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A friend just gave me permission to pick all the white grapes I want. I'm not sure what kind they are but know his grandmother used them for wine in the past. I do not have any kind of press and need to decide what to do about that. My question is : can I leave the skin on the white grapes...

Now I see a problem I am going to have when I move my other batch from primary to secondary. I do not know what my starting gravity was. It has been sitting 5 days. I realize now that it's gonna be a problem. What should SG be after a week? I have 3/4 gallon blackberries and 1 lb sugar in the...

My SG is 1065. Now what

Thought they might be of some other use too. I can go to Lex. and get one but it's 30 miles. Will it have good instructions? Like what the SG should be at different stages. I really haven't seen many numbers on what is too low and too high or how to fix either

I am getting a hydrometer tomorrow. Would wal mart have one? If not I gotta drive 30 miles away. I saw SG earlier and assume that's starting gravity or specific gravity. What should SG be at start and when sould samples be taken? Should it stay the same throughout or change? The only...

Does a warm place make yeast work better/faster? If so how warm is too warm? The garages are actually hot

I have 3 options on a place for this to ferment. Could someone give me the best and worst of these 3? 1) a cellar under my house 2) a garage that rarely sees light 3) a garage that's opened daily Neither garage has H.V.AC

My recipe is one that I got online after looking at many. I went with this. 3lb blackberrie 6cups sugar Red star all purpose wine yeast 1)I put the berries in a fermenting bag and crushed in a 5 gal bucket. 2) 1qt boiled water poured over bag. 3)Boiled 6 cups water with 2 cups sugar...

I added yeast 2 hrs after campden tablets. I thought I may have killed the yeast I added but I just checked and it's starting to work.

I am new to this but I love it already I am currently making my first and second batch. The first is 3 weeks in and the other 18 hrs. 1) how important is a hydrometer? From the looks of things, very. Can I get by without it? 2) when should campden tablets be added to must? I added them...

I'm a 30 something male who has never made a bottle of wine. I have thought about doing so in the past and never did. A few weeks ago blackberries were plentiful. I left a gallon jug half full on the counter overnight the next morning it smelled like wine. So I thought I would give it a try. I...