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good luck on your vines Joe and Linda. I am battling an issue with my sole grape vine i planted june of 07... last year it had a bumper crop and i managed to get a gallon of wine from it. Selling home and the new owner plans on leveling off the garden and use it for RV parking.. Doing a little...

had a half a shot sample last night... tastes so good... and it works well poured over icecream.. Now everyone is going to scold me

We need the moisture... Snowy day project.. bottling Orange Choco Port

Peach Ice Wine sounds great, made fresh peach wine this fall and it was a big hit. Did a search on georges kits and did not find a peach ice wine...Was that aRJ Spagnols kit

just curious... I have the Cru Select Red Ice Wine currently in the primary and Sg at this time is 1.062. Beginning Sg was 1.151. Instructions say to proceed to stabilizing and clearing when sg hits between 1.050 and 1.060. My plan is to rack at mid stream.. 1.055. In your experience is there...

thanks Sadie.. Have another grandaughter 1 year younger.. they both enjoy some of the winemaking tasks.. they think its juice though. ThinkI better change their thoughts...could be an issue

lucked out on the countertop.. First bid for granite top came in at $3,500. Did a search and found a slab granite supplier... higher quality granite imported from Brazil (guess america doesnt have granite)... got it for $1,200.00 installed.. And the picture. Maroon Bells near Aspen.

natural hickory.. good eye. Sammy enjoys it when we mess with the wine.. as long as we get in a few Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders games... Oh yeah.. cant forget Spongebob

I am blessed with the opportunity to be her "Day Care" PaPa. She enjoys helping with the hobby.. especially putting the corks in the floor corker and attempting to pull the handle down. Only step she doesnt like is to check the fermenting bucket... holds her nose during that step. Great day...

Grandaughter Sammantha (Sammy). If she is having fun... that wouldnt be considered a violation of the child labor law would it?

Hi Tiffany. Certainly you can double your recipe... I have not done so, this is my first mead.. I do believe Waldo and others in the forum mentioned making larger batches... If you search in the Mead area or Recipe area you should find information on that... also Wade,Waldo,Appleman,Northern...

Whipped up a couple gallons of the Ancient Orange yesterday using wildflower Raw honey. This first onelooks a little odd.. Had a left over Kiwi and added it to the Orange.. Puffy clouds hanging. The fermentation did start but very slow, and not all that noticeable. Just used an orange...

Received a gift Kit from my sons.. Orange Chocolate Port.. How nice Beginning Sg 1.114 Sg today is 1.030 In this picture... little curious.. the foam on the sides in a few areas is white.. have not seen this before, could this becaused by having lid on and condensation...

Will certainly post the recipe...... if it passes a few taste tests. Certainly looks and smells good now.

Thanks for the input. Wine Expert Selection kit instructions require the lees to be stirred in Step 3... got to say i am curious as to why. Was not sure if it would be of any benefit to do that with the blueberry. Did not do anything with it yesterday... still fermenting a bit., will no doubt...

recipe I was using called for 1/2 pt of concentrate per gallon.... thinking maybe i will cut that in half. Before bottling would like to have it a medium sweet wine... will check the SG at that point.

Doing a 6 gallon batch from fresh blueberries. Following the Wine Expert "White Merlot" directions for this. Today will complete "Step 2", The SG is at 994. Looking over my notes I noticed at the very first step I used sparkalloid instead of bentonite The plan today is to go do Step 3, degassing...

Yeah, the contraption really works nice... i was mixing up some k-meta with a spoon and catching the fumes and remembered the salad dressing mixer my wife received as birthday gift... that she never used so tried it and no more dealing with the fumes. Used it this morning to mix up a little...

An unused Pampered Chef salad mixer works great for mixing the additives.. especially K-meta, has the ounze and mL scale. The white thingy it is sitting on was salvaged from an old printer/scanner - works great for eyeing the change in color when doing acid test. Flash still not working on camera