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While I can say my 27 year old daughter has always disdained wine, preferring cocktails and beer, she is coming around! She lives in another state so doesn't get to try many of my wines, but has confessed she's learning to like wine. It was a sheepish confession, given her previously clear...

Thank you for this tip!! I only make gallons, and the math in getting kmeta right has about done me in (that's why I work with words, not numbers!). I've found ick growing in my carboys because I undermeasured kmeta, as I'm always afraid to add too much. This tip will save my wine!

I'm still new, only making wine for just over a year, but I've had some great success with some I've made. - Blackberry, my first last year. Very tart but very berry, aging in bottles to see how it finally turns out. -Rose petal back sweetened with honey. Outstanding, giving a new batch as...

I haven't tried to make a spiced apple wine yet, but I did make an outstanding spiced pumpkin wine using just 1 1/2 Tbs pumpkin pie spice in primary for my 1 gallon recipe. I also added sugar and chardonnay at 2 of the rackings, making it a sweet, spiced wine.

I go to a local winery at the end of a weekend day, and leave with a minimum of 2 cases of bottles. I wash with blue Dawn and a bottle brush, then soak in OxyClean in hot water to cleanse and help remove labels. Rinse thoroughly, quick blast with StarSan and let them dry. I store upside down...

The spray I get at Lowe's works when sprayed on the buds and flowers. This year a particularly aggressive doe, who won't even run from my dog and me working together, ate buds ready to flower, even leaving the pistil behind one one of them! Argh. The thing about the spray, though, is you have...

Well, you ignited the wine fever in me. I remembered I sprayed capsaicin animal repellent on all of mine as they were developing, and my heart sank - no wine this year. Then I remembered my best friend has a a ton of oranges - in fact, she gave me mine - and she doesn't spray since she lives...

I am inspired by this! I have probably 20 varieties of day lilies and they are still blooming but just past their peak. I'd love to try this this week. I have a lot of the double oranges, and google says they're edible too. The deer especially think they're edible. 🙄 Did you use a ton of...

Milky spore works well, in my experience. And, I know people hate the beetle bags, but I have to say I've had success with them. They have to be thought of as more of a preventative than an instant solution. We live in the middle of 21 acres, so no neighbors' gardens to pull the beetles into...

You will need to wait for the wine to completely clear before back sweetening. Once it is completely clear, as in it's been racked, likely 3 or 4 times, and there is no sediment after a few weeks, I usually stabilize, wait a week or so to make sure the yeast is dead, then back sweeten. If the...

Hello, everyone! Looong time lurker and knowledge gatherer, but I'm making my first post here because I love rose petal wine! I use organic food grade dried petals, and make a tea with them. You can bag them and put into primary for a few days, too. For topping off, I've had success with...