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Yes, you do need to worry about oxidation. It will turn brown and no, it won't go away and will affect your wine. Just work fast and have k-metabisulfite in your container collecting your juice. If you're planning on getting 1 gallon, add the appropriate amount of k-meta for a gallon (or 1...

You are correct. I was copying and pasting from my notes. Honeycrisp would fall in the sweet category. I have corrected it. I am not familiar with Haralson, but by doing some quick research, I would say it would fall in the sharp category.

Apple is my favorite non-grape wine. I have several apple trees at my house. I will try to answer your questions. Some I will not be able to answer as I always crush and press my apples for 100% juice. 1. What other apples would you blend with them? I'm thinking I can get some to mix at a local...

While not traditional by any sense, I made a pear/cotton candy with some of last years crop -2021. I crushed, pressed and used 100% pear juice. I added a small amount of cotton candy flavoring when I backsweetened. My wife says its the best I've ever made. Everyone who's tried it (and likes...

The oils will be your issue. You could use the powdered peanut butter stuff, all of the oil has been removed. But that stuff is expensive! I've never done this before, so I'm shooting from the hip here. I would make some type of grape base wine - white wine for straight peanut butter, red wine...

I'd stick with the Brutes if they're cheaper. Tried and true. They work perfectly for the home winemaker. I use the white ones because they're semitransparent and you can see the liquid level through the side. But I'm a tight wad too 😆 . I don't see any real advantage of using the short, wide...

I have done deep thought on this. If you keep what I call the "Macro Elements" (pH, acid, starting SG, finishing SG, finishing pH) consistent, you can get very close results from year to year when backsweetening. For example, your blackberry. Lets say you start at 1.100 SG, pH of 3.3 TA of .6...

Hard to tell from a picture, but it looks like herbicide damage. If you haven't used any, maybe drift from a nearby farm or neighbor.

That's weird. Did you add water to 6 gallons? I started a blackberry Finer kit last week and the pH was 3.55. It was 2 gallons of concentrate to 4 gallons of added water. I am actually going to add acid to mine to drop it - significantly. If you plan to sweeten, I'd let it go at 3.07. As stated...

@Rice_Guy It is definitely an assumption on my part. I did not run chromatography tests. It is in a temperature controlled environment at 68 degrees. It had fermented to .994 and racked into bulk aging. I racked one time during aging (about 7 months). When I went to bottle, it had these tiny...

I had a strawberry batch go through an unplanned spontaneous MLF. I am trying to turn this unfortunate event into something positive. Fruit wines improve with a little sweetness and sorbate can't be used to stabilize a wine that has been through Malolatic fermentation (or so I've heard). So, I...

I have a FW blackberry being delivered today. Considering throwing some oak in the primary. Do you feel it has enough body to oak?

My 2nd year "test plot" Marquette is in full shoot mode. It is at least 2 weeks ahead of the rest of the vineyard. It doesn't appear the cold (below freezing) weather we had a week ago stunned them at all. Impressed.

I am looking for a cucumber wine recipe also. I am not finding much, maybe there's a reason for that 😆. But, I keep coming across this same recipe. I believe the original I ran across (2012 post I believe) called for pouring boiling water over the mixture. This is highly questionable and why I...

That is probably going to be what I end of doing. I was hoping someone out here may know if this exists pre-fab. I am trying to keep it simple. I am a simple man, lol.

Hi All! I have out grown my small 3 gallon press and will be upgrading. I have access to all of the hardwood lumber I could ever use (as well as a wood working shop), so I am going to build a new press. The parts are easy to come by - mostly. I plan to use a 1" threaded rod passing through a...

I’ve watch my weight increase steadily through my 30s. I’ve tried the fad diets, Keto, Adkins, even the smoothie diet. Yes, they worked while you followed them. But the weight came back on as soon as you eased off of them. Finally, I decided to get serious. My mother in law had good luck with...

There is no way I could use something, anything at all, knowing a mouse has been floating around in it for up to 3 weeks. Nope, not I.

@Winetroof I love strawberry wine, I make it every year! First, like many, I started out with Keller recipes. I have found that every one of them I have made is small on fruit flavor and typically very high in alcohol, which takes away from the little bit of fruit flavor that is there. Fast...

Here is the link - VA Code sec 4.1 - https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title4.1/chapter2/ The new laws are labeled Effective January 1, 2022. The current laws are labeled Effective until January 1, 2022.