Recent content by jdrum

Neeshac its getting to be fruit season, put the kids to picking black berries, and any other fruit you can find. i do blackberry, peach, pear, fig, rasberry, country wines make great desert wines, staring form scratch is more labor intensive, but the finished product is more selfsatisfying to...

Rocky im glad im not the only one that happens to jim

well we do use magnets to remove magnetic black sand from a gold pan when panning gold, and it makes finding the gold eazier to see, LOL jim

just be glad ur not in alabama,(5 GAIION LIMIT)!!!! jim

i know they say only use 100% juices but i used peach medley coctail last yr' instead of water and came out whith a very respectable tasting wine. that evey one loved. i did have 10 lbs of frozen peaches for a starter and made a 5 gal batch. jim

i have 2 batches of scuffaidine 5 gal first run, 4 gal second run, first run was put down 10/15, second run a week later with the skins and yeast from the first, both sg .090, second transfered to secondary on 10/30, sg. unchanged since 10/10 first run sg. .005 second run sg. .998 as of...

im hoping its not to late to plant as i have about 20 darliene and 4 nobles and a carlose muscadine vine cuttings i started this spring that i want to get in the ground. got drip irrigation to set up. jim another thought look around for grape vines in peoples yards and stop and ask if you...

you can tell what it is, im thinking a little more time will improve the flavor, its only about 8 months old so time will tell. the other batch is smoother already and i may do all my pear that way this yr. last yr i canned a lot of pears, and used the leftover suryp to make a 1 gal batch that...

well im not a perfectionst, still learning. but it tastes good and everyone likes it so we will deal with the haze. i have anothere small batch to bottle that is much clearer (i think need to get pic of that for comparision) jim that pear in the bottle would be a great conversation pice but...

well finaly got the pear wine in the bottle how dose it look. i know why screw top bottles, well you use what you can get! it looks hazy to me but tasts gooood. first big batch of pear so im pleased. now to do better this year. jim

if you dont have rooting hormone you can boil some willow bark and leaves and dip the ends of the cuttings in the cooled tea and is suposed to permote rooting jim

i would rack and degass add k-met and let sit a few weeks. degassing will let even more sediment settle out, then rack again, when u can go a month with no sediment then add sorbate and wait a week and backsweeten to taste, add the spices now and u will leave them in the lees when u rack, or tye...

i backsweetened my mint some last night and it helped, didnt check sg but i think its up about .020 now going to try .030 on test bottle and see how it is. jim

the mint didnt come through that well for me when i made a batch last fall. i used pomagranit green tea for tannin, he spearmint was not young tender leaves so that may have affectede it, im the only one in the family that likes it cauzz its different. going to experiment with it some more...

great thirst quencher. i have tried to grow it heare in al. for yearsand never had any luck but now im starting to mess with irrigation for these muscadines i may try again, put it back in the woods where its shaded used to find it al over when i lived in ny all the old home steads had a rubarb...