Dean
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Okay, so it has been a while since I have posted any pics. This ismy wine habit (habitat too). I was only going to post my lovely new "carboy kozy's" that my girlfriend made for me. I'm very lucky to have a person in my life that is as tolerant of my hobbies. Besides making wine my other hobby is motorcycle racing and she even assists me in the pits/paddock during race days too.
Anyways, here are the photos:
This was 3 weeks ago as I was planning my 2006 vintages. The cat is Coco. The bakers racks that I use are capable of up to 600lbs per shelf! Carboys are empty as I make plans to fill them all! Current wines bulk aging and bottled since then from left to right:
1 gallon blueberry, 1 gallon Cinnamon Cyser, 5 Gals Paklabs Amarone, 3 gals Vanilla Mead, 1 gallon Joe's Ancient Orange (quite dark due to addition of 1lb of buckwheat honey), 6 gals of India Pale Ale.
Here is the fabric she chose for my carboys:
Then the prototype came:
Then the Kozy's were created:
And then they were used to make some Happy Wines in for a nice bulk age:
Last years Vintage (1 of each):
From left to right, paklab Amarone, Luna Rossa, White Zinfandel, Strawberry Riesling, Shiraz, Pinot Grigio, Blackberry Merlot, CC Amarone, Chardonnay, Chardonnay/Semillon Blend,EP Australian Chardonnay, Joe's AO Mead, Prison Wine(Welches White), Blueberry, Cinnamon Cyser, and Port.
New Labels that Meighan my Girlfriend made:
Spare fabic made a nice wine gift bag:
And finally the current setup now:
It's a mess in there, but the top of the rack to the left has 8 kits waiting to go (All RJSpagnols at this time):
Rosso Grande, Grande Vieux Chateau du Roi, Brunello, Winery Series Shiraz and Valpolicella (with skins), White Icewine, port, and a RQ Monastrell Cabernet. The boxes on top are clean empty 500ml PET bottles for beer (8x24).
Middle of the rack(2 shelves)on the left has the "lab". Lots of chemicals like Idophor, sani-brew(c-brite), yeasts, energizers, nutrients, degassing equipment, oak chips/cubes, 20+ packs of filters for my mini-jet, acid and so2 testing kits, etc.
Bottom shelf on the left has corks, paper for labels, and a LOT of shrink capsules for wine bottles. I saw them on sale and didn't really think of the amount I was buying (3500), so I have enough shrink tops for at least 10 years.
Next rack over to the right has the carboys in their kozy's sleeping for a nice bulk aging along with many other empties waiting to be filled.
Over on the right, we have Heffeweizen in the leftmost primary, then a Winery Series Merlot with skins, then a Blueberry shiraz mist kit. Below that is a Czeck style Pilsner clearing.
I have a few more kits on order that are limited editions as well from Cellar Craft and Winexpert, but I need to get the current ones done and aging. Bottling time will be about november/December of this year for most. Mist kits will be bottled in July, and Beer will be bottled on a ongoing basis. The white pails on the racks were 23L kits from Costco which are from PakLabs.
About the only thing I didn't include is the space the bottled wine is taking up in almost every free closet in the place! As you can see, I don't take addiction lightly
Anyways, here are the photos:
This was 3 weeks ago as I was planning my 2006 vintages. The cat is Coco. The bakers racks that I use are capable of up to 600lbs per shelf! Carboys are empty as I make plans to fill them all! Current wines bulk aging and bottled since then from left to right:
1 gallon blueberry, 1 gallon Cinnamon Cyser, 5 Gals Paklabs Amarone, 3 gals Vanilla Mead, 1 gallon Joe's Ancient Orange (quite dark due to addition of 1lb of buckwheat honey), 6 gals of India Pale Ale.
Here is the fabric she chose for my carboys:
Then the prototype came:
Then the Kozy's were created:
And then they were used to make some Happy Wines in for a nice bulk age:
Last years Vintage (1 of each):
From left to right, paklab Amarone, Luna Rossa, White Zinfandel, Strawberry Riesling, Shiraz, Pinot Grigio, Blackberry Merlot, CC Amarone, Chardonnay, Chardonnay/Semillon Blend,EP Australian Chardonnay, Joe's AO Mead, Prison Wine(Welches White), Blueberry, Cinnamon Cyser, and Port.
New Labels that Meighan my Girlfriend made:
Spare fabic made a nice wine gift bag:
And finally the current setup now:
It's a mess in there, but the top of the rack to the left has 8 kits waiting to go (All RJSpagnols at this time):
Rosso Grande, Grande Vieux Chateau du Roi, Brunello, Winery Series Shiraz and Valpolicella (with skins), White Icewine, port, and a RQ Monastrell Cabernet. The boxes on top are clean empty 500ml PET bottles for beer (8x24).
Middle of the rack(2 shelves)on the left has the "lab". Lots of chemicals like Idophor, sani-brew(c-brite), yeasts, energizers, nutrients, degassing equipment, oak chips/cubes, 20+ packs of filters for my mini-jet, acid and so2 testing kits, etc.
Bottom shelf on the left has corks, paper for labels, and a LOT of shrink capsules for wine bottles. I saw them on sale and didn't really think of the amount I was buying (3500), so I have enough shrink tops for at least 10 years.
Next rack over to the right has the carboys in their kozy's sleeping for a nice bulk aging along with many other empties waiting to be filled.
Over on the right, we have Heffeweizen in the leftmost primary, then a Winery Series Merlot with skins, then a Blueberry shiraz mist kit. Below that is a Czeck style Pilsner clearing.
I have a few more kits on order that are limited editions as well from Cellar Craft and Winexpert, but I need to get the current ones done and aging. Bottling time will be about november/December of this year for most. Mist kits will be bottled in July, and Beer will be bottled on a ongoing basis. The white pails on the racks were 23L kits from Costco which are from PakLabs.
About the only thing I didn't include is the space the bottled wine is taking up in almost every free closet in the place! As you can see, I don't take addiction lightly
