Recent content by desertwind56

We bought a larger fermenting bucket last night and transferred the must to it last night. I had the berries in a nylon fermenting bag and ended up taking them out and just dumping the berries in the bucket. Also added pectic enzyme. This morning the SG was 1.090. Okay, I couldn't leave well...

I can't believe I did this! Ahhh! :slp Current plan is to go to the local brew shop when hubby gets off and pick up a 12 gallon bucket. I'll dump the contents in to the 12 gallon bucket (okay, 6'6" son in law to be will dump it in the 12 gallon bucket). Then tomorrow, I'll steam-juice the 9...

:d Okay, I'm not really wanting to make strawberry rocket fuel. But through a series of goof-ups and my in-ability to enter the correct info in Winecalc, I have a SG of 1.110!!!! (I was shooting for 1.080). Well, maybe. I have a lot of strawberries (36 lbs) and not a lot of water (2...

Been a little over a year since I started mine and got it bottle a couple of weeks ago. It is my favorite wine project to date. It is so good! I'm planning on have a bottle (or 3-4) with some home grown chocolate covered strawberries this summer.:d

:u I started this back in December. I added sugar for an S.G. of 1.070. The acid in the juice blend was pretty high (like 1%+). I ended up using EC-1118 yeast. I was really concerned about the high acid content (pineapple is the first ingredient on the list) , but it fermented fine. It's...

Been a while! I got a few things bottled :ib over the past few weeks, and now I have room to start some new wine! YAY! Started some apple wine yesterday. Yum. (And bought a beer kit over the weekend :b) A few months back hubby and I bought some "Chadwick Bay Tropical Blend" fruit juice...

Final update :u Final update!! Got it bottled this week. Just in time too, my first batch of SP is gone! This stuff is just way too easy to drink! :dg

Okay, so I have a few strawberry plants that are producing right now. Enough for snacking, but not enough for wine or jelly. Anyway, some fresh tasty strawberries were sitting on the counter minding their own business. And some chocolate chips jumped out of the cabinet, melted themselves...

:u Took forever, but it did finally hit a specific gravity of .992. Racked it today and added K-meta and sorbate. Also sweetened a gallon and put in the fridge. :dg Been working on that gallon all evening :d

:u A couple of days ago I added the rest of the lemon juice (used Real Lemon brand), yeast nutrient and yeast energizer. It's been foaming a lot more! I ran out of yeast nutrient and had to buy more. I'm wondering if the yeast nutrient was the problem. Is it possible the nutrient I added...

Yesterday, when I added the starter, the starter was foaming. The must at the time was in the mid 70's. The starter was within 3 degrees of the must. The must today has been 75-78 degrees. The SG has finally dropped. It is now about 1.056/55. But it isn't foaming or showing signs of a...

Thank-you! I made a yeast starter, and added yesterday. Still doesn't seem to want to ferment. I'll give it a couple more days before totally giving up. :( I'm seriously wondering if it's the different lemon juice brand.

I started a 5 gallon batch of SP on 4/18. On 4/19 I added about 1/2 gallon must from my marionberry batch. The SG on the marionberry at the time was about 1.015. Yeast is Cote des Blancs. My skeeter pee starting SG was 1.070. Today it is 1.060. Which is where it has been for a couple of...

Recently made a batch of Wade's strawberry chocolate port. I used 10 pounds of strawberries per pound. Ended up with lots of strawberry flavor and didn't add an F-pak. Also, these were some incredible local grown frozen strawberries. I hope to make a batch of straight strawberry this summer!

Thanks! That's what I was thinking - it won't be around all that long! :dg