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  1. thepremo1

    home winemaking easy and fun

    so I was inquiring into my wine I had bottled, and I was curious about my mead, like I said I had tasted a little when I bottled it and it wasn’t very good (it has aged about 3.5 months. , but I had made two batches, one with more honey than the other,(I used raw honey with like pieces of bee...
  2. thepremo1

    home winemaking easy and fun

    Pumpkin Mead This is a nice seasonal mead with a beautiful orange color and makes 1 gallon. •Yeast: D-47 Lalvin •3 pounds of clover honey •1 gallon of spring water •12 ounces of pumpkin •1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon •1 gallon of spring water •1 twist of orange peel which is about 1/5th of the...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    wow your giving me alot to process and for that i thankyou i dont know what Fermaid-K + DAP is? i get the honey from my work and it isnt anything special is that ok? for the Meadowfoam Honey you think i could just mix vanilla and honey can call it good? im not sure what you mean by sugar...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    Saddi did raspberry mead i have apple trees so in the fall i make good on the apples i would love more carboys, but like you said cheap cheap cheap i to have heard great things about tomato wine, but everyone would rather eat them than let me make wine from them. about how many times do you rack...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    wow! 20 percent, the most i ever got was 18% and i added suger like 4 time till it quit. dont worry i use wine yeast that was just the first batch i every made if its not a secret can i have your raspberry recipe? i dont know about pectinace, but i use petic enzyme. i am assuming they are the...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    I have 6 gals of berry melomel fermenting, and technically the lemon mint is one too. Not done hard cider, but plum and cherry wines we've done. ha funny story about cherry. me and a buddy went in half and half on a vine harvest cherry fruit base, and a wine kit( right when i startedmaking...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    does anyone have a good apple wine, or hard cider recipe. the first batch of apple turned out great, and it was the one i made with just suger, bakers yeast, about half of gallon of juiced apples, and water, i have done two apples after that and neither turned out near as good, the one was...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    im thinking of asking the owner of the bar if will save capper bottles for me and ill pay him 15 cents each,, but on a busy night i dont think he will be able to put the ones i want into a different container and youve only blown up one bottle, everyone i have talked to about making beer says...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    i talked to the people at the local wine store and they thought that the wine might not be able to age in beer bottles, and it might go bad the only problem with using beer bottles is that they cost $ compared to getting most of my bottles for free. but they do sell sealing plastic at the store...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    it didnt work:(
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    this may sound silly, but what if the bottle explodes rather than the cork shooting out? i have caps and a beer capper, but i dont know if that will work because the rims are different infact im going to go check right now
  12. thepremo1

    home winemaking easy and fun

    they aged about 2and a half months now. my first bottle i ever bottled blow up:lol: but you live and you learn, ever since then i have been very scidish when it comes to bubbles in the bottle i cork most of my bottles, is that not the way to go? the other thing i do is since i get all my...
  13. thepremo1

    home winemaking easy and fun

    3 pounds honey 3tsp maltic acid 1.5 tsp tartaric acid .25tsp tannin .75tsp yeast energizer campden tablet oh and spring water yeast for 1 gallon somthing like that i ment honey for a wine sweetener, instead of conditioner or suger when its "fizzing", what about bottles blowing up? i found a...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    i have carrot wine going right now, its ... intresting tasting has anyone used hoey to sweeten the wine, because now that im working for a bee farm, i have like 15 pounds of honey, more than i will use in like 3 years time just eating it, what do you sugest doing when a batch starts to referment...
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    home winemaking easy and fun

    I work for a bee farm, and one of our costumers gets vinegar by the 50gallon drum. When there is about a half to a gallon left in them she will bring them to us, and then we get an overabundance of vinegar, the employees cant use the stuff fast enough. So I ve never tried to make vinegar I took...
  16. thepremo1

    home winemaking easy and fun

    As a hobby I make wine It started with one of my buddy telling me how easy it was and me making it in a couple plastic gallon jugs with rubber bands, and balloons. Next thing I know I’m spending a couple hundred dollars on equipment and ingredients , which isn’t all that necessary. Does...
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