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I have about 10 to 12 - 5 gallon and 6 gallon glass carboys. Haven't made wine or beer in several years and it's time to find them a new home. No shipping - local pickup/delivery only. $30 each. My zipcode is 72019 but don't mind driving a bit or meeting someone halfway to deliver.

Just tried my tart cherry wine that's been aging about 6 months now in a carboy. I was made from some tart cherry juice that I found in a health food store. Smell is great, it's dry and needs to be backsweetened, and the cherry taste is about right but the tartness that hits after you swallow...

For you grape growing gurus out there - during the growing season how much do you trim back the vines? My assumption is, as with pretty much all plants, you'd have to do some pruning back to keep the vines from becoming a tangled mess (as mine are starting to look like) and to get light into...

Started my CC Showcase Yakima Valley Pinot Gris the other day. Followed the instructions, added the correct amount of water, etc and had it all ready to pitch the yeast and dropped in my hydrometer. The sg was 1.100!!! Since I wasn't planning on a Pinot Gris port and don't really care for overly...

Was able to get back to my house today after being stuck at my girlfriends house since Sunday afternoon with all the snow. Ended up with 7" total here in Benton. Not much to you Northerner's but shut down pretty much all travel in the state including the interstate where people were stuck for up...

I have some Irish Moss to put into my next beer to help clear it up. When do I add it to the boil? Tony

A feral cat that hung out where my girlfriend works had kittens a couple weeks ago and with the 100+ temps we've been having the little ones were not doing well. So we put Mama in a crate with the kittens that were alive and they're living in my basement now. So far two have survived. Mama is...

I have acquired on several trips to the grocery store around 40 or so pounds of plums (a mix of black and red). The original thought was to make a 6 gallon batch of plum wine. I'm leaning more toward a 3 gallon batch of wine and a 3 gallon batch of port. I think 6 gallons of port would be too...

While not wine related, my 7 month stretch of unemployment is about to come to an end. I got a job in the IT dept. of a local print shop doing what sounds like basically what I was doing prior to being laid off. The only thing I dread is having to get up early in the AM again. Tony

I've been watching 4 or 5 spots along some of the county roads where some big wild elderberries were growing. All of them loaded with flowers. Well, the county folks have been working on the roads around here and brought out the mowers. I drove by the other day and they had mowed along the roads...

Not wine related (but they do go good with wine!), went out fishing this morning with my ex-boss and got a pretty good haul of crappie. 8 pounds total cleaned. Thought I'd show off. The one in the upper right is a yellow bass. Tony

Last night, my children &grand children and I were sitting in the living room and I said to them, 'I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.' They got up, unplugged the Computer, and threw out my...

I got this originally to make a fruit blend, but decided to go ahead and make it up without the fruit. I've made the Alexanders Petite Syrah before and it came out pretty good (it was no MM Alljuice I'm sure but very drinkable after aging about 2 years total). But then I don't follow the...

It's the middle of winter and the garden catalogs are pouring in. Anyone have any plans for additions to their wine garden? I'm thinking Dry Creek Overlook is going to be getting some elderberries. A couple American Elder varieties and possibly a European Elder or two. The European elder...

I've been aging a blackberry wine (1 gallon from 6 pounds of frozen berries) for several months now. Last week I tasted it and decided it needed some more berry flavor, so I cooked up an fpack with about1 1/2 pounds of berries and added it.I checked it last night and flavorwise it's good, the...

I was just wondering what kind of thermometer y'all use when beer making? I generally use a candy type thermometer. I have a couple and they give the same temp reading when I compared them. Out of curiosity I compared a couple electric thermomters (meat probe type) and a digital...

I was wondering if anyone has made/tasted wine made from the beautyberry bush? It's also called a French Mullberry. I have a severallarge wild ones and did some internet searching and found some sites that say the berries are used to make wine/jam, some say they are very astringent (I...

Saw this article and thought it was interesting. A company is turning red wine "by products" into a powder that has all the beneficial properties of the wine that can be added to other things. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090917111507.htm

I had two cans of Vintners Harvest raspberry - one was added to a Zinfindel concentrate and the other used to make an apple/raspberry wine. In both cases the wines had a very tart/bitter taste from the raspberries. I was wondering if anyone else had found this? I backsweetened the Raspberry...

My son helped me cut hop vines and pick hops this weekend. Arms are still scratched up! Ended up with 2 pounds of Cascades (the originalclumpthat's 2 years old and one that was started thisSpring from acouple rhizomes offof the original)and 1/4 pound of Kent Goldings (2 yearold clump that was...