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Good Morning! I'm making wine for the first time in my life today... I bought a press (#40 Marichisio I believe) and just noticed that I did not receive any "Pawls" or "Rachet Keys" with the press... (Also didn't receive the leverage bar). I'm struggling to find a place where I can purchase...

Hello! We are a newly licensed winery that is looking to finally be making some equipment purchases. We have had some bad luck contracting our harvests out to be made for us so far resulting in two vintages that have been deemed unsellable. I would like to get some equipment to be able to make...

Hello everyone! Brand new member here. My husband and I recently purchased the old homestead that his grandparents built, and over the past few years have been renovating the house and 15+ acres, putting in gardens and fruit trees, etc. This summer whilst putting in some new blueberry bushes...

Hello everyone, I hope you're all in good health and high spirits. I have registered in these forums primarily for this first post. I am dealing with a difficult situation and I need help with making a decision. About three months ago my father abruptly lost his battle with cancer. The loss...

Hi I am very new to viticulture. I am in TX and I just received 16 temparanillo vines. After a heavy rain I seem to have several issues. Can you please help me identify whats wrong with my new vines and what treatments can I use?

Hey there! I’m new to the community & this is also my first attempt at making wine. A couple questions: 1. I got everything added to my Big Mouth Bubbler and then found out the lid won’t stay attached. It keeps popping off. Will it mess everything up if I siphon it to a different 1 gallon...

Hello all, I am new to wine making and it's my first kit. It's a wilko red wine kit, I got as a gift. My initial SG was 1.054 but I only reaslised that was too low today when I took a second reading. The demijohn has been kept at 24 degrees Celsius (about 75 Fahrenheit) for three days and has...

I am having an issue with my wine. First off it's way too strong (doesn't even taste like wine. It would be ok if it were strong and fruity or strong and sweet), perhaps a bit vinegary. To me it's vodka-like but muddy looking. My husband and a freind think it tastes vinegary. It also has almost...

I used bentonite in my mead, it worked wonderfully. I was racking the wine into bottles and my hand slipped and all the bentonite that settled at the bottom remixed back up in to a cloudy mess. It hasn't seemed to resettle again and it still cloudy after about 4 days so far. Is there a way to...

Hi, I'm Travis, and I'm brand new to this, so please take it easy on me lol. I don't even know if this question can be answered but at least I have some specifics for you. So here it goes.... Recently at work, I had started working with a new guy. I'm an electrician and I'm new to the field so...

Please help! I racked the wine into a 54L glass demijohn last week and at that point it was delicious, I tasted it today through the spigot and it tastes like sewage!!! Is there anyway to fix this? Please help. This is the wine I want to top up my 200L barrel with. Also, took a sample out of the...

I am looking to start producing my own wine from grape juice to start. I have done lots of research and only have a few questions before starting. After the first fermentation (5-7 days) and the yeast begins to die and settle. Should I pour the wine into a new container to remove the dead yeast...

Hello! I am a new member as well as new at wine making ( I am planning my first batch now ). I live in Michigan, and right now it is not the warmest (30 degrees and snow to be exact! LOL!). I am trying to find a location to make my wine. The back half of my house is cool (average temp is...

Hi there! New to the forum so not sure where I should post this but..... I’ve been making sloe gin for the last 10 years but this year is the first time I’ve had this happen. I made 10 litres and the whole batch smells like marzipan!! Nothing else!! Pure marzipan!! It smells nice to me but...

I need some help choosing a kit. I am getting married on August 3rd of this year and want to make 2 kits to hand out with labeled bottles as favors. We are using 375 ml bottles and each household (55) is getting one bottle. The intention is to tell people to take the bottle home and on our 1...

its getting late in the season, an this is my first planting. My vines did not do great at all but some got up to the trellis wire and some didn’t. I heard you should trim the one that didn’t make it back to about two buds, is this true and when should it be done? Also should I leave the ones on...

The peaches on my trees are getting closer and closer to maturation, and as they grow I too grow more and more tempted to attempt to make peach wine, though the more I research the more I realize that fermenting wine using peaches could potentially be very different in technique to what I'm used...

Howdy folks. I created a wine from an old grape vine in my garden around two months ago, this was my first attempt at making wine and was a very fun time, I did not perform a malolactic fermentation post the primary fermentation. The wine is very tart, it has a strong alcohol flavour behind an...

So I have two gallons of the same batch of grapefruit wine. One has developed a peculiar white ring at the top of the wine where it terminates in the neck of the jug. Anyone seen this before? Should I be concerned with it? Is it just some residual fermentation? I ask because the other is clear...

I do not currently have a yeast slurry available, can I make skeeter pee out of fresh yeast? What changes must I make?