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Made a caramel apple mead recently. Turned out good. Here are some pictures. November 16th - pitched yeast November 21st - into secondary December 1st - racked and stabilized (on the left) January 10th - bottled

I planted a Toka plum this spring. Wondering if you have another plum tree nearby or not. Toka are supposed to be self fertile…I hope that’s the case. How did your wine ferment? Did it go dry? Any pictures you can post so we can see the color?

Yeah I agree wooden is not the best. I will probably switch mine to a SS spoon as I do have a long one.

Just pitches yeast into a 2gal batch of pear wine. First time making pear wine.

A lot of the bubbles that you see when punching down the must is just trapped bubbles not necessarily new, active fermentation bubbles. If it has been fermenting for a week already and down to 1.000 then I would go ahead and press. There has been enough skin contact. I wouldn’t want to risk...

I’m curious if anyone leaves their stirrer, whatever it may be, in the primary bucket during primary. I have been doing this for the last five batches and have not had any problems. I feel like it’s much easier and introduces less chance of bacteria getting in than constantly taking it out and...

I was very surprised on how much flavor and color the wine had with only 9lb of wild blueberries. I was thinking probably due to the berries being in for so long and also the sweetness of the wine. I feel like recreating their recipe on a 1 gallon scale alongside another batch made with my own...

They do not back sweeten. My thought was that their fermentation does not go to completion and like you said some fermentation happens in bottle after they bottle out the wine. Perhaps that’s why they use two yeast packets as well. To try and get their fermentation a little further since they...

Met a couple on the 4th of July that brought over a homemade bottle of blueberry wine to the party. Got to talking and this is what they told me about their recipe and procedure. Ingredients list 9lb frozen wild blueberries 12.5lb sugar Water 1 packet Red Star Premier Classique 1 packet Red Star...