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Taste Your Wine Any Time
First off, I ALWAYS taste my juice before I begin a batch of homemade wine. I want to know what my blueberry juice or blackberry juice tastes like before I add the yeast. I want to know if it is sweet… more →
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Quick Tip - Cloudy Wine
Scott wrote 1 year ago: Cloudy wine? Give it time. I know, I’m a regular Dr. Seuss. But really, there are ways to clea … more →
Winemaking Costs
Scott wrote 1 year ago: Besides being a die-hard do it yourselfer, I’m also quite frugal. I hate paying somebody $100 … more →
Quick Tip - Economy of Scale
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Scott wrote 1 year ago: I make wine six-gallons at a time. I’ve tried more, I’ve tried less. Six-gallons is perf … more →
Real Cork or Synthetic?
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Scott wrote 1 year ago: This is a bit of an issue for the home winemaker. Most of the corks you can purchase at the supply s … more →
Taste Your Wine Any Time
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Scott wrote 1 year ago: First off, I ALWAYS taste my juice before I begin a batch of homemade wine. I want to know what my b … more →
Picking Fruit to Make Wine
Scott wrote 1 year ago: You want to make fruit wine. Where do you get the fruit? I would suggest you think about this for a … more →
Quick Tip - Temperature and Fermentation
Scott wrote 1 year ago: If you ferment your wine at a lower temperature, the wine will have more flavor. Most yeasts need to … more →
More Winemaking Toys
Scott wrote 1 year ago: Yeah, you’re hooked. Me too. The good news is that your not going to spend a fortune to move u … more →
Quick Tip - Cover Up That Carboy
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Scott wrote 1 year ago: Put a T-Shirt over your carboy when you have wine in it. It will help keep the sunlight off the win … more →
Quick Tip - Using Raisins in Homemade Wine
Scott wrote 1 year ago: There are a number of recipes that call for using raisins to give a homemade fruit wine more body. Y … more →
What are Campden Tablets?
Scott wrote 1 year ago: Let me start by saying … “Who came up with this?” Okay, I get the idea, it’s … more →
Sweetening Homemade Wine
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Scott wrote 1 year ago: Let’s start with the basics. When your wine is properly fermented, there is no residual sugar … more →
Quick Tip - Adding Yeast
Scott wrote 1 year ago: When it’s time to add yeast to the must (juice soon to be wine), vigorously stir up the juice. … more →
Quick Tip - Making Your Bottle Appealing
Scott wrote 1 year ago: When I first started making wine, I showed up at a party with a very plain unlabeled bottle. I was e … more →
Quick Tip - Iodophor
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Scott wrote 1 year ago: Buy this stuff. It’s not expensive, it lasts forever, and it does a great job. Iodophor is a s … more →
Is it Wine or Rocket Fuel?
Scott wrote 1 year ago: Alcohol is the byproduct of yeast eating sugar. We worry about the amount of sugar in our juice beca … more →
Wine from a kit? Really?
Scott wrote 1 year ago: Yes, really. I made my first wine kit about seven years ago. My thought at the time was something al … more →
Quick Tip - Wine Bottles
Scott wrote 1 year ago: There are a lot of small wineries here in Pennsylvania. They all have tasting rooms and they go thro … more →
Winemaking Equipment
Scott wrote 1 year ago: I really recommend you start with a wine kit, and not a super expensive kit. I just picked up a Wine … more →
