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I made this and it was very good, will make it again, I don't know what a shallot is but doubled up on the onions and used canned mushrooms (hey town if a long ride!!) and my dijon mustard is Frenches yellow...lol But it was good stuff!!

My Cascade hops are almost ready to pick also, but I can tell you from last year they get really light after they dry!!

After making wine for a few years now I have stopped filtering my wine, if I was going to be in a contest I would but now the Mini-Jet just sits in the closet, it's just another step that takes more time and work, and I'm short on time and tired of working!!

Your welcome, thought I would bump this up cause it's grilling season now, the snow is all melted up here...lol

Late for my own birthday!!!!! I worked that day but the Lovely Rita had Lobsters, Steamers, and Mussels in wine sauce for me and 2 friends who came over, we also had a bottle of our Champaign and it was a hit!!

The Lovely Rita is a red wine drinker and this Super Tuscan is her favorite wine, I don't put the skins in a bag and at 6 days I pour it through a stainless steel strainer into a clean primary and leave it for 2 more weeks, this way since it's not done fermenting it will use up the oxygen I have...

I have a small spray bottle of vodka to spray the spouts and connectors on my kegerator when I swap kegs.

Looks Great Scott!! Just a note on your White Zinfandel you are making, when I make mine (Spagnol's kits) I add 2 cups of sugar boiled in some water and cooled when I bottle as the pack with the kit is not sweet enough for most tastes.

The first year you plant hops it seems to take forever for them to come out of the ground!! Since I didn't know what they looked like I had to stop pulling weeds. Now the second year they come up first thing, the first year they have to get the roots started. I got a few hops the first year but...

I bought a nitrogen bottle and regulator so I can put wine on tap. I have 4 kegs with wine in them right now.

Cut off a piece of synthetic cork try 1/4" first and put it on top of the cork you are going to insert, then add or subtract length to get what you want.

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We got ALL the snow here!! The Lovely Rita has been shoveling all day. I haven't had any pain from this Hernia ever, some discomfort after the operation when getting up and down but I never took any of the pain pills, it makes it hard to sit here and not do anything!! (I haven't been able to...

I'm glad you told me this or I would have been calling the doc Friday night!!!! .......AAAHHHHHHHH........

The Lovely Rita thinks the Spagnols Super Tuscan is the best wine she has ever had, I have made 4 of them so far I think.....they don't get to age much though...

When I make the White Zinfandel I find it is not sweet enough so I boil some water with 2 cups of sugar, cool it off and add it with the "F" pack.

I had my surgery at 8am today and was sent home at 11:30, I have no pain and am just fine, just have to sit here and be spoiled by my sweetheart, Rita, She it trying out Red Zinfandel on tap tonight for the first time, I'll post pictures tomorrow, her tap handle is a big red lobster claw....WHAT...

Well, I'm trying to get caught up befroe tomorrow morning!!! I did two batches of wine last night, a Spagnols Super Tuscan and a Spagnols Rosso Grande Eccellente (something like that) they are both grape skin kits, my wife likes BIG REDS and Super tuscan is her favorite!! She said the Eccellente...

I'm going in for Hernia surgery Wednesday the 18th, I need to find a new way to lift these carboys and primarys!!! I was making beer the otherday and after when I was taking a shower, things were out of place, got my attention real quick, I have had no pain but things gots to get fixed.