***SPARKLING APPLE WINE****

[NorthernWinos]

Cold, windy and gloomy outside today...a good day to bottle 'The Saturday Night Special' ***Sparkling Apple Wine****

Forgot to taste it....

What was I thinking....

 

[NorthernWinos]

Kept the "Saturday Night Special' **Sparkling Wine** upstairs in the office to try and get the yeast fermenting in the bottle....downstairs was a tad chilly as we don't light a wood fire this time of the year.

The fermentation seems to be coming along nicely as seen through the clear bottle...[the window of activity]

Will keep it up here for a couple weeks.

 

[JWMINNESOTA]

Looking good NW, I've got a case of Sparkling Cherry just started the riddling, think I'm hooked. Found some scrap wood and putting a riddling rack together, may make a larger one if it works out.

 

[NorthernWinos]

Looking good NW, I've got a case of Sparkling Cherry just started the riddling, think I'm hooked. Found some scrap wood and putting a riddling rack together, may make a larger one if it works out.

What is your riddling rack going to be like??? Please share your plans!!!!

We have been looking to have my hubby build one like this....

A member called Hammered on another Forum built it [yes, there is another Forum] I dug out the lumber to do it...just can't bother Jim at this time of the year to build it.

 

[JWMINNESOTA]

I didnt really have a plan, just looked at the scraps available and started drilling

Maybe next weekend I'll get some good wood and build a larger version, this one will hold ten, so not enough for a full batch, but good enough to see it would work and not take up too much space.

 

[JWMINNESOTA]

Turned out not much to look at but functional. Guess there is always plenty of time to decide what type to build in the future, but it is kinda neat to look at the bottles without having to pull them out of a box. Maybe two like you posted NW, only put together in a tepee fashion, that might be cool.

 

[NorthernWinos]

Looks good to me......

Mine are in plastic crates and cardboard dividers....

 

[NorthernWinos]

We have been dègorging the ***Saturday Night Special***...and tasting a bottle with each batch we do....

This batch just doesn't have the bubbles it should....?

I don't think I shook it enough when the yeast was working...
Live and Learn....Do as I say not as I do....

 

[Wade E]

Now that is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!