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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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

well I'm back. Finaly got moved to Corydon Iowa it is only 6 miles from where we were. Not long after we got moved I had my 6th heart attack. This time they were not able to stint the artery. Got the winery moved later than I wanted but at least it is now up and running. Just before the move...

The last 2 months have been a whirl wind of activity beside the wine making. For the past 2 years we have lived with our daughter to help her out after the untimely death of her husband. This helped her be able to work and go back to collage while we helped her with the children (9 & 14) and...

I thought I would post this to show the newbies that those of us that have been making wine for a long time screw up. yesterday I started 2 batches of wine a 3gal batch of hibiscus and a 5gal batch of pineapple made from frozen concentrate. Had prepared both batches as normal then started yeast...

Haven't been on line a lot lately. Step-son was here for a week then had to overhall the computer which took 3 days because it was so messed up. then a lot of frute was ready for picking. I am also appling for a Ventors license (lots of paper work). Crab apples are at their peek now, Pears will...

I finaly beat the Amish and the birds. I have been watching a patch of wild grapes for 3 weeks now. Grandson and I picked 7gallons,came home and destemed them and put in the freezer. We had a little over 10 lbs. Will be making a 1 gallon batch in a week or two. Should have about 250 lbs of...

Have been watching the choke cherries for two weeks now. So today was the day to pick. I had cleaned the prymary ferminter and got the 5 gallon carboy cleaned and sanitized only thing left to do was pick them . Left the house at 9am got to the patch and to my shagrin some one had beat me to...

Have been busy today bottled 5 - 5gal. batches today Hibiscus Peach Citrus coffe Cherry Hot toddy ( apple wine sweetoned with Red Hots) I would make a good criminal right now because my but is dragging my tracks out. I had help though my 14 year old grand son. My back and legs are...

The trip was a sucess the grand son caught 3 bass. The total catch was 19 bass. two were 5 ponders looked like twins. I caught one and the 8 year old grandson caught the other. I am so thankful that I was there to see it. Life if definately great. here are a few pictures.

This week I have enjoyed natures bounty. Took my 14 year old grand son fishing Wednesday at a private farm pond. Caught 14 bass and 24 big blue gill. Grand son only caught 4 bass one was 4 1/2 lbs another was 5lbs 2oz. He usually catches more but this time he beat me on poundage. He did catch...

in the last two weeks I have picked 5 gallons of elderberry flowers. Have a bumper crop this year. I then dried all of them on a dehydrater and vaccum sealed them in 2 oz. packets. Like to use them as a secondary ingrediant in some of my fruit wines. Also like to make a elderberry flower wine by...

While going to DesMoine yesterday my wife and I was discussing some of the juiceses we were going to get for wine to hold us over before the gardens start to produce. I sugested a apple juice wine and my wife sugested to put spiceses in it. To make a long story short she sugested to put red hots...

I went to 2 of my favorate recycle plants today. Made out like a bandit 14 cases of bottles and 12 -4 leter jugs only cost me 2 bottles of wine. Now the fun begins cleaning and removing the labels , but hey I am retired and the weather is nasty so cant go out side gives me some thing to do...

Since my label program crashed and I lodt all but 3 labels i am having to start over.So why not come up with all new labels and design. Thank goodness I was able to retrieve all of my graphics due to the fact I backed them up on a disk. Didn't do that with the labels though. So here is a new...

I need to run this label by you'll for an openion. It will be on bottles that are given to friends. So please some feed back.

I have been playing around on some labels today and need some advice on this one from the prows