Recent content by FlamingoEmporium

It will be 2 years this coming September. Lost a bunch of plants but now I’ve got a nice bunch. I had tons of mango blossoms this winter, but the trees shed quite a few from wind etc. I’m hoping to get enough to make a few batches of mango wine. Place is pretty much back to normal. Yeah...

Last year I made a one gallon batch of plumeria flower wine that was outstanding. Got the nerve to try flower wine from BigDaveK. So I figured I had enough flowers for a 2 gallon batch this year. . I think I had 132 blossoms in there. I forgot the pound of white raisins. I did add 32 oz...

I’m not gonna sniff it and find out 🤣

2008 Tacoma. I miss my 2001, but had to upgrade because of my daily commute back then. This one should last until I croak. Comes in handy for pulling stumps out after hurricanes. Finally had To get front brakes at 80,000

At least it’s not 25° outside

Looking good. SG down to 1.020 Then I accidentally dropped my hydrometer in my test jar when done cleaning it. Broke my second test jar. Still on my original hydrometer. ✊ 🪵 Naming this batch “trouble”

Yeast energizer arrived this afternoon and it’s fired off nicely. Very active fermentation. I added about a dozen or so Roselle Hibiscus calyxes I had in the freezer for color and hopefully a little taste. Looks like this will be a banner year for mangos, but I don’t plan on replacing the...

Yeah I did just that. And since we live in Florida and not an igloo somewhere in the upper reaches of Canada Amazon says it’s coming tomorrow. I’m gonna wait on starting my yeast until tomorrow

Garden doing good and I made some tomato sauce today.went to put it in the chest freezer and …. Oh no ! Everything was thawed ! 😢🫣. Big bag of chicken, tomato sauce lemon lime juice, and bags and bags of mango. Oh no. Chicken and everything else in the trash can, but mango was still cool...

Surf and turf wine.

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What’s the hurry. It looks so much better than the initial picture. There aren’t really that much lees from initial racking into secondary. I’m more concerned about headspace. I would siphon that gallon jug into one of those larger ones to cut down headspace and let it sit for a couple more...

Your two smaller containers have a lot of gross lees in them. looks like foam on top from active fermentation or maybe just excess gas. Some SG readings would help. If it’s fruit wine, I would personally carefully rack again and exclude as much lees as possible. A fine strainer would help...

I use the steam from a boiling teakettle.

“Ferment” in the 5 gallon and move to 2 one gallon containers when fermentation winds down welcome.