Homemade Wine

[wombat]

I mostly brew beer, but I brew mead and make some wine now and then.

Made sour cherry wine this summer.

 

[Torch404]

I just bottled my Pomegranate Absinthe wine and now have an orange tangerine, Green tea and ginger, a rose petal and nasturtium flower all bubbling away. Well I racked it and I think the Orange tangerine has stopped bubbling

 

[Eggs4Sale]

Anybody use dates???

 

[Damummis]

Just bottled 10 bottles of hard cider, 5 Elderberry wine, 4 mead. Racked peach wine, peach mead, and rhubarb wine that WILL NOT clarify. And tips?????

 

[bee_wrangler]

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I made some rhubarb wine and had the same problem. It took alot longer than any other wine I made to clear, but after time it did. You can get stuff to clarify it but it also takes out most of the color. I would give it more time, and if there is still no luck you can always add it to another batch of wine... strawberry/rhubarb is very nice wine

 

[ametauss]

I'd love some simple recipes to try... I'm not much of a wine drinker but love the fruity wines...

I'm intrigued by the mead... never tried that even when we were doing ren faires... it seems I'm always the designated driver....

My uncle did cordials with fruit and vodka but he's passed away and I never got his recipe....


Thanks for sharing...

 

[alabama49]

I use to make beer and some peach & berry wines but never tried sangria! Would someone share a receipe or two with me?
Thanks!!!

 

[19Dawn76]

My uncle makes muscadine wine . Every christmas we have a couple of jugs on the back porch and all the adults disappear from time to time.

I would love to make some myself and suprise everyone with it. When is someone going to post a tutorial?

 

[chickenfinger]

hello everybody hope I am doing this right. Have a few Qs. First I need to know h to start my rubarb wine I have been told to diferent things first was don't boil the barb and the other was to boil it and take the head off and thgat takes the bad acid out. If I don't boil it how do I get the juice out. I have 3 to 4 gal bags and was wondering if that was enough to make a 5 gal batch. Also I will be transfering my mulberry wine tob carboy can and how can I reuse the fruit to make a double batch and is 67f to 72f Good temp to secondry forment in carboy wish me luck on my first run of wine(mulberry). Ran in to problems at start but turend out ok still bubbling so far so good thanks

 

[therealsilkiechick]

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bentonite absorbs alot of color but go to the winery and buy a liquid clarifying agent. usually it is a 2 part package but it works within 24 to 48 hours. what we got is called- super kleer k.c. if u r alergic to shellfish do not use it. we got it to use in lemon wine then didn't need it so haven't tried it yet but it is what the winery recommended for us to use.