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I do what Scooter says - and I keep that carboy filled into the neck, and I get 5 bottles and a little bit left over to celebrate ;)

Have a batch of lemon lime with 2#/gal triple berry blend in it. It's not quite Skeeter pee but not quite dragons blood. Best of both in higher numbers. 23 oz Lemon/lime per gallon. 3236 + 3 = 3239

I add juice at the same time that I stabilize, though I usually add some extra lemon juice, the lime going in during fermentation. I do one cup lemon juice to 2 cups sugar and make a syrup out of it. If you add extra juice post clearing, you'll have to wait on it to clear again. Since Skeeter...

I checked my recipe, and while I did add tannin initially, the day after mixing the must my SG was sky high and I had to water it down quite a bit before pitching yeast, and I didn't add any additional chemicals. So I was degassing a bit yesterday and I added a touch more tannin with my...

My walmart only has the 100% grape :( I've seen many posts about other juices but apparently my Wally World sucks. I did find the white grape at another store..

I just bottled this one last night, it's about 2 months start to bottle. My SG was 1.100 so it's pretty darn hot so it's going to mellow in the bottle for a while. Not a bad wine, easy and cheap and good to get your feet wet - Welch's Frozen Grape Juice Wine 2 cans (11.5 oz) Welch's 100%...

After a stuck fermentation that I just couldn't get going again, I racked my second batch of skittles wine to carboy and added kmeta. I was slightly worried because the color was beginning to change, oxidation? Now, a few days later, my skittles is changing from a beautiful pink red to white...

Add more lemon juice in when you backsweeten. I make a syrup of 2 cups sugar to one cup (I think, my notes are at home) lemon juice per 3 gallons.

hehe yeah buying several! hubs just broke his, so we were down to mine.. as I was getting stuff ready, I said, omg it would be so awful to break my hydrometer now that we only have the one... well, of course, it broke. Hah! RIP Trusty First Hydrometer 2017-2017

My first batch lasted less than a week, not counting my little half gallon carboy which is still clearing itself, so I've started batch #2, hopefully a nice little labor day treat. :) I felt like the original recipe didn't have enough lemon in it, so this batch will have it upped a bit (used...

Hubby brews beer, I make wine. We each have our own equipment and ferment in different rooms. Hubby just had an infected batch of beer and was advised to pitch all his plasticware that touched it. Something about wild yeasts? I admit I know little about making beer. Is it safe for me to use? I...

True, but if, you say, break a bottle of wine (assuming in this example I own a winery), the time I put into it has nothing to do with its cost.

The amount of time put into it is meaningless, monetarily. As a sole proprietor of a small business, my accountant doesn't care if it takes ten minutes or ten hours - my time has no "value" in the terms of the product "cost."

*drool* wish I had a spare $100 for that toasted caramel, it sounds fantastic

*snort* :h

I stare at it a lot, like by the sheer power of my will, it will clear. lol

That batch I just bottled last night was six 750 mL bottles, and 7 32 ounce mason jars. I am down to one bottle and three mason jars, and I expect the rest of it to go this weekend. Sheesh!

My Popper wishes he was in a parade! Happy Independence Day!!!

I'm really happy with pbw

Bottled tonight, 28 days start to finish. I did kmeta, sorbate, degassing, sweetening, sparkolloid all at once.