jswordy
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Can this marriage of European grapes and American grapes cross the cultural divide to achieve harmony? Stay tuned!
Added my yeast starter this morning to a must for a wine I'm calling "Mixed Marriage" - two 2-year-old WineXpert white wine kits hydrated to 10 gallons, plus 35 pounds of Black Beauty muscadines. AND the remains of a sampler jar of elderberry wine base I was sent as a tester. It should finish at about 13 or 14 gallons.
The yeast is two 2-year-old packs of RC-212 out of my fridge. That's why I made a starter - to be sure they lived! And they took right off. I chose the 212 because it has excellent color stripping abilities, to better work on the muscadines and darken up the wine, and it will stop short of eating up all the sugar. That's good because I am bouncing around at 1.100-1.110 after adding the muscadines, with no chaptalization required! No need to make a rocket fuel.
One of the kits has an f-pac with it, and I plan to divide it up among the carboys after stabilization.
This cleans out my freezer of the last of my stored fruit stocks and gets those two kits out from behind my favorite chair.
So, that was Job #1 today ... Now to go get ice to prepare for my beer boil, a personal Extra Special Bitter ale recipe I call Red-Headed Stepchild.
Added my yeast starter this morning to a must for a wine I'm calling "Mixed Marriage" - two 2-year-old WineXpert white wine kits hydrated to 10 gallons, plus 35 pounds of Black Beauty muscadines. AND the remains of a sampler jar of elderberry wine base I was sent as a tester. It should finish at about 13 or 14 gallons.
The yeast is two 2-year-old packs of RC-212 out of my fridge. That's why I made a starter - to be sure they lived! And they took right off. I chose the 212 because it has excellent color stripping abilities, to better work on the muscadines and darken up the wine, and it will stop short of eating up all the sugar. That's good because I am bouncing around at 1.100-1.110 after adding the muscadines, with no chaptalization required! No need to make a rocket fuel.
One of the kits has an f-pac with it, and I plan to divide it up among the carboys after stabilization.
This cleans out my freezer of the last of my stored fruit stocks and gets those two kits out from behind my favorite chair.
So, that was Job #1 today ... Now to go get ice to prepare for my beer boil, a personal Extra Special Bitter ale recipe I call Red-Headed Stepchild.
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