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Coming soon i promise! After the last shipping fiasco, I'll be sending it back in your awesome packaging. Just need to find a little time to bottle again. That was the last bit of the earlier bottling. I will send you some blackberry jam wine with it. Sent from my iPad using Wine Making

Congrats Seth! I knew you would do very well! Sent from my iPad using Wine Making

Well, I promised seth i would give this a review since he was kind enough to send me a bottle. I want to start by saying that since I haven't ever tasted meads other than one commercial offering that was terrible- and my own two or three attempts, I don't really have much of a base to speak...

I'd like to try one! I'll trade u for a bottle of my elderberry bochet if you want. PM me if you're interested..

Hah, that's a great definition!

I have some sympathy for both sides of this discussion. I say that because I do agree that the best wines are made from grapes. I have been convinced of that by my taste buds, YMMV. So I don't get too upset when folks chuckle a little at the idea of my fruit wines. On the other hand, I have...

I'll get to a bochet again later, they are tasty. But right now I'm hoping I can get a similar caramel flavor from sugar and caramelized apple instead. May not have to buy honey again! ;)

1.095 indeed!

Because- 1. I've been really enjoying a mix I made of bochet and apple wine 2. That mix is all gone and I don't have enough money to get a batch of honey 3. I love tarte Tatin- a sort of French apple pie where the apples are caramelized with the sugar that becomes it's sauce.. - I decided to...

Maybe had more yeast sediment? Last bit siphoned?

Or a whole keg! I would like to get away from bottles all together unless I'm taking a bit to someone else. We'll see! Sorry for getting off topic..

Cider is also really interesting to me, but involves me really stepping out of my comfort level- carbing and stuff... I have plans of getting a keg system together for wine on tap in korney kegs. Maybe after that I can go there- cider in a keg with a bit more CO2 to avoid having to carb bottles.

Sorry about the cloves. I'll take your word on that and keep it as a solid rule. I do apple more often than any other. Best juice wine for the price IMO. Seriously if you do juice with concentrate added you can have a wonderful table wine that even the skeptic wine snobs around me LOVE and for...

If you want more apple in it, put in a few concentrates, that will turn the water you used into apple juice, and cheap! Oh jeez, just realized how old this is, lol. Bet you got that worked out by now..

Monkeys not monikers, haha.

I've read that red green color blindness existed in other primates before our species. Apparently for social animals who eat fruit, there is a benefit to having some color bind individuals. Regular sighted (think it was rhesus) monikers find most of the fruit for the troop when the fruit is ripe...

Color is not really an objective thing (especially for you right?) but is actually just an interpretation our brains make of the spectrum of light our eyes are seeing. If there are no eyes or brains, there are no colors. As far as spectrum of light goes, that is objective as it can get, though...

Duster, my problem would be noticeable by anyone. Definitely not just a taste thing. I do use k meta as described and I do let it sit with the gas for quite a while though I don't time it. I also am a very prolific home brewer, and no other fruits have this problem. I know I'm not alone in...

I have done two peach wines and both had the smell. First was a gallon only and I dumped it, my second is 6 gallons of al fresh fruit, no water. First racking, there was a light smell of perm solution, yuck. But it has gotten better over time. I guess it could be nutrient related though, because...

Here's more fun facts on that. Chlorophyll is not actually green it only reflects green. But that's true of everything that is a color. The interesting thing about that to me is that it tells us what spectrum of light green plants want to absorb and therefore not reflect- the blue and red...