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I'm still here! I've been quiet since we don't have anything going on right now except the watermelon wine, which we need to get racked off into another carboy! Just waiting for hubby to have time off so he can lift the 5g jug up to the counter.

Quote: Welcome to our madnes! muddstopper 11/12/2011 7:30 am How long does everybody usually wait inbetween racking? My first racking usually takes place 9 to 14 days after I start the must. This is usually when I remove the must from the primary (5gal bucket) and put it into the secondary...

Quote: Do you do anything special to the honey before adding it to your fruit wines?

Quote: zzyGypsy, Welcome to the thread! Heres a link with persimmon tree pix: Persimmons And a recipe: Persimmon Wine And another recipe for ya: Pumpkin Wine

Welcome to the thread, oesdog! Glad to have you here! kuntrygirl, Nice score! The persimmons start falling here at the same time hunting season starts up...sigh!

Quote: "Cheating" isn't necessarily a bad thing in this hobby! Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do! I'd been threatening to try a 5 gallon batch of pumpkin wine but I'm positive that hubby would be more inclined to trying the hard cider recipe! kuntrygirl Can you post the watermelon...

Your Welcome, kuntrygirl! sgtmom52 and mudstopper, We're a few years away from making hard cider but we'll get there! Already keeping our eyes peeled for a fruit press! Update on the Watermelon wine... We did it!!! We weren't sure if we'd pull it off after reading so many negative things...

Here ya go, kuntrygirl: How to make champagne How to make champagne (video)

Found some hopefully useful information on back sweetening for you, chicken stalker: Back Sweetening back sweetening

So far, so good with my new "turbo-charged" computer! It's so fast, compared to my old dinosaur, that I'm wearing a safety belt, helmet and hope I don't get pulled over for speeding! Click in the link to see pix of the watermelon wine. Will add more pix once we get more fine tuning done on the...

Thank you again, muddstopper, for your help with the yeast starter! Watermelon wine is fermenting happily away in the primary as I type this! We got it put together on Sunday and were so pleased to end up with almost 4 gallons of fresh watermelon juice and once we added the white grape juice...

We love Jack Keller's site, tons of good information there. We'll be using the Watermelon-Grape Juice Concentrate recipe and adjusting it up to 6 gallons. We brought 4 small watermelons home from my moms, yesterday so I think we're looking really good as far as pure melon juice goes. We'll...

Thanks for your truly helpful post, muddstopper. What I did was boil 1 pint of pure H2Omelon juice (to sterilize it), let it cool to room temperature then added 1/4 tspn yeast nutrient and 2 tspn sugar (mixed all together, then pured this off into a 2 liter soda bottle then added the yeast...

Well, my first attempt at a yeast starter was a failure. I think most of it had to do with the temperature swings we've been having here plus the yeast was from last year but I don't know if that was a factor, or not. Still haven't got the watermelon wine started but will be doing so in a few...

I love your "under the sink" set-up, muddstopper! My mom gave us two small - medium watermelons yesterday so we'll be trying our hands at a 5 gallon back of watermelon/white grape juice concentrate wine. We plan on buying a large watermelon to add to this experiment. During my recipe...

Quote: Hi Muddstopper, The carbouy is a plastic one that came from one of those office "water fountains". We had a bad experience with the glass ones like that when we had our aquarium maintenance biz back in TN. Our first "big" client hired us to revamp his 125 gallon salt water reef system...

Kuntrygirl, Those pears look yummy! I don't know if you do any canning but my mom makes pear sauce every year when the pears come in. It's made just like apple sauce. The main recipe we followed for our pear wine: 4 pounds of pears 2 pounds sugar 1 teaspoon citric acid 1 gallon of water...

Hi kuntrygirl! Our pear wine turned out surprisingly well, it was our first attempt at wine making together and we basically winged it by using several recipes as a guide. It has a very light, yet noticable pear flavor which surprised us! It's wonderful with lightly seasoned chicken or fish...

Well, doc and I are back to the drawing board... We didn't get any blue- or blackberries from our patches this year due to the excessive heat and lack of rain, so no Black-n-Blue wine for us. Checked my aunt's persimmon tree and no fruit there either but her pear tree is loaded again this year...

Wilds of PA, The pear wine turned out to be pretty high octane and we warn everyone we've shared it with "do not drink this if you have to leave the house"! So far, they've all agreed. We've no idea what type of pear it is as it was there when my uncle and aunt bought the farmstead 35+ years...