Recent content by spinnychick

5 gallons? My hat is off to you... I spent an entire afternoon yesterday crawling around to get half of what I need for a one gallon batch! I'm used to doing the crawling AFTER drinking the wine... ;)

Rosetown is such a lovely area in summer. I don't get up that way much but I love every minute of it when I do. The bumper crop of dandelions is what finally convinced me to try making wine. I picked and prepared the flowers and then froze them while I learned the ropes. A bag of frozen...

Ok, that makes sense. Thank you! :) Although I still think the extra flavour is worth it, at least in this case. Maybe. I guess it's hard to say what it would have tasted like if I HAD been able to rack it sooner. Vikki

Perhaps I'm missing something and you're all thinking "Is she really asking that?" or perhaps it's one of those "because it's always been done that way" things, but I'd really like to know why all the recipes and instructions I've seen have several days in the primary fermenter and then the rest...

Update Hey folks, excuse the long absence. When there's gardening and preserving to be done, I'm not very good at being social. I hope nobody has a big issue with a reply to an old thread, but since it's an update I think it's relevant. :) I haven't bottled the dandelion yet because it's...

Ok, I guess that makes sense. I'll eventually have to get used to doing subtraction on an upside down vertical, I guess. Has anybody seen one with the numbers printed upside down? I might not get such a headache that way. :p It would help if the instructions that came with a hydrometer weren't...

I'm sure I've made a dimwitted newbie error reading this thing, but there are 5 lines between 1.000 and the "90" above it. The instructions say to read the top of the meniscus, which is sitting dead on the first tick below the 90. Vikki

Background: I have a 1gal batch of strawberry/saskatoon wine that is 22 days old. On day 7 I strained the fruit from it and put it into a 1gal glass jug and a 750ml wine bottle. I had taken an sg reading initially and while I was straining the fruit, but in a moment of mass ineptitude I kept my...

Well since my flowers were frozen and i just started the wine a little over a week ago, I'm not really holding my breath for Thanksgiving. It would sure be nice though. I might just hide it until the winter feast anyway. DH has his eye on a nice meaty beer kit that will probably be at the...

This recipe called for 4 oranges. The colour was rather unnatural looking for the first few days but now it's looking more like pictures I've seen. Funny enough, the colour seems to match the aroma. A general timeline is a nice thing to have. I'm not banking on it, and our spring was...

Oh yeah, hooked bigtime. :) I'm not big on really sweet, but I don't like so dry that it strips the enamel off my teeth either. I suppose I'll have to do some experimenting.

I'm going to be honest. Dandelions are what convinced me to finally start making wine. This spring my backyard was probably visible from the space station as a yellow dot, there were so many, and since I have always heard about how wonderful dandelion wine is, I picked a bunch and cleaned them...

I found it!! I just stumbled across a Jugzilla at http://www.homebrewit.com/wine-beer-carboys.php - about halfway down the page. About halfway down - it shows it in its little basket. 15 gallon is probably accurate. When I was offered a "big wine making jug", it's not what I imagined. Vikki

Thanks for that! I love when people can turn a very large boring book into 2-3 paragraphs! That's the problem with a new hobby... the "how to" guides have too much advanced information that makes my brain hurt before I even understand what they're talking about. I mean... my dad's uncle could...

HAH!! It's been a looong time since I've been accused of being skinny. :: I did say I could almost fit in it.... lol The name isn't nearly as thrilling as it sounds. I spin yarn. I knit too. That makes me Loopy. ;) The light is terrible right now so pics will have to wait. Jugzilla takes a...