Recent content by dbzlof

I have been away from this forum for a while and was looking forward to be back again. I have helped 3 people start making wine in the last year, and I make all kinds, along with beer and syrup. I have placed in wine competitions, and I do not judge others. Kiss my A**. Goodbye

It's funny, we as wine makers as a whole have deemed some grapes/fruits, like Concord grapes, as not good for wine. I make a lot of wine and share a lot with friends, and one of the favorites is Concord, another favorite white wine is the Thomson Seedless-green grapes from any store! Just like...

Ihave had a little tasting party. I however put my wines, mostly fruit wines, up against some of our local (Wisconsin) wineries. In my opinion, we have quiete a few good wineries here, and the results were mixed. In a blind tasting of like varities, about half the crowd picked mine over...

I have thought about starting a club for a while now. Well?

I got another one today and finally I have a fully intact perfect carboy from amazon! I'll probably try getting another one...

broken in shipment I got another carboy today, and it too is broken! So now I just had them refund my money. I'm 3 for 3, arriving in pieces. I guess I'll spend a little more at the local wine shop, but I'll actually have a carboy to use. Something to be said for shopping local.

I got the last two in stock! They should be delivered in about 10 days. I just bought a third one, and it won't ship for 5 to 7 weeks. Either way if you don't need it soon, it's an awesome deal.

I jsut bought the last 2 they had in stock! Wow, thats a great price.

The hydrometer showed 1.000 so I racked it and checked the alcohol, and it was at 10%. It never fails I always get 16% ABV, so I tried to get this one down to 12, so I didn't add that much sugar from the start. My starting sg was 1.080. I only added 1.5 cups of sugar when I racked it just to...

I've got a 6.5 gal batch of concord going now too, and I also had a fast fermentation. When I racked it to the secondary, I checked the alcohol and it was at about 10% so I did add more sugar to get it to about 12%, and that seemed to be slower. My batch two years ago took about six moths to...

Currently I have 6 gallons of strawberry, 6 gallons of peach, 2 gallons of banana, 8 gallons of dry blueberry and 12 gallons of sweet blueberry, and today I just started 6 gallons of red currant. I just looked at the mulberry tree today...and I think that's next! Last year I made 15...

I put myself on the map. There arent too many aroud here!

I'm near Manitowoc, and want to get a club going too! Dale

I made a perry last fall and it is great! I used ripe apples and green pears(not quite ripe, but not sour). If remember right it was about 40% pears and 60% apples. It was a nice smooth juice and the wine really cleared out nice. We didn't back sweeten it at all, but it turned out to be...

We used a juicer for the first time last fall with pairs off our tree. We had enough for a six gallon batch of wine we just bottled in fact. It turned out great. Half we left dry, and half we sweetened. At first we didn't know what to expect, there was a lot of pulp, but it seemed to settle...