New to this but keen to learn

[TimN]

Hi all, Tim here. Never made wine before but after watching a few YouTube vids, keen to give it a go. I have a glut of mangos and pineapples at the moment and was wondering if anyone has a recipe I could try? Any other helpful tips would be much appreciated. Cheers.

 

[Rice_Guy]

Welcome to WMT
* many of us start with a kit to see the mechanics
* oxidation is the biggest quality problem, to control oxidation we add campden tablets ( potassium metabisulphite) and use hardware as air locks and siphon tubes
* wine is made for crops where we have a glut and want to preserve them, above 11% alcohol is extremely safe, that said a hydrometer is useful to predict finished alcohol.
* EC Kraus on the web is an excellent place to find reliable recipes, all recipes build a product with about pH 3.5 (for preservative) and gravity of about 1.900 (for % alcohol)

 

[TimN]

Thank you, will check out EC Kraus

Welcome to WMT
* many of us start with a kit to see the mechanics
* oxidation is the biggest quality problem, to control oxidation we add campden tablets ( potassium metabisulphite) and use hardware as air locks and siphon tubes
* wine is made for crops where we have a glut and want to preserve them, above 11% alcohol is extremely safe, that said a hydrometer is useful to predict finished alcohol.
* EC Kraus on the web is an excellent place to find reliable recipes, all recipes build a product with about pH 3.5 (for preservative) and gravity of about 1.900 (for % alcohol)

nk

 

[salcoco]

The Winemaking Home Page here is another good site has instructions as well as recipes

 

[sour_grapes]

Welcome, Tim!

 

[robert81650]

Hello Tim...............................

 

[hounddawg]

welcome Tim,
on the recipes forum and beginners forum you'll end up addicted as all of the above are, and as am I,,,,
Dawg