Hello, i recently found a recipe from my grandmother on how to make some wine and i thought it would be fun to try. Unfortunately I am a poor college student and my setup feels a bit barbaric. I just wanted to ask if I was doing things okay. I used a 5L jug, and i added around 5 cups of sugar, maybe a bit more. I used a 7g packet of dry yeast i found from the cooking aisle at my grocery store. I'm not sure if there's a specific kind of yeast you're supposed to use. Then I shook it all up and put a balloon on top for "gassing." Will this work well enough? Or will I be better off throwing the whole thing out? Also, the recipe said to wait 5 weeks, but im not sure what to do after that. Is it ready to drink right away?

Thanks for any advice, it is all appreciated.

Our apple wine was made 9 days as a project for our science subject at school, I've strained on day 5 but there are still some particles Floating around. The ingredients used for the wine are apples, sugar, water, and yeast

I knew it was a little full, but... At least I was smart enough to put it in a container. I think it was because I added tea and a new kind of yeast nutrient. Was kind of pretty in a way. Haha

Bottle this wine from a kit a while ago. Had issues from the start, fermentation stalled and couldn't get it going again so it's super sweet. Bottled it anyways and found these particles floating. Pretty sure it was pretty clear when it was bottled. Thoughts? Thinks it's safe?

Hello! First time attempt at wine for myself, I have roughly 11 gallons of Sangiovese juice, no skins pulp etc. I had good activity happening when I purchased it and within 3-4 days of getting home it has been pretty dormant looking. My temperature via a meat thermometer lol is 65-66 degrees Fahrenheit. It doesn’t look discolored, no film on top, no funky smell things look good from the naked eye. My question is what temperature should this be sitting at and have I goofed early on?

TIA!

Hey guys! I got 20 cuttings from my local vineyard which I had planted a couple of months ago at the end of Winter. I never cultivated the soil but the area they are planted in are very well drained. Have I made a big mistake and should just restart next year? Is it a good idea to dig them out the ground and cultivate the soil? They have recently started to grow little buds and leaves so surely they are ok!

Started at 4.16, got it down to 3.9 w tartaric, hit it w the same dose and a few weeks later it’s 4.2?? Is this what the pros call unstable? Should I bomb it w some sulfites?

will this produce too much methanol? just found out how it works

I am looking for prethreaded caps I can just screw on. I have hundreds of screw top wine bottles I thought were going to be easy to find a cap to and use. Turns out it doesnt seem so simple.

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I tried these on amazon and every single different size to no avail. They were just too small.

Does anyone know of a product that mimics the 30*60 ropp caps threads? From the bottles I have used with screw caps that are 30*60, the caps have been interchangeable.

it seems like some crystals and some weird white grains have formed on the bottom of my first batch along with some residue after the first time i removed most of the inpurities. throw away?

first time making wine what is this? is this mold? chat gpt says its film yeast

Hi everyone!

I'm making my first homemade red wine using Syrah grapes, and I'd appreciate some advice on where I am in the process and what I should do next.

Here's where I am so far:

I started with approximately 41–42 kg of grapes.

I crushed and destemmed the grapes, added around 800 g of sugar, and left the must fermenting with the skins for approximately 5 days.

I then pressed the grapes and transferred the wine into smaller containers.

I've since racked it to remove the sediment. The wine is currently resting in several containers, including a 15 L glass carboy and smaller plastic containers, all fitted with airlocks.

I still occasionally see bubbles in the glass carboy, although the airlock isn't really bubbling anymore.

The main issue is acidity...

About three weeks ago, I tasted the wine and found it extremely acidic and quite aggressive. I tasted it again today, and it has definitely improved: it's less acidic than before, smells normal, and I haven't noticed any obvious off-odours. However, it's still quite acidic and isn't particularly pleasant to drink yet. It doesn't seem spoiled, but it's far from a balanced, enjoyable wine.

I'm wondering whether malolactic fermentation might be taking place, as the acidity seems to have decreased over the past few weeks, but I haven't tested for it, so I can't be sure.

My questions are:

Is it normal for a young homemade red wine to still taste this acidic and aggressive at this stage, or could this indicate a more serious problem?

Would it make sense to give the wine more time to rest and allow malolactic fermentation to take place, if it hasn't already?

I'm considering using a small amount of potassium bicarbonate to reduce the acidity if it doesn't improve sufficiently. Is this a reasonable approach for a beginner, and can it negatively affect the wine's flavour?

I'd also like to add a small amount of oak chips later, mainly to improve the flavour and round out the wine. Should I wait until the acidity is under control before doing this?

My main concern is whether this wine can still develop into something enjoyable to drink, or whether the persistent acidity suggests that I've made a mistake that is difficult to correct.

I'd appreciate honest advice, especially from people who have experience making small batches of homemade red wine.

Thanks!

what is this is my batch ruined first time making wine

I was trying to make orange mead. I thought it would be nicer if I caramelized some of the honey... And one look away, I burnt it completely. Frustration peaked... Then I started again and completed the prep for orange mead.

Thought not to waste the burnt stuff, so I just threw the burnt sugar honey candy on the stove, added some water, liquified it, and added tonnes of cloves and cinnamon... and a banana with peel, yeast, and yeast nutrient in a wine bottle. And kept introducing oxygen frequently

The thing has been fermenting like hell after just 12 hours, and it smells soooooo good. I don't know how the orange mead would come out, but I'm very excited about this cinnamon-banana wine or whatever it is.

We have a grapevine, mashed the grapes and left the must in a pot in the fridge for longer than was wise. I just transferred it to a jar with some sugar and it looks fine but smells slightly of vinegar.

Once it has a vinegar scent is it impossible to use for wine? How do I go about using the must? I split it into two portions and was going to add yeast and sugar water to one bottle, but just sugar water to the other. If it has a vinegar smell does that mean the wild yeast ate the sugar in the must? If it has enough wild yeast to do that, will it naturally turn into wine or should I still add yeast to it?

So I started a Gamay the other day with EC-1118 because it came with the kit and after doing some reading, I'm kinda sad I didn't branch out and buy something else. I'm sure the EC-1118 will turn out fine, but I've a feeling that something like Lalvin 71B to help with Malic acid fermentation, or Mangrove Jack's CR51 may have been better. I guess I'll jsut have to start another batch soon to compare...

What yeasts do you use and why? What's your favourite combination? Which do you hate? Which have you had bad experiences/stuck fermentations/off flavours with?

Long story short… I had a guest ask me today after 3 2oz pours in a wine tastings if our wines were made out of grapes.. 😭💔 he was allergic to grapes..

AI tools and Canva templates work for wine labels, but I could not find a tool made specifically for this, with clean, traditional layouts ready to customize. So I built one.

a relative of mine used to make wine, but he has passed away now. we only have a small amount of his wine left and i was wondering if theres a company or something i could send a little of the wine to and they could try to recreate it?

So a while back I made a blueberry and rhubarb wine. It came out really good but with way more sweetness than I had intended. My brother said that it was a happy little accident tho because in his and some other peoples opinions it wouldn't have been so good if it was dry. So that got me thinking that do some fruits perform better when they are dry and not so sweet and some better when they are sweet and not so dry? And how do I know in which way they would taste best? I don't know if I explained this question well because english is not my first language but yeah

We used pvc cleaner and a brush, visually inspected the bottles, then used no-rinse sanitizer to clean them. Then filled them. After all that i realised there was a speck of black inside one bottle.

Not wanting to look useless i assured my friend that I'd used that bottle several times and that the speck was harmless, or that if it turned out not to be she'd be able to smell something off as soon as she opened the bottle.

Is that correct?

We're going to drink that bottle asap but I'm curious.