Recent content by mikejapan

Port style from frontenac recipes

Those damn robins are getting puckered asses from pellets already. I'm adding potassium bicarbonate and making a simple syrup to add also. I'm fermenting a bucket of juice with a gallon of grape juice added and the syrup and two buckets on the skins with syrup added. Did you have much of a...

You know the petite pearl really sounds great. I wonder if grafting would be an option? It seems like that would be much easier than pulling out the vines, even though I only have 28 frontenac vines. Sent from my iPad using Wine Making

O.K. Recalibrated meter with fresh regent and bought fresh hydroxide. PH 2.92 and TA (checked twice) 30 and 31 g/l. Looks like 25 vines full of bird food this year unless somebody has a better idea. Sent from my iPad using Wine Making

Been a cold summer here too. Looks like sweet rose this year for presents. Sent from my iPad using Wine Making

Maybe I'll just add sugar and make a sweet Rose and give it to my sweet wine friends. The last two years here in east central Wisconsin have had pretty cool summers, but this has been the worst. Sent from my iPad using Wine Making

Thanks for the reply, Greg. So if I ferment just the juice with 71b and then do ML it just might turn out O.K.? Sent from my iPad using Wine Making

I just checked acid and sugar in my frontenac grapes that are still on the vines. Brix is 17, PH is 2.95 and T.A was at 2.8 when I ran out of hydroxide. I was measuring T.A. With the PH meter and at that point PH was 6.5 so I still had a way to go. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can...

Just google " sassy homemade wine". That's the one I'm trying anyway. The apple pie wine I found was in the forum "Recipes" but I had to dig around a little to find it.

Sorry, never mind, I found it!

Where can I find the recipe?

I got mine through amazon, just enter grape vine netting. I think it's about 20 bucks for a 14 x 45 foot roll.

And make sure you use ties to completely close the bottom of the net or they will find a way in. I learned the hard way!

Vines to Wines is a great book for getting started but if you have friends with vineyards there is nothing like hands on experience with the types of vines you want to grow.

I sure hope you have better luck too. My biggest problem this past year was the robins. Even though I wrapped the netting around the vines and tied it on the bottom, they still managed to get in and strip about 10 percent of my 25 vines.