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    Help Me Pick A Label!

    yup, thats my story and i'm stickin to it 50/50 the only way to go...
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    Help Me Pick A Label!

    Dang, Ill never live this one down....hehe...(Kids) Anyway I like the use both Ideal. 14 bottles are clear with the light yellow peach....would work good with the black, and lighter labels with the boarders around the dark green bottles....thanks guys
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    Help Me Pick A Label!

    Hi All, My son and I have a difference of opion on our lables and he wanted some outside opinions on the subject. Heres the one I like. Fromhere he was trying to explode the peach a bit, so he came up with this.The abv% needs to be adjusted to 18.86 per Masta.
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    Math Questions

    Hi Masta, Thanks for the math I think i'll go with 18.8 on the labels. The SG calcalations are from the paper chart in the hydrometer package. Im thinking maybe a misprint and its suppose to be maybe -3.9 Its on two different paper hydrometer chartsI have 1.000 = 0.0 .995= -0.7 .990 =...
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    Math Questions

    Math Questions, Why does the hydrometer Potential Alcohol Content % go from: 1.000 = 0.0 .995= -0.7 .990 = -1.3 .985 = -2.6 .980 = -1.9 ...heres the first question second Question: If you started the sg at 1.090 and went down to 0.980 what is your abv% Third question...
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    Homemade Wine Glass & Cheese Dish(?)

    "This has been a topic of conversation on other boards of which I'm a member. Haven't thought of anything yet and using a gas powered saw contraption like I use now isn't safe or practicle. When I figure something out I will share it for custom wine making accessories guys and gals like us. "...
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    Homemade Wine Glass & Cheese Dish(?)

    Cuz then It would be an Oak Box and not an OakBarrel....hehe. Just Kidding, ...My wife and I had the distinct pleasure of drinking some fortified Port out of one of these beautiful wine glasses....it was very inspiring.....but I had to carry my wife home when we left Woodturners house..and she...
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    Interesting

    Thanks Wade, Yeal I just thought I would sit on it a while and try to make some san gria out of it next summer........Win, lose or draw....Im drinking it....lols
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    Interesting

    Thankyou, Thats kinda what i was afraid of. Maybe ill freez it into lil cubes and call it Prunes......lol
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    Interesting

    Allways learning. I Cooked up a all fruit (pineapple. orange, strawberry, apple and bannana 100% juice concoction) plus some cranberrys, bannans, strawberrys and grapes real fruit,.. Starting sg 1.090....plus added some strawberry bannana juice to it later to bump up the sg about 7 moreon the...
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    Dry Dry DRY!

    Sounds Great , My new Wine will be called All Fruit PEACH bomb.......LOL
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    Dry Dry DRY!

    Yup, I know I shouldnt have ...hehe butI did......doesthe harsh dryness ever go away after you back sweeten it and then bottle it?
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    Dry Dry DRY!

    Ok, So much for the high alcohol content if it has to taste this Dry. I backed sweeteneda all fruit wine with a lot of sugar (cup per gallon) and it still tase really bad (15% abv). Been bottled about 5 days and Im wondering If its going to lose that bad dry taste after it sits in the bottle...
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    Hydrometer Rope

    This has probably been discussed a lot. But anyway I dont have a thief or a thief testeryet, so im still doing it the old fashion way, of just dropping the hydrometer into the corboy. I have read treads where in some cases its hard to retrieve. So i tied dental floss around the top part of...
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    Cherry Mead Sg

    Sounds Great,I used 15 lbs honey and three cans of Oragon Cherry puree and about 5 gal of spring water. This brought the sg up to 1.090 and 3-3/4 gal of liquid in Each container... ( I think It was Masta that suggested the foaming would overflow if I had all in the same container) so i'll cross...
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    VANILLA BEANS

    Ones making gray foam pretty active the others not doing anything.... I realized,that last night I was in such a hurry to get it done before the Dallas Greenbay, game that I pitched the Yeast while the Must was still very warm....one had cooled the other was still hot.....So this morning I...
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    VANILLA BEANS

    Thanks Masta, Ill just let her go for about three weeks and go from there....,
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    VANILLA BEANS

    Wow, I jusy spent $7.20 yeaterday at whole foods in Dallas. Now heres theQuestion though. I soaked this bean in 10% abv wine for a while and nuked it, to warm it up and then poored half in one half batch of cheery mead and half in the other half of cherry mead. It was at this time thatI...
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    When to clear

    Hi all, Heres the deal, Crazzy fruit concoction, all kinds of stuff and fruit concentrates in it,been frementing like crazy for a long time. Started at 1.090 now at .990 and still going strong...Yuk,, as dry as a piece of chalk on a cold day.( thats dryI think...hhehe) p.s Dont know what...
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    Cherry Mead Sg

    Hehe, Yes I did buy one of the Beast...... George did try to talk me out of it ButI figured more was merrier. It has its place ....but mostly just a Beast....lol
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