How much is everyone paying per pound?
Local supermarket has it on sale until today for .99 cents/lb.
Thinking about maybe buying 40 or 50 pounds for a 5gal batch.
I purchased a couple pounds yesterday but they are not ripe enough. I will use these for eating purposes but may freeze a few to add to this WE LE16 Gewürztraminer Verdelho Muscat which is being racked from primary today. We'll see.
For the peach wine, I agree Bill, I think I am going to wait a bit and check at the farm instead.
You guys are killing me - I told the wife I was going to put any more wine making on hold until the fall - but this talk about going to farms and fruit stands has me wanting to start gathering more peaches for wine - since they won't be around in another month or two. ( At least not at prices I am willing to pay)
You'll often find the "ripe" peaches on the ground. I suggest you leave them there and pick those off the tree that are just about to ripen. Pick what you need. Place some clean towels on a table, place the unripened peaches on the towels and cover the peaches with clean plastic garbage bags. Check each day and pick out the now ripened peaches, quarter and de-stone [I then spritz with k-meta but don't know if this is really necessary] and freeze.
Bill, what month did you pick your peaches last year? Wasn't it until late August?
Well, so long as you have the freezer space you can pick or buy your fruit now, process and freeze and not start your wine making until the fall. No credibility lost with your wife.
Ok, the wife's been out of town so I went to the local fruit stand and struck a deal. Picked up 36 lbs of slightly over-ripe peaches for $15.00. (about 42 cents a pound) I gave them a 250ml (Half size) bottle of my latest peach wine just because - not part of the deal. She had already set her price before I gave them the wine. The peaches are really in pretty good shape actually. I ate a lot of the soft spot that to see how they tasted. Almost no spoiled spots at all - so I'm happy. Already cut up and bagged 16 lbs of peaches to freeze and after doing that I had just under 2 lbs of pits and waste peach, I even cut away some of the greener stuff around the stems. Still have a lot more to cut up but Got a pork loin to smoke now so the peaches will have to chill out until tomorrow.
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