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It's early 2024 but in Plymouth/Amador county, it is shaping to be like 2023. If you track growing degree days (which I do), we are...

I want to protect my barrel until the fall so it looks like the best way for me is to use sulfur discs. However, I am getting...

It's amazingly difficult to feel superior when everyone's solution also works. 🤣 All joking aside, it's good to know that we have many...

I guess I do things slightly different. Since one cup of wine must contains around 60 grams of sugar at 25 Brix, I skip the sugar and...

Really nice job, congrats.

And as reward for all that work --- no leaks for the last 18 hours.

I decided not to glue the pieces together, I wanted to try and use the existing beautiful dove tails. I took @Brant advice and decided...

You're middle/slightly cold for most grapes if I know SLC weather at all. That late of a harvest is worrying, your growing season for...

Amador county has a great site for getting grapes. It's just up the hill from Lodi. Let me know if you want the link.

Go Hawkeyes!

Hi everyone! I can’t really say that I’m new here as I’ve been following this site for a few years now. Last year I got around to...

Our daughter’s college graduation is coming up next month so I bottled the Twisted Mist Cosmo and Blue Hawaiian summer wines in...

It isn't traditional to glue heads together. When barrels were common for everyday use, the glue of that time was animal based hide glue...

If memory serves, I believe I seen some where they had dowels helping keep the sections aligned. However, I could be mistaken. If u...

Because everything has to be as hard as possible... These heads are not glued together.