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Hi Jen, I'll check the S.G. and taste first but what you suggest should do the trick. Thanks, timber

Thanks for the reply, I will do as you suggest. timber

Hi Bernard, Didn't mean to distract from your question, just thinking out loud. I bet that's going to be a great wine. I think you probably are right on track in submerging the flowers. Sanitized marbles in a nylon mesh would probably work well, especially if you don't pack the flowers in the...

Hi Bub, Secondaries look about perfect to me. You should be good to go until bottling time. If you are planning on bulk aging in the same bottles then you might top off with a little dry white wine or even water shouldn't make much of a difference since they are so close to full now. If it were...

Nice ... thanks for the info Steve! I bet it's delightful. Enjoy, timber

Hi, Did you add any water when you did this? Thanks, timber

Hi, Welcome to the forum, great place, you'll like the friendly, helpful folks here ... I know I do. Dave

Got some free plums and nectarines so I made up a 1 gal batch which is in the Primary now. My wife doesn't like the Dry Red wines that I prefer so I thought I'd make up some Sweet Plum/ Nectarine to see if she likes it. I was going off one of Jack Keller's recipes for Sweet Plum wine but messed...

Don't have an apple crusher so I tried using a Jack LaLanne juicer with 15 lbs of Apples. Method seems to work alright for this amount but would not be appropriate for a very large quantity. Ended up with more pulp than extracted juice so I just put the pulp into a strainer bag along with the...

Hi Bernard, Why not just let your mead run it's course. No doubt it's very different than what you are used to (honey instead of sugar) but my guess is that there is still a good deal of fermentation yet to happen at this point (and flavors will change considerably). Even when using sugar a...

Yeast Tossed today

Started a 4 gal batch of (Dry) Blackberry Wine today. Froze the berries then put in primary in strainer bag. I added some raisins in separate bag and added some Welches grape concentrate along with sugar and basic starting ingreedients. I'll toss the yeast tomorrow. Next will be a 5 gal batch of...

I worked on a Country Wine making Log (spreadsheet) so I can keep a record of my wines on my laptop. Using my (paper) logbook, I was neglecting to get all the information written down so I thought I'd try this instead. Next on my list is a 5 gal batch of blackberry/ apple wine and some rhubarb...

Hi All, I revised the wine log for making Country Wines (got original from Tom [moderator here]). I made it fit on a single page ... then added second page for adding a Recipe. (Recipe can be Cut & Paste from a web page) Other modifications noted in posts above (e.g. calculating correct ABV...

http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/f65/wine-making-log-openoffice-spreadsheet-46671/#post528763 Excel spreadsheet is at the link above. As for the PDF file, you probably need to download Adobe Reader to view it. (It's free) Elmer has a good point about keeping it all on one page, I think...