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Welcome hope you made it thru the hurricane ok. Lots of great knowledge here enjoy.

As the owner of a parrot that is funny as all get out good joke

Cat, the answer to your first question is yes it is ok to bottle at day ten. Provided you followed all the instructions. Number two is no if you followed the instructions you should be fine. Number three is depending on the amount of wine you are making and how big a tweak you want it could...

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4 gallons unsweetened pineapple juice. 64 ounces Activz coconut water power make two gallon 1 gallon water 14 pounds sugar 3 ½ teaspoons acid blend 2 teaspoons tannins 6 campden tablets 3 teaspoons pectic enzymes 3 teaspoons yeast nutrients 3 teaspoons yeast energizer 1 package port yeast This...

Richmke, Thanks for the information, I read that sorbate was not needed, I did add campdan tablets to the wine. It's good to get confirmation about that. Right now I am holding steady at 1.040 so I am waiting for the wine to clear. If it goes a little lower that would be fine. After...

WeimarWine, thanks for the input about trials. I have never done that before and will have to read up on it. Thankfully I have two weeks before the wine clears to do it in. If you have any information about trials I am all ears. Once again thank you. Hallie

Scooter68 thanks for the advice. I feel bad having only filtered 17 gallons of wine today and get my port ready. I like the way you work I think I will take a page out on your book and get something else going after my Dragon Blood gets into secondary. I will be making a sparkling lemon lime...

Well I got my dessert wine stabilized and clearing agent added. In about two weeks I will pull one gallon off the top and add my brandy to it. I am using strawberry rhubarb brandy to fortify my strawberry rhubarb wine. Waiting for it to mature is going to be the death of me. Thanks to...

Thanks for the info NorCal. About the oak how would you handle having only a gallon to work with? I was thinking about bottling as soon as I got the wine cleared and the brandy added. I was thinking that I would age it in the bottle for at least two years to give the brandy a chance to...

NorCal thanks for your input. That is my target too. I have 60% abv brandy and a 12% wine. Doing the math my 750ml of brandy will spice up a gallon of wine. Question, do I need special bottle for a port wine or dessert wine for that matter. Thanks for the help. Hallie

Well it John's it looks like I get my cake and can eat it to. I can make slightly more than 1 gallon of port and 5 gallons of dessert wine out of this 6 gallon mistake I made. God I love wine making I am still new enough that I get surprised each day. I get to make two things I never...

Johnd should I use the pearson square to figure out amount to add. I just happen to know where some strawberry rhubarb brandy is freshly made. What do you think? Thanks, Hallie

Bob thanks for the rePly do you know how much sorbate and kmeta to add to a 6 gallon batch?I don't have a recipe for this. Thanks, Hallie

Hi all, I have this strawberry rhubarb wine that I over sugared SG 1.150 my mistake. Anway the fermention is at SG 1.050 now and I think the yeast are about done with it. I just read about dessert wine and it said that the SG needs to be 1.040 or above. My question is could someone...

Day 15 of my over sugared wine. SG at 1.050 I added yeast nutrients and enegizer to help the yeast get the SG down as low as it can go. My question is what make a dessert wine? How low should the SG be? Thanks Hallie

Welcome to the forum alo t of great info here and nice people willing to help

Scooter68 is right in that regard. I bottled a watermelon wine that produced sediment after running though a filter and bottling. I am seriously thinking about unbottleing the whole batch running though a filter again and rebottleing. It's quite annoying. The thought of giving it away like...

Scooter68 thanks for the information. I must admit to some confusion over the increase volume issue thanks for clearing that up. Prior to sugar my SG was 1030. I did my math wrong for a 7 gallon must and add to much sugar. I was going for an SG of 1100 since I like strong wines. It's funny...

Dralarms, thanks for the rePly. I think I will follow your suggestion and add more fruit and a juice to make a second batch. Once again thanks alot