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I failed stabilizing my lemon wine (skeeter). I had split it into my main carboy and a smaller jug, I bottled a few which didn't fit into the carboy. I opened one last friday after a month and it had a decent carbonation, if I wanted a low carbonated sparkling wine. I've always racked before I...

Ideas on how to source unsweetened wine base or grape juice concentrate for a pyment. I've only seen wine concentrates which have full amount of sugar in them or some cheaper base, while being unsweetened is a mix of grape, elderberry and apple. So, I'm not sure using a base like that would even...

I made a mead with redcurrants and wildflower. I used 3kg of red currants and about 3,2kg of honey, in a total volume of 10-11 liters. 6.5 pounds in a 2.3 gallons in imperial. It has finished fermenting, but I get barely any red currant flavor. Did I use enough redcurrants, or should I add...

I thought sparkolloid was discontinued in 2020, but I still see it being sold by LD Carlson. Isn't the brand owned by Scott Labs?

Have you tried to use Bentonite and Gelatin in a two step process, the same way as Kieselsol and Chitosan. Like them, other is negatively (bentonite) and the other is positively charged (gelatin). Would it be more effective way to clarify, than just using either by itself?

Does Mangrove Jacks M05 have other things like vitamins added in the package, like MJ wine yeasts have and how about their beer yeasts?

Hey, my campden tablets contain sodium metabisulfite instead of potassium. Can I still use them to stabilize before backsweetening? I was planning on using less of them because they have sodium. Just 1 tablet instead of the recommended 3 and a larger quantity of sorbate. is just one tablet...

Is using few hundred grams of sugar ok for raising the abv of mead? By my calculations, the mead is 83% honey for fermentable sugars. I'm adding berries after primary and backsweetening with honey.

Hi. I'm doing my second mead and this time it's a red currant melomel. I'll be adding 3 kilos of red currants to the mead after fermentation is over and I have stabilized it. I started this today and I'm wondering how much the red currants will add liquid to the mead. I just added sugar to it...