Strawberries

Bareback said:

I have one those long plastic spoons that will reach to the bottom of the carboy and I chuck it up in my 1/2” drill and I use a rubber stopper ( that I over sized the hole just for this purpose ) to keep out trash while degassing. They make a drill attachment and it sells for close to a 100$ at the shop close to me but I find that my spoon trick works fine.

I have a friend who doesn’t bother with degassing , however he also doesn’t bother with sobering up either.

I live in the Deep South and I make a lot of muscadine wine because they’re free and prolific growers here. The wine is sweet and usually around 15% alcohol.

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GroBud said:

I've been just doing gallons for about 3 years. I try for 18 to 20% that blueberry hits the spot unusually dont back sweeten. BlackBerry is good too. Got going now is orange just for shits and giggles may be good tho, also a black and blue berry mix, and a blue berry. Appreciate the information. Keep saying I'm going to do 5 gallons I've got the bucket and carboy. Just alot of fruit lol I'l add more than recipe calls for not much about a pound using 4 to 4 1/2 maybe 5 pounds per gallon depending on fruit winds up making around 2 tho regardless how much juice I get I'll still add a gallon of water. Then I'l save some of the extra to top off after racking. If you do back sweeten and haven't tried the cotton candy sugars that's pretty good. Used watermelon and strawberry so far.

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