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  1. Mtman

    What R you doing today?

    Eating and drinking wine :) you all have a Great day
  2. Mtman

    What R you doing today?

    I put 12 gallons of apple wine in the secondary's. Then juiced 25 lbs of mango chunks and started two buckets 12 gallons of mango wine I have never done this before we will see how it comes out. Then I juiced 12 lbs of tart cherry's and started a 6 gallon batch of it. I put the heater bands on...
  3. Mtman

    What R you doing today?

    Started 12 gallons of Blueberry wine . The blueberry I bottled two weeks ago was OMG to die for cant wait for it to age a while. It reeked of blueberry flavor I used 18 lbs of berry's in the primary and 8 lbs when it was done fermenting and in the secondary. Oh so Good Going now in the...
  4. Mtman

    Glass or Plastic ?

    Score I just bought 14 - 5 gallon carboys with wood boxes for $7.00 each . From some one getting out of the hobby feeling Great :)
  5. Mtman

    What R you doing today?

    Yesterday I bottled 29 bottles of skeeter pee and 26 bottles of coffee wine. I gave a couple bottles of skeeter pee away and was told its very good . Today I start another batch of skeeter pee.
  6. Mtman

    What R you doing today?

    Cleaning chicken /turkey/ coops repairing coops to get ready for new laying hens. Moving two week old birds out to the coops. Putting up new fence for the dogs. And maybe finishing up my last bee hive the new bees will be here in two weeks . Always some thing to do here.
  7. Mtman

    back sweeting my mead

    Hi All I am at the point of being ready to back sweeten my mead. My question is when and how and if I should use potassium sorbate and or Potassium metabisulfite to kill any remaining yeast before I back sweeten. It has been in the secondary about 4 weeks hydrometer reading was .098 all the way...
  8. Mtman

    Glass or Plastic ?

    Decided to go with the glass no plastic here .
  9. Mtman

    Glass or Plastic ?

    Thank you Julie
  10. Mtman

    What R you doing today?

    Starting a 5 gallon batch of Skeeter Pee it sounds awesome. so far 6 gallons honey wine in the secondary 6 gallons coffee wine still in the primary You all have a great day what ever you do.
  11. Mtman

    Glass or Plastic ?

    I am new here so far I have done a six gallon batch of honey wine that is in the secondary and have a coffee wine in the primary that is almost ready to put in the secondary. I am planning on starting a batch of skeeter pee this week end. My question is can I use the 5 gallon water bottles...
  12. Mtman

    Introduction

    Thank you all for the welcomes . Bill I am a very early riser usually up between 3 and 4 am. I am very impressed with what every one has done wow I say. I just got back from a local maple festival. Some one I used to work with many years ago come to find out he has bee hives and sells honey. He...
  13. Mtman

    Introduction

    Hi All Thank you for letting me join your forum. My name is Rick I live in northern New York in the Adirondack mountains. My first try at wine making was many many years ago when I was 15 or 16. I am now 59 :) . My first attempt was dandelion wine then I made a cranberry and a potato and...
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