cayenne Pepper Wine..

[gesnipes]

Has anyone ever tried fresh table grapes instead of grape juice or raisins?
I still have about 10 pounds of Himrods hanging and 10 pounds of Sufolk Reds.

That would work. You would treat it like any fresh fruit batch. Personally, I wouldn't waste fresh grapes on cooking wine. I'd use those grapes to make a nice table wine.

 

[gesnipes]

For that batch, no had no trouble at all getting it started but about a month ago I started a batch and no matter what I did could not get it to start had to dumped it. I have two others going and what I did was start the wine first and after sg reached 1.010 added the hot peppers and they are not just aging.

If you can't get this to start make a new one and use this one to top up with.

It took it a long time, but it finally started. Now it's fermenting like crazy.

 

[Runningwolf]

It took it a long time, but it finally started. Now it's fermenting like crazy.

I made a six gallon batch. Once it got started I could not keep an air lock on it. It kept blowing the red cap white off of it. That went on for about six days.

 

[gesnipes]

I made a six gallon batch. Once it got started I could not keep an air lock on it. It kept blowing the red cap white off of it. That went on for about six days.

Must be the heat generated from the peppers