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  1. Jusatele

    The 2024 crop year

    I am in north Oregon and have bud break last week strange hope I do not get a freeze
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    Initial TA for strawberry wine must?

    I make about 3 batches of strawberry wine a year I have never bothered with TA on them Fruit wines are different than grape wines, some of what we stress about in a grape wine we just relax in a fruit wine my concern in a fruit wine is having enough pectin enzyme and setting up for about 10 %...
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    What's for Dinner?

    There is a west coast grocery chain WINCO They sell bulk spices and blends One they used to sell was a rub called Back Yard BBQ I wish I could find it again as I would love to do a set of ribs here featuring it.
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    WineXpert Island Mist Apple kit .... adding cinnamon?

    Glad you found a sweet spot my experience has been.... I will never put in during fermentation again and I do it afterward but for less than a week, normally about 4 days now that is my experience, not scientific, just approved by my taste buds
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    Can I use canned fruit?

    If you read some of my post you will know I use just about any source of frit I can find, normally to success. One of my famous yearly wines is PIE FILL wine. And yes that uses canned pie fill fruit. I normally use bottled grape juice and with the pie fill and juice SPG I still add a bit of...
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    What's for Dinner?

    Dinner tonight lets see 10.5 inch x deep Dutch oven 1 corned beef brisket flat 1 yellow onion sliced 1 bag carrots, skinned and chopped 1 1/2 inches 2 bouillon cubes, beef 1 bottle spicy Italian dressing enough water to cover veggies trust me, no salt needed with the corned beef brisket...
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    Tea Wine

    Well David I like it and Qui's use of grape concentrate going shopping today
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    Tea Wine

    One Banana that is interesting thanks to everyone, these are all being noted
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    Less is more? Your approach to wine making?

    MiBor In that quote you did, I was referring to the good grapes we can get here and we still look elsewhere for grapes , And I do buy cases of Pinot Noirs here locally each year, Sometimes I take a chance on a early release that seems a bit off knowing that set back a few years it will be great...
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    Tea Wine

    thanks guys I am going do the search and do the do
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    Does anyone else deal with spigot getting clogged every year after fermentation?

    I bought a wine press for this reason I rack the must off the skins until it is just to thick to pass the spigot, then squeeze the @&#% out of the rest in the press I am to cheap to not get every drop
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    Tea Wine

    I have a friend who use to make a tea wine. But he recently past. I never got the recipe. So now I want to make a batch in his honor SO I am asking for a recipe from the board from someone who has made a Tea Wine
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    Glass or Plastic Carboy ?

    Ratfinger I love my Speidel fermenters, but not because they are plastic. I can get my hand inside easily to clean them, love the side drain for racking, heavy plastic, what is not to like. I have also gone back and forth with carboys. I get pissed every time I toss a plastic carboy because it...
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    Less is more? Your approach to wine making?

    I do wish that I could make a wine without fining agents, but I do not have the facilities to do such, my space is very small and my carboys are precious for that reason, so bottling is usually done way before a vineyard would. I usually have a wine at the end of a season that ages 6 months or...
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    Less is more? Your approach to wine making?

    Mibor even in Oregon we can get local grapes, or source from national vendors. some of my best results I get from a company that sells frozen grape must with the skins in it. My best old vine zinfandel I do every year is frozen must source from Lodi, the company I use to source it only sells...
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