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I leave my bag of pulp in until it reaches 1.03 then remove it and siphon over to the carboy. I always get a great color wine.

It's just the flavor difference. Regular cane sugar has a certain taste and corn sugar doesn't seem to add a taste to the wine.

Revisiting this post and my 2020 muscadine came out perfect. So just to confirm my post above, I will never use regular cane sugar again for making wine. I just started my 2021 muscadine and muscadine peach and used dextrose in both. The are cooking just fine and I can't wait to sample them.

I made a standard mix. 30lbs muscadines and filled the primary up to 6 gallons. I added 5 crushed campden and as I type this i'm thinking I probably should have done 6 tablets.

This is how we do it. I put them into a large zip lock bag leaving about an inch unsealed so air can escape. Keep a finger in that hole or it will close up an slightly elevated so juiced won't run out. Take a mallet (use the smooth end) and break up the grapes really well. Then drop them in to...

I started my muscadine wine yesterday and added campden at the end. This morning I see the wine has started fermenting. It's not 24 hours yet. I have never had the wild yeast survive the campden before. Is this a problem? Do I add more campden and wait another 24 or go ahead and stay on target...

Now that sounds good. My son makes Blueberrry, I may have to get him to conspire on a new wine with me. I don't know if mine would ever come close to winning an award, but my wife will not buy any store bought wine anymore, so I take that a an acknowledgement. at least.

I make Muscadine every year. If you have never had it, you are cheating yourself. Don't buy the stuff you find in stores, they sweeten it back so much and add flavors to it, it's just not good. But home made Muscadine is my favorite wine. I just bottled my 2020 wine today (I am a...

When I first started making wine in 2014, the shop I bought my supplies from suggested I use dextrose. He said it made a big difference in flavor, specifically a twang. He said if he tastes a wine he an tell right off if someone used regular cane sugar. So I used it with my first Muscadine...

Muscadine wine is my favorite and I make it almost every year. I also blend some with peach wine and bottle it together and it's my wifes favorite. I start with 30lbs of muscadines. I put about 30 grapes into a 1 gallon zip lock bag and smash them good with a metal potato smasher, then my...

I started a new batch of Muscadine wine tonight. I purchased my dextrose from a wine and beer supply store, It was bulk and they bagged up what I asked for. As I started dissolving it tonght I noticed small wood chips or flakes floating in the water. I used a scsreen to get it out. Is this...

My wife's favorite wine. Muscadine Peach. This was last years label. I just started my 2019 Muscadine yesterday.

We live in Georgia and a few years ago we had a horrible outbreak of fleas. Come in the house and we were covered. The house was literally covered. I had some Home Defense I had bought at Lowes that I used for ants outside. I sprayed the house and in about 2 days they were all gone. I took a...

My son had this painting done for us. The bottles are my labels and the books are all named to do with our family. It is a great painting. The other great part of it is that my daughter in laws mother is the artist. It hangs in my wine making space.

2018 batch of Muscadine and Peach. When bottled they will be blended to make MuscaPeach.

Update for those interested. I contacted the folks at Orchard Breezing and was told that this was normal. That is ok it is just the fining agents that will settle and clear out. When you add your fining agents you add D1 kieselsol first stir very gently wait five minutes then add Chitosan...

No change yet, but it is still early.

After racking the wine from the primary fermenter into the Carboy, I added the packages of Sulphite and Potassium Sorbate and stirred vigorously as per the instructions. Then I added the Finishing Blend, which appeared to be a syrupy bag of flavoring. Then it was degassed for 5 minutes of...

That is encouraging Stressbaby, thanks. Julie I attached a pic, hope it works. There is a layer in the liquid where some settlement is sitting, it is even with the top of the second ring on the carboy. If the sediment did not sit there you would not know it was there, so it appears to be a SG...

I am making the Orchard Breezin Mist, Peach Chardonnay. This is my first attempt at making wine. Yesterday, was day 14 and my SG was 0.998. I followed the instructions to the T and today the wine is clearing nicely with lots of sediment at the bottom. However it appears that there is a...