Making Traditional rice Wine. Cheap, Fun, and Different
Traditional rice wine isn't really "wine" at all but this area is as close as I can figure to post this. There are only a few threads on HBT talking about making rice wine but nothing that I am aware...
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Man, I love Apfelwein
Apfelwein - Fermenting Award Winning Apfelwein Recipe (German Hard Cider) Apple Wine Recipe Placed 1st in the Cider & Apple Wine category at the BJCP sanctioned Alamo Cerveza fest (out of 11...
View ArticleI never thought I’d be asking a question about infection, but here I am.
I’m quite sure of the answer, just looking for someone to confirm. This is my maple wine that I made on Monday. OG was 1.110 and I pitched D47. I missed my 3rd nutrient addition yesterday due to a sick...
View ArticleUsing tea for tannins
Hi everyone. I've used commercial wine tannin as well as raisins in my batches. The notion of trying dark/black tea appeals to me. Would anyone have a recommendation as to what amount of tea I should...
View ArticleWhen to adding oak chips to blackberry wine
I'm trying wood chips for the first time for my blackberry wine, I have American Medium Toasted Oak, French Medium Toasted Oak and Hungarian Medium Toasted Oak. I used 4lb frozen blackberries to 17...
View ArticleFull Hard Lemonade recipe
I'm new. Like still squalling new, but I want to make something I will drink myself that doesn't take 18 months to enjoy. My husband will only drink something like Mikes hard lemonade so the two of us...
View ArticleGloopy wine
Please help; I make various types of wine, all of which are successful except one; elderflower Champaign. In about half of the batches I make, it turns to a gloop with the consistency of egg-whites...
View ArticleVery dissapointed with Vintner's Best Rhubarb wine base
I thought I was buying rhubarb concentrate but this is now a blend of junk including HFCS as the first ingredient. But rather than toss it I made 3 gallons from this 1 gallon (rather than the suggested...
View ArticleFunky wine
So I have a few different corboys that the air locks went dry and I had some growth on the tops of my brew. Added meta bi sulfite to kill the growth and waited for everything to clear again and now...
View ArticlePlease Help! White Foam on Wine!
Hello, This is my very first time brewing wine.. brewing anything for that matter! I attached pictures for you to take a better look. There is this white layer of foam? I thought it was mold at first...
View ArticleChokecherry wine using dried chokecherries
Hi all, first post so am looking forward to a lot of discussions. I have made dandelion, elderberry, and rhubarb wine and mead. Those are in varying stages from bottles to still clarifying on the...
View ArticleHow much time does wine yeast take to consume 1 kg of sugar?
Hello all, I am planning to buy some wine yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) from my local Amazon store and prepare an alcoholic ginger ale. I plan to use some grated ginger, one lemon, 1 kg (2.2 lb) of...
View ArticleHave I messed up?
I bought a bunch of white grape juice from Walmart and was going to make a batch, while pouring it into the fermenter, when I was on the next to the last bottle, I looked at the ingredients on the...
View ArticlePlum wine hazy in bottle
So I made a gallon of plum wine, like 2-3 pounds of plums, pectic enzyme, water to fill. Carboy looked clear and actually sat clear and still for about two weeks with some small layer of sediment at...
View ArticleAcid Way too High
Hello, I started on my 2nd batch of blueberry and blackberry wine and wanted to up my game so I purchased a acid test kit. Apparently I am slightly color blind (the wife agrees) and I completely...
View ArticleAdvice
Hey guys, I’m currently making my first batch of wine ever and think I may have stumbled across a problem. I did the first racking over into an air locked carboy five days ago and everything seemed to...
View ArticleSeedling pear wine with seeds
I have two 50-ft pear trees on a property that I just bought and I thought about cutting them down because the pears are small and not worth eating. I figure if I can make wine I might keep one of them...
View ArticleRaspberry Wine troubles
I recently attempted to make raspberry wine for the first time and beforehand I looked at plenty of videos of how to make it and I feel like each video was different, especially on the amount of time...
View ArticleHow to store freshly dumped bourbon oak barrel
I posted this question on the beer forums and am still a little unsure of the best way to do this, thought the wine forum might be appropriate since it's a barrel question. I just received my 5gallon...
View ArticleSpecific gravity of sugar dissolved in water
Dear Homebrew forum I've been making a few batches of wine based on Rose hip (Rosa Rogusa) - basically it's just water, sugar and wild yeast found on the outside of the fruit. Its very tasteful indeed....
View ArticleOxidisation concerns stainless steel conical "Secondary ferment" Large...
Hi all. New here. I have not had any luck searching forums for a specific answer regarding WINE, not beer. I have followed the usual links of "you will find that thread here". I am looking for help...
View ArticleBeginning Wine Making
Hi all, I am so glad to chance upon this forum. i started making my first batch of red wine, but it turned out really sweet. Guess the yeast didn’t do its magic. I am onto my second try of making red...
View ArticlePineapple Wine (Sparkling or Still)
Hello, First time posting, this seems like a pretty good place to get input so I am hoping to get some ideas from the community. The objective is to make a pineapple wine worth drinking preferably...
View ArticleCopper, H2S Treatment and Possibility of Poisoning
Sorry I need your help to figure out if things are okay with my wine as I have little experience in winemaking. A batch of red wine went off odour due to H2S. I was unaware of the right methods and...
View ArticleI too have fallen victim to Cranberry Wine...
I keep reading how hard it is to get fresh cranberries to ferment, and I just keep hoping my batch will take off with each little fix I try. I started it a week and a half ago, a 5-gallon batch. I am...
View Article5% to 6% ABV sparkling wine
I really like dry sparkling apple cider; I make it with storebought apple juice from Aldi, Costco, or Walmart, and just a tiny bit of sugar. But there's a shortage right now of apple juice. It totally...
View ArticleArizona Fruitpunch Wine
This may be a long shot but has anyone ever try making wine from Arizona Fruit Punch? They claim they're are no preservatives so I'd assumed making wine from it would work but I'm four days in and...
View ArticleFast Ferment Connical Fermenter
I just recently got a 3 gal fast ferment connical fermenter fory birthday. I'm thinking about returning it and getting 3 gallon carboys. I do mostly frozen fruit wines and I think they produce too much...
View ArticleLooking for a fruit/champagne recipe
A couple summers ago I had a friend who made a simple and quick alcoholic beverage where he fermented champagne yeast for a few days until he got about 5% alcohol, he then added his mixture to a large...
View ArticleDumb question
I am new to brewing and wine making. I am thinking about making a peach wine. Years ago I had some homemade peach wine from an old man that I once knew. He would always say that it was triple twisted....
View ArticleSubstitute For Chinese Yeast Balls?
Hey there. Im interested in making my first batch of Sake, i have 99% of the ingredients needed, the only thing i am missing are these elusive "Chinese Yeast Balls". I have looked everywhere, and i...
View ArticleNo activity in airlock.
Started an island mist sangria kit, after pitching 1118 yeast waited 48 hours no activity in airlock, I added yeast nutrient after 24hrs. still nothing, then added a packet of red star montrachet and...
View ArticleFortifying port style wine
Hi, new here. There seems a lot to look through in the threads but a quick search doesn't show up much about fortifying. I'm wondering if anyone here fortified enough to answer a couple of questions....
View ArticleBREWER'S ORCHARD NATURAL PLUM
Hello has anyone used below product in 5gal batch , if so how did it turn out? [IMG alt="Brewer’s Orchard Natural Plum Fruit Puree 4.4... BREWER'S ORCHARD NATURAL PLUM
View ArticleWhat to do about a no-go?
I found a whole bunch of frozen cherries in the back of my freezer, so started a 1 gallon batch of cherry wine. Put in all the usual things (including 1 Campden tablet), waited 24 hours, pitched EC1118...
View ArticleFirst try at dandelion wine....
I am still pretty new at brewing/wine making but I have done several batches of this and that so I was super excited to try dandelion wine when the flowers began to bloom. So my wife and I picked...
View ArticleSkeeter Pee
Has anyone tried this? http://www.skeeterpee.com/Skeeter_Pee/Welcome.html Looks like it has the potential to be good, I'm just looking for someone with experience with it before I give it a shot.
View ArticleHow do they make 13.5% abv wine ?
I have never seen grape juice over 12% carbs on the shelf. Actually its one of the sweetest or highest sugar liquids, even coke and pepsi is slightly lower. That would not result in 13.5% abv like my...
View ArticleHow do I make a "Sparkling Wine"?
Please critique my plan: Our youngest just celebrated her 20th birthday, and for her 21st birthday she asked if I'd make a wine for her. I know she prefers white to red, and she likes sparkling wine....
View ArticleGetting started; kit, juice or grapes, red or white. From a beer brewing...
After a decade of brewing beer I want to make the step into the world of wine. I did some research online and I found there are a couple of choices to be make before I can take off, some of which I...
View ArticleWhat wine recipe
I would like to try again I've never had success with wine and I'm not entirely sure I have the patience I normally brew beer. Note. I'm in the UK some US ingredients are not available for example...
View ArticleCould you help me with my muscadine wine?
I'm pretty new at brewing so forgive me if I'm ignorant I brewed a half gallon of wine from muscadines I picked from a vineyard near me. I tasted it after secondary fermentation. It tasted.... fine. It...
View ArticleWine brewing
Hello guys, I'm new to this homebrewing I heard wine can ferment within 3 days so I've got some questions... I have not measured this out properly as I didn't really think I just experimented but so...
View ArticlePectic enzyme needed for a base of pureed fruit?
hi, I decided to make plum wine since the dandelions are not yet in full bloom here (which was going to be my project this weekend). I have a boxed bag of commercial plum puree (pure plums) and it is...
View ArticleFermentation Duration?
I'm a brewer thinking of making some wine, a member here kindly recommend Lemon, however I'm puzzled by the amount of time wine fermentation seems to take. If I use an adequate quantity of healthy...
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