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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

Anyone here make homemade wine?

What is "acid blend" as an ingredient?
Siphon off "lees".... what's that?


What's the shelf life on  "wine yeast & nutrient"?


I would like to make prickly pear cactus wine - the pears are in.



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On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> Anyone here make homemade wine?
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Yes. Yesterday we made dry peach wine. The peaches are out of this world
this year.

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> What is "acid blend" as an ingredient?
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A blend of 3 acids, it helps stabilizes the wine, brings out the "fruitness"
and other things.

Siphon off "lees".... what's that?
>

After you take out the netted bag, some fruit particles settle to the
bottom. The "lees" are the gunky particulate matter.

What's the shelf life on  "wine yeast & nutrient"?
>

Sometimes printed on the side of hte package. Yeast packets kept in the
fridge and nutrient in a cool dry pantry or other suitable spot. Lasts a
long time.

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> I would like to make prickly pear cactus wine - the pears are in.
>

Go for it. If you want a drier wine, you use less sugar. My dry wine recipe
calls for 5# of sugar to 10-12# of fruit in a 6 gallon bucket. Use 5 gallons
of water = 5 gallons of wine. If you want sweeter wine, you add more sugar.
Search for recipes online.

Seal the wine well at every stage. A few fruit flies will ruin your wine.

Good luck!

lkvp

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