FriendlyFire
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Any of you make wine? I know it takes some work and space but how easy can it be with the proper tools and location?
Any simple Ideas?
Any simple Ideas?
Any good website you guys know for wine making?
http://www.winepress.us
That's a pretty good place to start, with very active forums.
I've made a few batches of white wine, they've all come out pretty good. So far I've been very pleased, especially considering each bottle I make costs only a few bucks.
I've never worked with kits, only fresh grape juice from a local vineyard, and fresh juice imported by that vineyard from Chile. I wasn't nearly as meticulous as I should have been with the last batch and it still came out really nice, I was actually a little surprised. I've been making Traminette (a Seyval/Gewurtzraminer hybrid) for the last two years and I've yet to find one commercial Traminette that I liked better than my own.
Good luck!
Dry is easy, sweet is a little trickier.
I duly disagree with the above. Sweet is very easy, dry is harder.
Although the rest of the suggestions are on point.
Making sweet wine is easy, like I said, all you have to do is stop the fermentation (add SO2) and sterile filter, at the sugar levels you want.
I think it's interesting we have opposite opinions of the same issues. I don't have any trouble with stuck fermentations, and I have no temperature control (although the fermenters live in my basement, which maintains a nice ~65 F around the harvest months). The temps rise a bit while the yeasts are working, but have never gotten stuck.
I have no means to sterile filter, instead I use potassium sorbate and hope for the best. I still feel dry wines are easier if you do a little homework ahead of time, though sweet wines may be easier if you have the filtration equipment.
I think it's interesting we have opposite opinions of the same issues. I don't have any trouble with stuck fermentations, and I have no temperature control (although the fermenters live in my basement, which maintains a nice ~65 F around the harvest months). The temps rise a bit while the yeasts are working, but have never gotten stuck.
I have no means to sterile filter, instead I use potassium sorbate and hope for the best. I still feel dry wines are easier if you do a little homework ahead of time, though sweet wines may be easier if you have the filtration equipment.
Wow what a nice debate here, I was think of making the wine with out any additives but was told not to dear try it.