Review on 🍷 Upgrade Your Winemaking Experience with Home Brew Ohio - COMINHKPR147912 Ohio Upgraded 1 gal Wine from Fruit Kit: Includes Mini Auto-Siphon by Megan Knoll

Wine yeast was dead in the packaging I used. I have so many types of bread yeast in my house and I kick my ass for not using any of them because they all seem to react to warm water and a yeast cap occurs form on the surface of lukewarm water. The "wine yeast" that came with this set did nothing. I thought maybe because it's a special type of yeast it doesn't need to be activated the same way, so I wasted a huge amount of our garden grapes just to have absolutely nothing pass through the main fermenter for 4 days. The recipes are kind of useless considering this kit is being marketed to aspiring home winemakers. The instructions say nothing about how to do something. I've had to scour the internet to find answers to many common questions you think could be answered in a few paragraphs of your big recipe book. I would also appreciate a cover for the secondary fermenter when I finish fermenting the wine. In addition, all recipes are given in % of the age of the calculus. For first time brewers it would be extremely helpful to break this down into something that is easier to understand/test (e.g. pH). Otherwise, the set includes most of what you need to get started, but you'll need more items than are available. included (never included). I would recommend buying bottles, stoppers, corks, a hydrometer, and wine pH strips to test for acidity (or tartaric acid age percentage?). MAKE SURE to get some wine yeast as it looks like the yeast I had in my kit is dead as a nail!