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It is expandale. Nothing is holding it together. Its just notched out. It was a quick job to show my wife I'm capable of doing it! I saw the concept and put it together quick. Next week I will be refining the idea to be neater looking and hold 8-10 bottles on each row. And I couls easily build...

basic wine rack.....redwood 2x4 and pine 1x3 and a jig saw.

thats what i do throughout racking. have my cane and i afix a coffee filter onto BOTH ends. that way most all sediment stays in the first and if some gets through the second filter on the end of the hose keeps most all of it IN the hose. just use a bit of kitchen twine to tie to both ends...

I used natural chocolate extract. I removed a small amount of wine and added extract until I got what I enjoyed. I then added that back into one gallon and I could not achive the same taste in the gallon jugs. I hit up the store today and got some lindt 85% chocolate bars and added 4oz per...

I have chocolate peppermint wine in the gallon glass jugs right now and after i fermented the peppermint leaves i put real chocolate extract into the alcohol. after about 20 days a gave a taste to see if it had imporved at all and the chocolate taste is GONE. i have seen on here folks that add...

here is where we are at this point with my peppermint wine! 3.5 gallons of bulk aging wine. added a little bit of green for color because the tea color wasnt appealing to me. added a bit of chocolate extract. the drink had a peppermint smell and cooling effect on the mouth. it has a bit of...

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i was in ohio recently and went to the local winery near the in laws house and they had a jalepeno pepper wine bottled with a pepper slice in the bottle. it was very mild with a floural green peppery taste with a bit of heat at the VERY end. it was really good. i assume they made it was white...

ill give baking soda and hot water a try first. worst comes to worse ill keep it for cleaning equipment. i guess i learned my lesson on this one..... thanks for the help!

recenty i fermented a bath of peppermint wine in my 8 gallon white fermetor. its an "ale pale" bucket and after i cleaned it and sanitized the bucket it still has a strong peppermint smell. is there anything i can do to remove this smell from my primary. any suggestions would be great. id hate...

update on peppermint wine! my peppermint (chocolate) wine is going along nicely. started at SG at 1.080 and we are still a few days away from it being where i want it to rack it into secondary. the ONLY thing i have a problem with is the color. i will be using green bottles when bottling comes...

Lieutenant Dan Band...... its good to be here. and ill be staying for a while!

listed myself on the map! no winery or memeber around me for atleast 100 miles! ugh, i live in the middle of no where!

Rocky. We live in altus. I work at the air base out there.

hello everyone!!! i have posted a few on here but havent yet put anything onto this page. in case anyone is wondering. i am from dusty SW oklahoma and i am a lieutenant at a DOD fire department and served in Iraq with the air force a few years back. i am now considered a disabled veteran...