...

I thought I already posted this earlier today, but can't find it. I started this kit 8/16/22, at that time the pH was 3.6. Today I racked and added K Meta. The taste was a little flat so I checked the pH, today it is 3.8 (rechecked and checked calibration). Should I adjust it now or wait...

Started a 3 gallon batch of aronia berry yesterday. I mixed all of the ingredients and let is set overnight . This morning I checked the pH, 4.4, then checked TA 1.1 g/l. I wasn't really surprised about the ph, I had read that it was often to high, but no other wine I have attempted was this...

First let me say that I am not familiar with black currants; I think my summers are too hot for them to do well. To my knowledge I have not tasted them. I will also confess that my palate is not very refined, like most people I know what I like but often can’t tell someone why. The mead mostly...

A local restaurant sells the owners mead. My favorite is a blackcurrant, blackberry and black cherry, but so far he has declined to share his recipe. I am trying to create something similar. The following is a proposed recipe for a 3 gallon batch. 32 oz Black currant concentrate. (1:5 = 5...

thanks everyone. I, like many, usually scrounge my bottles from friends and a restaurant. Most are green/brown and I use these for the darker wines and clear ones for light colored wines which seems to be the recommended way. But maybe it doesn't matter as much as i thought. I just moved the...

What determines which bottles' a person should use. I know reds need colored bottles, I also use them for blackberry and elderberry and clear bottles for light colored meads. But what about other country wines? Peach? Strawberry? Cranberry? Aronia? The coffee dessert kit I am currently...

how much tannin?

thank you

Thanks for posting this and for answering my question about how much instant coffee in the tread I posted in the beginners section. how much Tannin? I see you added inverted sugar, What is the desired starting gravity? Mine was 1.120 without any additional. I will add1 tsp instant coffee to...

Can anyone confirm the amount of tannin and instant coffee to add to this Coffee Port Kit? I wanted to confirm the amounts but have spent the last 3 nights searching, I can find dozens of instances where @joeswine recommends adding both and even several pictures showing what to add but cannot...

My fermentation experience is a little bit backwards since I think most people start with kits. I started making meads and have only recently tried making wine kits. Recently I have made a RJS Amarone and FWK super tuscan forte, both aging in their carboys. I am soon going to start a RJS...

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There is increased pressure in the plastic bottle, but it’s only firm and not rock hard. Out of town for a couple of days, when I get back I’ll check it, and pull a cork From a bottle. If it is carbonation what’s the procedure? Pour into carboy, add sorbate and rebottle in a couple of weeks...

I recently bottled a strawberry/banana mead. I put the last bit into a plastic soda bottle and now can tell there is increased pressure in that bottle. If I pull the corks, what do I do afterwards? Add sorbate and wait? Just mix a 3 gallon dose of sorbate into 15 ml water and add 1 ml to each...

Keep us posted as to how it turns out. I haven’t started mine, looks like it may be November before i start

here's another resource file:///C:/Users/mfs3m/Documents/Jack-Keller-Complete-Requested-Recipes-Collection.pdf

Jack Keller pumpkin wine recipe. I have not made or tasted it so no recommendations, just found recipe. https://web.archive.org/web/20010422092605/http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques53.asp

Thanks for the assurance. Contacted label Peelers and they also thought it would be fine and assured me if it wasn't they would replace it.