Recent content by Robert R

Health issues have turned out much more serious than i hoped. How long can I safely leave reisling in a carboy before it starts going downhill? Might be a few months before I can do anything with.

Life got in the way, or rather health did. I'm not in any shape to be doing much at the moment, so Gail (wife) helped me with a racking of the 2018 Reisling from WGD I started in April, and both the Gewurz and the Reisling will get a couple more months in carboys while we wait on the doctors to...

I may bottle a case and bulk age the rest in a 3 gallon carboy for a while longer.

Mainly because wife wants to drink some.

Planning to bottle this weekend. I fermented to dry, but it has enough fruitiness and acidity that my wife liked it from the first sip, and she greatly prefers sweeter wines.

Sure am glad we replaced our deck a year ago.

Alrighty! Ferment is on, definitely working now.

I have a pail of riesling juice from WGD. It is about 45-48 F now, at 8:25pm. Is that too cool to pitch? I really don't want to wait until morning, getting ready for work and all that. But I don't want to be up until midnight either... Edit to say never mind, by time i stirred it up and poured...

I hope the kid got an A+++

I got my second Pfizer shot Tuesday morning. Had a slight fever at 8:30pm, 103.4 by 4:00 am. Yesterday was spent in my chair under a blanket, feeling like I'd been run over by a herd of elephants in the Sahara at high noon. Fever broke during the night and i felt well enough to go in to the...

Gee, if only i had known this 3 days ago...

It's a coke.

Doh! I'm slow on the uptake this morning... that's my wife's garden cat under the tree. :slp