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cointreau Thanks! Would love to have your recipe for the cointreau (my husband loves Grand Marnier). Most of the recipes I have seen call for vodka and I am pretty limited to using rum as it is the only affordable (and decent tasting) alcohol here in Belize. I have also played around with...

Lime wine cooking I have a lime wine going also (5 gallons in secondary) as I have a lime tree next door (these are very small limes - almost like key limes). I believe it was Jack Keller's recipe, but took everyone's advice and added bananas as well, which I am now doing with every batch...

liquor making question Hi there I have just made a bottle of Kahlua (?sp) which is incredibly great I think it's better than the real thing. But am curious is I should add preservatives to it in case I don't drink it for a while. I did use K meta on the equipment / bottle. here's the recipe...

liquor making question Hi there I have just made a bottle of Kahlua (?sp) which is incredibly great I think it's better than the real thing. But am curious is I should add preservatives to it in case I don't drink it for a while. I did use K meta on the equipment / bottle. here's the...

glycerin question Are there any differences between what you can buy at the drug store and what the wine suppliers sell?

Playing outside the box A girl after my own heart - we love to experiment!

removing labels I boil water and fill up the bottles while soaking in soapy water. Many of them will come right off (50%) - others I have to scrape (45%) and then others I give up on as I don't like using chemicals like adhesive remover (5%)...

Sangria + port Peach schnapps is great in white wine sangria, however... Hey Tom - what if he turned it into a fortified wine? Just wondering.... I am doing a port wine "test" on one gallon of my plum/ banana ending it's 5th day in primary. The taste is just soo good, I decided to try...

Fruit prep Other than limes (which I juice), I chop up or mash the fruit by hand, freeze it and then thaw it prior to starting the fermentation if you think that could be the difference....

fruit wine Early on I wine just with fruit - Mangos (almost 2 yrs ago) that didn't have carbonation. Then after several bad batches of mango and pineapple I switched to concentrates, which just turned out "OK". Now I have graduated into using mostly fruit with grape concentrates and am...

De gassing I have never done this (this part is lacking in most recipe guides I have seen) and have only occasionally tasted any carbonation. Is there something I am doing wrong? I do agitate a lot in the primary and usually splash well with rackings (although some say you should limit the...

fermentation challenges The SG has gone down a little (from 1.1 to .9), so I added the 1/2 vitamin. Cross your fingers for me :?

Yeast Nutrient questions Hi Wade I got overly ambitious and started yet another batch without having the nutrient. It is slow going - this one is plum (natal - tart like cranberries) with bananas and 1/4th vitamin. SG 1.0 range. Yeast is moving slow (I did use campden tabs this is a 3...

Vitamin Great - Thanks Wade! It is just 2 days into primary and the yeast is just way slower than norm. I added 3/4 of the tablet, since it is 5 gallons.... The yeast immediately started going crazy! What are the ingredients that are working? How is nitrogen supplied? I'm obviously not a...

Need yeast nutrient substitute Hi guys Just read the post regarding this since I find myself low on yeast nutrient. This batch is tropical fruit with 10 bananas or so (5 gallon) and the yeast seems to be slower than usual (I have made this recipe 2 other times with the nutrient). Should...

Wow Wow - who knew what you could do with zest? Seriously though, I am going to try that very very soon. Like I said, the tree has many many limes still hanging there :) Yes - the rice wine was icky and smelly most of the time - it has cleared fairly well now and is improving, but still...

lime tree yes - the limes are in clusters like grapes and there are many more! What do you think about the zest? I have even seen recipes that, if I am reading correctly just call for the zest - not even the fruit juice!. Can that be true? Grapefruit and Kiwi sounds great together! Can't...

Lime Wine Hi Allie On my Lime wine I used 150 limes (they are small) and froze them first to get more juice which netted nearly 1 gal. The recipe had the zest optional, so I left it out this time (didn't want bitterness). Of course I also added bananas with skins to the mix and 2 cups of...

Mango and banana wine Yes - thanks for asking! The mango / banana/ pineapple (+ white grape juice) is clearing nicely. My banana / riesling combo I started around the same time (this is the one I was worried about). They are progressing almost at the same pace - both of these had off...

Spitroast? Is that like a barbecue? I don't add any sugar to the liquor - just the fruit and shake it up every time I think about it.... I haven't added glycerin, but you can. Rum is cheap here and pretty good, so that's why I'm using it instead of vodka. I will have to list out my wines...