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yes freeze you can leave the seeds in and the skin on them. Don't add water use streight juice. This will give you a wonderful pear flavor. I usually try to have 2 kinds of pears when possible like a bartlet and a cooking pear but it is not hard set rule.

Am cleaning out my deep freeze so I got to use my new (used) steam juicer. I had 15 lbs. wild black rasberries. I got 1 1/2 gallons and 1/2 pint of juice. Will be doing strawberries and then choke cherries tomorrow. After that will do wild plums, wild grapes, & pears. The juicer worked great...

Appleman I had another heart episode late this summer while picking wild rasberries and dewberries. Dr. said I had to slow down and have less stres in my life. So I sold the winery and am now back to doing it as a hobby. Actually I am enjoying wine making a lot more now without the worry of...

I just got a Mehu- Liisa steam juicer off craigs list for$50. It has been used only 1 time. The lady got it to make juice for jelly making then realized she could get jelly at Wal Mart cheaper than she could make it, and with a lot les work. Will be jusing all the fruit that is taking up a lot...

welcom Tim from another Iowan.

I purchised a color laser printer last year I get about 1,000 pages per cartrage and they are water proof. I use Print master and picture it.

Called some friends and we all have her on our prayer list. Please keep us posted.

Grew up in Sulphur Louisiana now living in Corydon Iowa

The cherry is fermenting like gang busters and has an awsum cherry aroma. The pomegranate has slowed to almost a stop. So all is well in Iowa.

Up date on ice chest fermenter. One big advantage to the ice chest is it realy holds the temp good. The temp of the must has held at a stable 76 dispite the fact the room temp has droped to 64. Then during the day when the room got to 79 it was still at 76 in the fermenter.

Just pitched the yeast on 6 gal cherry ( pie cherries). Yesterday I transfered the white grape-Pomegranate to secondary (3 gal.) I have some choke cherries, Wild grapes,& Wild plums still in the freezer that I hope to start next week.

Went to all the Lows all the home depots & LHBS no 20 gal. brutes. Had the 32 gal. ones. LHBS shop didn't have any thing over a 7.9 bucket. Went to Wal-Mart and got2 60 quart ice chest. Needed a new ice chest any way. I would have ordered from George but needed it yesterday. But I will...

I'm in need of a 20 gal. ferminter. Was looking at diferent types of garbage cans or square storage containers. I have forgoten which numbers are clased as food safe. My regular ferminter has the # 2 in the triangle on the bottem. The ones at Wal-Mart have a #4 in them. Home depot and lowes only...

Waldo the wife was at work and neither of us thought of getting pictures. I will try to get a picture of the Grandson with some of the wine we botled

I got the juice at Sams Club, it was on sale so I bought all they had which was 14 gal. When I got home 2 gal. was Boysenberry juice. I made 12 gal. I mixed the boysenberry juice with 10 gal. of the blackberry. Kept 2 gal. of blackberry for toping up and back sweeten. After fermintation I racked...

Today the grandson came over and we caught up on our bottling. 6 gal. blackberry port. 6 gal. black berry 3 gal. pineapple all have been bulk aging for over a year. We racked 5 gal. of pear and 3 gal. of Jack Kellers key lime-a-Rita. All of them turned out Grrrrrreat. Needles to say...

happy birthday admiral &scott I raise a glass to the both of you

I have done it that way for five years now without any problems

chocklet strawberry is verrrrry good. Use 1/2 cup of hershies cocoa per galon. 1cup of the must inblender add cocoa slowely while blending at slow speed. then return to primary and fermint as normal

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