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we had a good season last year, growing our own fruits and making wine, we had some really cold weather here down south this past winter, couple hard freezes but it did wonders for our peach and plum trees. a bumper crop of Saturn or donut peaches in the trees this year but the excitements in...

purchased a blackberry, a peach and a watermelon from home winery, all making some good looking batches of 5 gallons now. peach and watermelon almost complete in secondary, blackberry still going strong in primary, good prices and good juice from this comapny

moving some white muscadine into different wine racks earlier this morning and see this big hunk of something moving around in the bottom of the first bottle I grab, what the heck, a good look and it's a big slab of crystals, all the bottles, good or bad? a little darker yellow then the wine...

thanks, i'll try it on the batch of watermelon I just started, looks like it's doing the same as the peach did

no, recipe didn't call for it but after I racked into secondary the thing went crazy, bubbling now like theirs no tomorrow, oxygen maybe? primary was sealed with an airlock, seems like once I racked adding oxygen it went off . looking good now

first go at a peach wine, fermentation slow for the first 7 days, really slow, unlike any other wine I have made but I let it go, moved into secondary tonight and still a slow fermentation. but still going, still some sweetness to the batch, any ideas? I guess i'll just let it do it's thing...

after a rainy day yesterday we're finally getting some cool weather come thru here. suppose to be 58 this morning, been up for over an hour can't sleep, excited about the day, we're butchering two hogs this morning pushing 300 pounds, a tradition going back far, the kids will be here for added...

james, that place west of the city still there, I was a bad bad boy there years ago many times

I use the square tough tubs from eckraus, I have a few 9 gallons and one 14 gallon. I really enjoy using these tubs instead of 6 gallon buckets. I ferment everything in them and they're so easy to clean. they have a spigot too for easy transfer to secondary toddrod, bingo on the camp wine...

no hydrometer on this batch seth, this is old school, dad and uncle made so much great wine years ago, no chemistry equipment and guidelines like we use in todays wine making world, I have loads of muscadine wine stashed away from previous years I had a lot to play with this year so I did I...

quick question, when using the dried fruit, does it still leave the green nasty residue common to elderberry fermentation? we have tons of elderberry here in south Louisiana. in my area it's the common "weed" that grows everywheres. can't deal with that nasty green goo on everything so I shy...

we put up 80 pounds this morning, picked , crushed and set into primaries, the stuffs already burping like mad. last year we separated the blacks and golds but this year we threw it all together. we made a batch last year with a few blacks mixed in a batch of golds and it made a beautiful blush...

stress baby, I didn't keep a record of the recipe I used, I do remember I just took a shot in the dark. I recall I used 45 pounds of fruit to make a 6 gallon batch. worked out great . I even came up with a solution to remove the seeds from the pulp. so I used only the juice and pulp and skins...

I run right by that winery in natchez quite often and have never stopped. i'll have to check them out this fall when I go up there to make food plots

i'm back from a little time away, we're still brewing, I had a delightful surprise recently when we opened a bottle of loquat from last season, 16 months old and I have to say, this is by far my favorite wine, aging treated this wine superbly. any of you tried loquat ? I would recommend you...

been enjoying the other uses for the used juice bags I get when I start a wine kit, found that if I rinse them well, add a couple iinches of water when laying flat, they make great chillers for my fishing outings, throw a couple in a chest, catch a limit of fish then move one from the bottom...

I have three 6 gallon plastic carboys with spigots, I use them to transfer wine into i'm filtering then easy fill of the bottles with the added spigots. when cleaning i rinse a lot then add a strong dose of k-meta and seal the carboy until the next use. if you stick your nose in that carboy...

haven't been around a lot the pass few weeks, ducks have my attention at this time of year. part of our culture here in south Louisiana is hunting in a big way. been eating a lot of duck lately . I discovered it goes well with a beautiful shiraz I completed a couple months ago, not aged yet...

recieved a six pack of 2 year old potted plants from isons three weeks ago, some of the vines were 8 feet, i was in mississippi when they arrived here in louisiana and they stayed boxed till i returned. after my return, the next day i planted them, i have new growth on all six vines already and...

thanks wade i needed a good knock upside the head, thanks will stick with kits, waiting on a riesling ice wine kit now from the link dan posted question, whats an ice wine? never made one before, are there differences between an ice wine and a regular good wine kit?