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The Turkey Bird is in the oven. Everyone have a good Thanksgivin!!

I always taste test my wine several times when bottling and then labeling, since I stopped taste testing before I labeled, my bottle stopped moving.... well so much!

Mike, they need to remember when it is cooked and on the table it is just "Chicken" Jim

Sometimes my wife makes me ferment faster!!!!!!!!!!

Property Room.com has a large beer keg for sale, bid has been $1.00 for a while. Here is the link - http://www.propertyroom.com/ItemDetails.aspx?l=7972483.

It look's like a sad day in Sterling, sorry for the loss. My wife saw the photos and said that had better not happen in her house....guess I may be relocating!

George at The Wine Makers Toy Store made 5 batches of wine using 5 different water sources little over a year ago. You might want to check with George and see what the results were.

Thanks another great aid for us.

fifthhorsm, You have been a member here how long. I have never seen anyone do what you did here in this forum. I have only been doing this a little over a year and have messed up a lot trying to learn how to make a good wine and no one has treated me like you did Georges. There is a lot of...

I will be racking my 2 wines today, a White Zin and Chardonnay and start degassing. We have family on the way for the weekend. the wife would like me be through with the wine activities by then, I will have to tell her you can not rush the wine. She also has to remember when she is not at home I...

LUC, thank you for the information. I feel a lot better about the pectic enzyme. I will increase the amount of enzyme when I begin as I will have increased the amount of fruit also. I have harvested a lot of fruit and have begun removing the seeds, which are large for the size of the fruit...

I have prepared and frozen 15.5 quarts which weighs 19 lbs. So I need 17 more lbs. My fingers look like prunes. I have a neighbor who has a tree also and he will let me harvest from it if I need more. Well lunch is over back to slice, dice and freeze.

I am still harvesting Loquats and seeding them, I keep telling myself I am having fun!!

Well, my education continues, I have harvested and 80 lbs of loquats and have what appears to be about another 40 lbs to go. I have seeded 6 quarts and I am afraid to weigh them and come to the reality that I may not have enough for a 6 gallon batch. One thing that may happen is the loquat tree...

Has anyone heard from the uglybamaguy? He lives on the south side of Birmingham, Alabama and may have been caught up in the tornadoes last week. I think we have two more members in north Alabama, the map is down and I could not find out where they were located but I believe one in Decatur and...

Thanks SBWs and Mike. Mike this is from Wikipedia “Though loquats are not related botanically to kumquats, the terms originate in the same Chinese word designating "orange." The loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) is a fruit tree in the family Rosaceae, indigenous to southeastern China. It was...

jtstar - thank you, you have been a lot's of help. Now all I have to do is continue to harvest the loquats and then decide which yeast to use. I plan on Lalvin 71B or ICV D47, looking at the yeast charts I think either will be ok unless someone else has a better suggestion. I want to get this...

ststar - thanks. that is how I came across the problem with the amount. If I do put too much enzyme in, I wonder what the effects would be? Like I said this is my first try at a fruit wine what little I have done are 6 kits. Jim

Morris Vineyard, in Tennessee, produces over twenty-eight different varieties of Muscadines. This may be another source for Muscadines for some of you. www.morrisvineyard.com Jim

I retired 2 years ago and I have not missed going to work at all. I hope it works as well for you. Now your function is to spoil the grandchildren even more, you now have more time to plan, plot and scheme. Be Happy Jim