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Been a long time, but I've come out of wine-making-retirement. We bought a house and had planned to restart the "lab" in the basement, but alas the basement leaked, so that put a stop to that. We haven't had the time to fix it yet either, which continues to suck. Since they're talking about...

After letting a year, or more in most cases, I'm finally bottling the 60ish gallons from last year that have been sitting on my kitchen counter. "Why now?" one might ask??? Well, because we're FINALLY closing on our house!!! I took a yearlong sabbatical from the craft because I was running...

Signed up! Thanks for the opportunity. I'd love to try my hand at the Winexpert Island Mist Strawberry White Merlot Kit!!

I just never found the time to bottle.

I totally admitted mine hadn't been bottled yet. Just couldn't get it done in the time frame

Having extra time would help me immensely. Between all the hoops one must jump to be in the Habitat program, weekly classes, financial counselling, and volunteer hours, not to mention kids, family, 3 funerals in 2 weeks, and mentoring a few ladies on couponing, I haven't had time to breathe...

There is no way I can have mine done by then. I suppose I'll have to bow out. Things have been too hectic and I thought we had a bit more time. Oh well, mebbe next time

I should be doing some wine work this week and next week. On my schedule is some racking and filtering. If I can get a beer kit for the hubby I can see about some kegging photos. Tbh, life has been a bit hectic to hit the lab lately and its all fallen way behind schedule.

We invited my "Coupon Coven" along with their hubbies and kids over for a dinner party this past Saturday. They all knew I made wine, but were FLOORED by the demijohn and carboys sitting out. The hubbies were BLOWN AWAY by my husband's bock beer, I suppose in "man-world" any dude with beer on...

I suppose keep me in. I'm sure I'll find a minute somewhere between now and February to do something with the mess of carboys on my kitchen counter

If my schedule doesn't ease up some, I may not be done in time. Being a coupon clippin' momma is HARD WORK! But were saving like cray-cray for our new home. We shall see what becomes of my wines. Anyone wanna volunteer to come help me move my cellar this spring? Lol

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Scored an excellent deal today on wine/beer supplies. As I have mentioned, we are working with Habitat for Humanity to build our home. Part of the deal is that the hubby and I do 150 hours of labor each, 100 in construction. So for our other 50 hours we volunteered at the ReStore (kinda like...

Happy 1st wine-aversary to me! My first batch was "born" on 11/7/2013. Tonight we popped the cork on one of my first ones. Admittedly, its not great, but it's not bad... a bit sweet... but what could you expect from a bottle of juice, sugar, bread yeast, and a balloon as an airlock. Have to...

AMEN!!!! My 15 gal demijohn =full and set, 4x 5 gal glass= full and set, 3x 5 gal better bottles = full and set. But I'm looking at 20 or so pounds of FREE raspberries this week that would make some some fine raspberry/lemonade wine (AKA raspberry DB) with no freezer space to spare plus two...

I have 2 possible submissions. One is peach infused, the other pear infused. And BTW, if shipping is going to be stupid-expensy, I'll be driving my submission to Dave. At least I can call it a semi-vacation, visit some family, and pick up some cheap equipment on the journey. Assuming that's...

I'm down with February, with our home buying process, teaching couponning classes (and my own couponning), my uncle's passing, and the clean up of his HOARDED house, I haven't had time to breathe and be a wife/mother let alone a wine maker. LOL at my two kits and sitting on my counter all month...

Calvin has a point. If the rest of us are just starting now, how in the world are we to have a prayer's chance again the Tweak-Master on an aged wine?

I'm in! I have on kit on hand, one that should be delivered Monday, and I'll prolly end up getting a 3rd. Guess I'll see what comes of them

I threw one of my blackberry dB's into me last one to see where I would have fallen. That's all I have to say about that.