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you can use an old coffee jar to make starter bottles, basically, you put in some liquid (part of the must) I tend to deliberately keep some un dissolved sugar in the bottom, to prolong fermentation, basically u use a small amount to activate your wine, its very handy if your making a few...

an old post resurrected, you could use sorbate as well, which would limit its shelf life, personally I always go over 10% because of preservation issues, with almost everything I ferment.

Supping a Raspberry/Blueberry wine, it must be ok because it inspired me to log in here and vouch for it ;-)

Sounds good to me ;-)

Schatzie, just so your aware mango wine is one of my favourate wines, however they do tend to drop quite a bit of sediment over quite long time periods, much longer than most things ive fermented (up to several months) youll also, very likely notice a lot of sediment at the bottom of your...

Merry Christmas everyone ;-)

Merry Christmas and welcome. On top of equipment, you`ll also need to allocate yourself a storage area. Hope you enjoy the new found hobby ;-)

Again the photographer seems to have fallen over from too much wine! Yer but hopefully its allowed on here ;-) Im drinking a lovely home made red kinda similar to a merlot, which Ive bottled in an old calvet 2012 merlot bottle, which incidently I found enjoyable as well.

making tasting notes on some of my now aged wine, yer, am also am getting drunk at the same time lol

Ive kinda made similar stuff (Im living in the uk) there isn't much available in the way of grape juice locally by me although I kinda prefer white I can get the ingredients for a red far more easily, although I cant get much in the way of white grape their is 2 veg shops close by, so ive kinda...

Hi Steve and welcome. Take your time on the first wine, avoid black flies, cover the top and keep everything clean, hope you enjoy the journey. Phil.

I`ve actually tried to answer any questions directly on the original post, but, ive learned this about bananas ;- 1). best used, when they are ripe (ie) ready for eating, which maximises sugar content. By this I mean, at the state of maturity you would have eaten them at, ie mostly yellow...

In two words "no worries"

well crazy as this sounds, i made a real banana added to tropical fruit and apple juice, one litre of each to one gallon, the result was kinda nice, but, was lacking something I wanted in there, scratching my head wen I had had a few, I added some ground nutmeg, the results was actually very...

hopefully it will perk up, ill add the old recipies I have, to the above post when I can get around to it.

at 0.092 its done congrats ;-)

The added nutrient I think was a good idea, because there isn't any fruit in there, it may also be lacking in trace nutrients maybe, if it doesn't take off. I have some old recipies, for tea wine, from books, which ill dig out and add at the end. its my understanding that yeast requires...

Some of my cherry and some of my banana wine.

some interesting things of note, if any of you guys research individual grape varieties, there are known, flavours of other fruits associated with certain grapes, this isn't just associated with grapes either for example, some fruits have hinted flavours of others once fermented, its what makes...

Personally I find the use of hydrometers a bit quirky, due to the following ;- 1). firstly if your taking an initial reading and there is fruit in the primary, the fruit in the primary wont be factored into the reading, although it will contribute towards the final alcohol content. 2)...