Recent content by smikes

Here are a few pics, I could be mistaken and I am surprised at the growth...

Much to my surprise , I have a wild grape vine growing in our garden. It will have to be moved to a better spot and wondering if I can dig it up now or wait till it is dormant.I noticed it starting about 10 days ago and it already is about 6 foot long. I have a nice sunny hillside spot for it...

Time seems to be short anymore, so would there be a problem if I sorbated, sweetend and add superkleer in one step.? Got a strawberry and blueberry to get moved to next step,as well as make marquerita twisted mist to make for my wife plus outdoor chores. :)

Much appreciated, Waldo. Unfortunatly a death in my family on Christmas Eve kinda dampend the holiday spirits.

Pictures a little blurry there Waldo, musta tasted some huh?:)

My wife and other ladies on her side of the family are into sweet, fruity wines and all have expressed their happiness with a sangria they bought. When I tried it ,it tasted like it was made with a concord base, some blended fruit and ended with a pronounced orange aftertaste...

Crap! Wish I lived near ya, I take some of those off your hands!!

SO... How much does a gallon of fresh berries weigh, and how many picked gallons to a 6 gallon batch?

Started my oaked pear in October using pear juice from a local cider mill. In April I backweetened(4 oz.gal)in attempt to bring the light pear flavor more forward. Ready to bottle!

Last year my wife and I stayed at Pemaquid point.We had hoped to find some wineries but were told that the few within driving distance would have only fruit wines as grapes don't do so well in that area. This was before my first attempts at fruit wines were drinkable. Now I wished I tried...

Unfortunatly ,I can't find a 5 or less micron in any store. had to order online. I guess as long as I do more than one wine at a time to get as much out of the filter as possible, I will just dump them.

When I hit the insert image button, the window that pops up,under paths, fill up with member names. The preview window fills with some foreign language. It then slows down if I try to delete the fields. Never had this happen before. Site problems?

Filtered my Strawberry and Banana this weekend and bottled. Is it worth to try to save the whole house filter? I rinced and stored it in a ziplock with kmet in the fridge.

As an update. I did contact Hanna about this and told them I boughttheir meter through another retailer and told them the problems I was having. They said they were going to give me a replacement probe since it was so new.

Just remember,Campden tablets,Potassium metabisulfite and Kmet are the same thing. Usually 1/4 tsp to 5 gallons of wine at every other racking is sufficiant. I rack about every 6-8 weeks.