Hey Wade,
We were building about 65 boats a week. Now we are down to just 15 to 20 a week. We had to let a lot of our work force go. This coming year does not look too good for next year also. I could see us going down to about 5 to 8 boats a week. Let's hope someone wakes up soon.
Hi pbrblue
This is a link to a Cranberry I made last year. It came out very good. Hope it will be of some help with yours. One thing I learned was to let it clear for a longggg time. Mine was crystal clear at bottling and still I wound up with some sediment a bit letter...
Thanks Wade,
This one may take a bit more sweetener then I thought it would. My quality control person <my wife> after sampling a little of the bottom of the carboy said it has a little bit of a sour orange smell and taste. Now it was from the bottom of the carboy and it did have some...
I tend to get a bit busy at work and I am not liking having to scrape off labels that I just put on 9 or 10 days ago. So now my new toy at work came in very handy for my home drinking wine bottles. It is a machine made to make labels to warp around electrical wire. It works very well on bottles...
I have now racked my Mandarin wine for the third time. It has cleared very nicely now. I think I will stabilize and sweeten this one just a bit to bring out the fruit a bit more. Should be ready to bottle soon.
I had so much fruit let on the tree a decided to make a seconded batch. <Good reason tobuy another carboy. >Both have now been racked off the levees and campden added to each.
In thinking about back sweeten, I am wondering what all you guys use. I would like to use something other then...
Northern,
I find they taste a little sweeter then grapes and have a lot more flavor. But these you don’t eat the skins. That would make them veryyy tart.
Thanks, Wade, Waldo,
I am not sure what type of Muscadine it is. They were from my father in laws vines and he had them for years and does not remember. Here is a few pic I took of them. He gave me two plants that I planted last year.
Wade,
I have Adobe Photoshop CS. I open it evey week play around with it for 20 or 30 min, shake my head, roll my eyes and shout the thing down. loll.... I will learn it one day, but that may take so time.
Hey All,
OK....so I put the mandarin wine to glass tonight. The SG was at 1.006 and looking good. This is the pic just after. The color is a lot more orange then it looks. The flash made it lighter.
Also at the same time I bottled my Muscadine Wine. It was bulk aging for 2 months...