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Hear me out So those indistinct berries you always see on bushes and trees but don't pick them because you know that they're poisonous. Holly berries to name one, but there's a bunch of different kinda. Would fermenting them into wine make them edible? Would the yeasts potentially metabolize...

I'm confused as to why this would leave the wine vulnerable to microbes as opposed to back-sweetening? I've read that sweet wines are more finicky with aging in general, i thought that was just because sugars make it easier for microbes to exist in it anyway. Also it seems to be fermenting quite...

Ok, the must is currently fermenting, I kinda did my own thing, partly because I don't have a lot of the equipment, partly because I have weird tastes, and mostly because I have no idea what I'm doing. I'll just post exactly what I did in the form of a recipe. 10lb white grapes, 10lb red...

I already did post pictures of the grapes in another thread, and I wanted ferment both of them without the skins because they all have white mildew on them.

Never made grape wine before, though I have made berry wine and cider. This'll be my first. I've gathered a bunch of grapes that my neighbor let me pick from their vine, about a half and half mix of white and red grapes, about 20lb in total I think. As I figured out in an earlier thread I think...

Alas my freezer will never not be full of things to be made into wine.....

I was thinking just mashing them and then using one of those metal cooling racks to sift the skins a part from the meat and seeds. I'm fine with those parts being in the must.

Got a bush of lavender and I don't know what to do with it. I made some extract but I also don't know what to do with that. Thinking I might make it into wine, also thinking I might just add it to mead, even thinking about using it in beer. Might even use it in my dogwood berry wine that I...

Just picked a bunch of these, after I'm done making my first grape wine I'm going to make a wine out of these. I also live near some trees that have the other kind of dogwood berry, the smaller red ones, I was thinking of just combining the two into a mixed dogwood berry wine. I'm also thinking...

Asked a winery, a recycling center, a few restaurants, two breweries, none had any, and eventually the meadery I asked had some for me. Phew.

Yep. It's really funny putting "2022" and "Since 2022" on the same label.

Give me your used bottles! I live in the fremont area. Any sizes will do, any shape, any color, but if you have those short 375ml ones I'd especially love those. I don't have a car but I can come and pick up what I can and haul it back on the bus. Don't worry about cleaning them. I'll even pay...

Oh, @jayohessaich I'm also interested in the goods, particularly any carboys/bottles you have. Are the items still for sale?

Been a few months since this comment. Any progress with the winemaking group? I'd love to join one too—all the groups i can find in the area are all about beer

Sorry it took so long to respond, I've been busy making cider in the meantime. These are the grapes, maybe yall can help me identify them with these too. I think I'll go with the rose idea @ChuckD provided anyway though. And a white with the green ones.

Well, to me it isn't about making good wine or bad wine, it's about making any wine at all. I do not and have never had access to any fresh grapes like this and I want to use it.

Just on the berries yes. In the original post I speculated on what kind of grape it is, pretty sure it's concord. I've also heard that the white stuff is actually wild yeast? But it also does have other symptoms of mildew like splitting.

A very friendly neighbor graciously let me harvest their grape vine since they weren't using it, which is awesome. However, since they weren't taking care of it, the grapes have some pretty widespread powdery white mildew on them. I washed them with water before freezing them but it's difficult...

Was recommended I join this site through homebrew talk. Though I'm primarily concerned with wine I've never encountered this site weirdly.