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A belated welcome from fellow Colorado home winemakers.

Cranberry-Pomegranate in primary and 1 gallon secondary, and Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon in 5 gallon secondary.

Hi Tom! Welcome. We live in Rifle, over on the Western Slope of Colorado.

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It looks like the Simply Lemonade project is beginning successfully. This photo is 16 hours after pitching the yeast.

Yes. All of the fruit was exceptional this year, both quality and quantity. That picture was actually taken after I convinced my wife that she should thin it out. She really didn't want to, but was glad she did.

Busy harvest in Western Colorado this year...

Has anyone had success fermenting the "Simply Lemonade" brand product into wine, Skeeter Pee, etc.? It is currently on sale at the local Kroger store and does not appear to contain anything that might hinder the process. I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I was not able to...

I have an 70 year-old Niagara grape vine that produces regularly and has been trouble free until this summer. I live on the western slope of the Continental Divide in Colorado, in a small town named, Rifle, at about 6000 feet. It is semiarid in climate, but we had an unusually wet spring. The...

Cru Select Austrailian Cabernet Sauvignon 16 L Wine Kit REC-KT-CRUSEL-AUCAB-16L

I basically did the same as Rocky, but used some scrap wood and made a jig that has marks as to where the bottom of the label goes. It works as well for 750ml and 1.5L.

Well, it has been several months and my pear wine is getting near to bottling. Robie, you were correct, this is one of the best wines I have ever made. Several people, mostly family, has tasted it and they all love it. The problem is that I only made 5 gallons. I am going to bottle half of it as...

I have tried, but we just get too cold in the winter. Now, down the road and the mountain, in Palisade and Grand Junction (Where I was born and raised.) there are now over 20 wineries and hundreds of acres of wine grapes. It has turned into the Napa Valley of Colorado. I was just at Plum Creek...

Here on the western slope there are a lot of old orchards and gone wild fruit trees with fruit for the picking. Even along I-70 between New Castle and Rifle there are no less than a dozen fruit trees that never get harvested that were a part of an old orchard at one time in the past. We also...

Robie, The recipe did call for more sugar than I had expected, so I could see that being a factor and I have used EC-1118 both as primary and to restart stuck batches, so along with the room temperature, it apparently all came together for Mr. Pear's wild ride. I think you might be correct...

Robie, Thanks for the help. I think I will go ahead and rack to secondary today. What would your best guess be as to what happened to push the temperature that high?

Thanks. That's what I did after I cooled it about 10 degrees with the ice packs. It's now at about 83 degrees and holding. I was concerned about oxidation. I will check sg here in a little while and see where it's at. This recipe calls for racking to secondary at 1.040 and I suspect it is close...

No, the lid was not sealed down. As I usually do, I had a thick, clean dish towel over the top with the lid just sitting on it's edges on top. The lid also has a 3/4 inch bung hole in the top.

Okay guys, I really need help on this one. On 9-20 I started a batch of pear wine pressed from Bartlett pears in our back yard. It is in a five gallon plastic primary. The recipe is the number 76.Pear recipe from the Winemakers Recipe Handbook (the old, little purple one). My basement is at a...

Hello to Carter! Welcome Carter. I have been making wine for just a little longer than you have, mostly from the fruits in our back yard (Pear, Grapes, Peaches, etc.). I live in Rifle, Colorado. Where in Colorado do you call home?