Although you do a good job of explaining the beginner wine making kits, I'm still not sure what I need to purchase. I'd like to start making fruit wines and was looking at the Your Fruit Necessiti…

If you’ve ever shopped around for a new fermenter, you’ve probably asked yourself this question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of fermentation buckets vs. carboys? As a beginning home…

Hello Kraus, I would like to know if wine can be made from Welch's grape juice that you buy at your local grocery store if you use yeast and go through the process of wine making? Will the Welch'…

If you’re a fan of Belgian Abbey beers, you’ve probably heard of dubbel, tripel, and witbier. But what about Belgian Abbey single? If you like these beers you'll love brewing the Belgian Abbey sing…

Knowing the optimum time to pick your grapes for wine is a crucial skill that must be mastered before any vineyard can become successful, yet the "knowing when" seems to be the one thing that elude…

Those homebrewers with a competitive mindset will naturally be drawn to participating in homebrew competitions. Those that aren’t should still consider participating. Not only is it a great way to…

My question is in regards to Splenda as a sweetener. I belong to two wine making groups from Yahoo Groups and on occasion Splenda comes up as the subject. There are both pros and cons regarding S…

OK, let's be honest. Not every batch you brew will be the best beer ever. (I've certainly made my share of sub par homebrews!) So let's say a batch doesn't turn out quite the way you want it to. You m…

I have almost 4 gallons of Scuppernong grape juice that I've gotten with my steam juicer this year. I would like to know how to make Scuppernon grape wine with it. I was needing to know how much wa…

Brewing a well-balanced fruit beer, such as this raspberry blonde ale recipe, is no easy feat. You want enough fruit flavor to be able to taste it, but not so much that it overpowers the beer. And…

Howdy Ed, ...To balance the tannins, we French oak chipped the must at the start of fermentation [Petite Sirah] and at the half way point applied the Aussie method of Rack and Return to decreas…

OK – forget everything you think you know about British beer styles. Or beer styles in general for that matter. After an informative evening with beer historian Ron Pattinson, I discovered that style…