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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

found this link some of you might be interested in for wine bottle gift boxes, ordered the double bottle gift boxes to try, comes in cases of 20 http://www.mrtakeoutbags.com/store/wine-bottle-boxes.html?gclid=COGgv57M2bICFQcGnQodNX8AmA

put the kit to work last sunday, calls for 7 days in primary but this evening the hydrometer says to rack into secondary, a taste test shows dry but still a little fermentation going on. i moved into secondary at 5 days. fermented hard for four days . i noticed the airlock had slowed quite abit...

thanks to you all and this forum, i purchased my first beer kit. so here we go, now we start making beer and i don't drink beer. i guess it was in the alignment of planets after spending way to much time here watching all of you having way to much fun. so i hopped on the fermentation wagon too...

can someone direct me to a place to buy juice buckets?

bottled a batch of strawberry, one word on the label, SELECT it's that good after trying 7 or 8 batches, this one is the one i'll be making forever a batch of zinfendel thats really nice also, a kit wine

a better explaination is in order, years ago, before my father passed away he played abit in home made wines, likely 5 different fruit varieties, the bottles date from 1979 to 1983, all bottled in glass jugs of asstorted shapes, i guess they used what ever was avalible and empty? i've tasted...

70 pounds of muscadine in the freezer, with this hurricaine coming thru here i had to load alot of stuff in our freezers so now i want to clear things up abit. i have two batches already in third racking, i'm interested in trying a fruit pack to sweeten and add flavor to a new batch, these are...

well, looks like we're in for another wild ride, i live south of new orleans, about 5 miles from the coast on bayou lafourche in galliano, we're not running for this one, my home has withstood the worst in the past forty years and it's still here so i think the safe place to be is home, two...

well, the elderberry is bottled and stored in the racks sitting in a cool dark place. now time is my friend. the wine taste great as is for a young wine, age can only make this much better. i had a time cleaning all the equipment with the nasty stuff formed by the berries. backsweetened a tad...

trying my first batch of skeeter pee, as you recommended from the link you sent me, i added two cans of passion fruit concentrate to the mix to try it out. wish me luck!!!!! put a batch of strawberry to brew using four cans of country fair juice, looking good so far

my question revolves around the issue of storing lees or must to make skeeter pee. can it be stored in the refrigerator? how long can it be stored before use?

never had this much stuff in the bottom of carboys until i made muscadine wine. what can i do with this? batch of white and red muscadine