Hi all, New to the group but have been making wine since 2003. Recently my wife and I took a trip to the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, and then Washington) and...
Hi Chris, Someone will probably answer your question, but in the mean time. I live in the northern Ozarks, and we have a few huckleberries left, but they are...
... novice winemaker - it usually happens, after i have added something to the carboy such as more sugar or another substance such as yeast enhancer, or what...
When purchasing the syrup make sure that it dos not contain any sorbate or you'll have a lot of difficulty getting the syrup to ferment. There's quite a few...
Jack Keller's web site is always a good place to look for these things. http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques82.asp ... -- Regards, David Harkness [Non-text...
I'm into my second batch of apple juice wine. The first batch tasted great, and I got a number of compliments on it, but I never could get it to clear...
... I suspect the racking might be the key. From what I've been told, there still remains CO2 dissolved in the liquid to which the yeast and other suspended ...
Adding bentonite to a must or juice for clarification is a known practice prior to fermentation. The benonite will stay suspended until the fermentation...
The interesting part of the mess was that absolutely nothing was added (for over 2 weeks), it just start fermenting very quickly and foamed out of the carboy...
... kids in NC - what part are you in if you dont mind my asking? Im in western NY in a great grape growing area. Have many choices for supply. Again thanks...
I used the bentonite also on my 5 gall batch of Muscat. It really did not work well. The Juice I bought in the 6 gal container was very thick with must. It...
The only Huckleberry I've ever come across was the cartoon. I never thought it was a real froot. Now I guess I should look for Mooseberries. RC "Yes, I am the...
some one enlighten me. How close are huckleberries to blue berries? My knowledge has huckleberries a wild form of a blue berries however much smaller....
Here is the follow up story to Dave W's posting on Mice wine! http://www.beegs.com/?p=542 Cheers! Tom ... Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with...
... berries? ... They are very similar. In the wild, in Washington, the blueberries are low bushes, compact and mild tasting and the huckleberries are taller,...
The video is no longer available. Just to set expectations. RC "Yes, I am the grammar police and you are under arrest for murdering the English Language." ......
Oh my! Well Dave, I guess you could have made something overseas with your accidental creation. Too bad you dumped it - lol. Have a great day, Robin Vintner's...
curly thanks for the reply - what im picking for blueberries could be the sought after huckleberries, each year i pick them there not as sweet as the blueberry...
The Source link I sent says that Huckleberries have only four or so large seeds and blueberries have many very tiny seeds, that could be a way to differentiate...
My family and I spent a couple of years living and traveling in Asia in the mid 1990s. I can attest that the Asian cultures have many culinary traditions that...
In this country we have to settle for pickled pig's feet. The greater the island of knowledge,the longer the shores of mystery. ... Looking for last minute...
I have Geisenhiem that I started a little over a month ago (ta 8.0, ph 3.12, sg 1.084). I put it in cold storage for a week (24-25F) and tested it today (ta...