DizzyIzzy
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Dawg, I purchased 8 oz. of fruit purees @ Labelpeelers for $14.81 per jar..........................Dizzy
strawberry
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when you get built up homebrewohio.com sell premiums italian 6 gal carboys as long as the order is $149 or more then free shipping, i understand, i spent 2 years buying my equipment then 2 more making wine before i started here, the last two years i spent in hospital or most of it, my wines had set on gross lees for 2 years, i was going to pour it out, 2@-6's blackberry, 2#-6's strawberry, and 1#-6 caryboy and 2 gallons of pear/apple blend, i got with these people,,they helped me, turned out killer good wine,,, i've saved for awhile and just bought another 11 carboys, i've built up to 24 carboys,, 2-6&1/2,,, 1-3,,, 2-5's the rest 6's,, my budget stays tight I'm disabled,I would probably have more going if I had more carboysI had one with a chip recently that I had to throw out and haven't replaced it yet. I will love to have at least 3 more but our budget is tight right now.
dawg
you ever get a chance at home winery you can call in and get a half gallon and a pint, for a 6 gallon carboy, i buy 3 half gallons of concentrate to make 13 to 13&1/2 to make 2#-6's plus a gallon to a gallon and a half for topping up, are you making gallons,? if so 8 oz probably is great,,,
dawg
I'm sorry to hear about your health problems
. I hope you are doing better. I'm jealous of your carboy inventory! We have a general store in a nearby town that sometimes has 6.5 gallon carboys in the $40 range. I need to get in to see if they've got them but because of Covid-19 I haven't been making any unnecessary trips to stores. Not that I don't think another carboy is a necessity...lol...but it's something that can wait.
I do a lot wine kits that are ready in 4-6 weeks that we start drinking almost immediately. I don't have a discriminating enough palate to tell if they get better with age
The rest of my batches are Dragon Bloods and they are good to drink almost right away. I do prefer the younger ones in that variety but I have some friends that prefer the ones aged for a year or more. The problem is that I don't have the patience to make wines that take a couple years before they are ready to drink 
. Oh, and the fact that during our weekly Wine Wednesday get togethers we can drink several bottles!DizzyIzzy
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Dawg, I recently purchased 8 oz. fruit purees for $14.81 from Labelpeelers...................Dizzy
You've got quite
You've got quite a line of carboys and wines there! I thought I was busy with the four batches I have going right now
a bit of addiction?,, making it has become a obsession to say the least,,, funny , i don't drink much at all, but totally obsessed with what else can i make taste good, and from the start i always make 2#-6-gal carboys, of any experiment at least,,, i guess i just ain't right in the head, that lemonade and sangria sounds mighty interesting,,,
Dawg
where i live everything but the fruits and berries must be ordered online, the town i live closest to is all the way up to well over 600 people, and not a traffic light for close to 18 miles,,, but as i deteriorate i have started buying some fruits and berries, i have around 30 black elderberry bushes, peach trees, pear trees, and blackberry briar patches everywhere and a neighbor with apples and pears, but it is very enjoyable to take something and make something else,I'm sorry to hear about your health problems
I'm jealous of your carboy inventory! We have a general store in a nearby town that sometimes has 6.5 gallon carboys in the $40 range. I need to get in to see if they've got them but because of Covid-19 I haven't been making any unnecessary trips to stores. Not that I don't think another carboy is a necessity...lol...but it's something that can wait.
I do a lot wine kits that are ready in 4-6 weeks that we start drinking almost immediately. I don't have a discriminating enough palate to tell if they get better with age
Dawg
as for my health i can not complain,, the lord has allowed me a good life, and here yet i still get to enjoy tinkering with my country wines,
thank you for asking,
Richard
me to busy, naw i'm lazy, lol,, i have trouble understanding these young people now-a-days,,, oh and at the same time i'm doing my wine thing , i'm training a new mule, and gathering eggs from better then 40 chickens, i supply my neighbors with eggs, and i get pears and apples, banana bread, peach cobbler,,,
Dawg
you know what's funny,?
it is i'm lucky to drink a case or two a year, but i love making wine,,, today on training my young mule i put a headstall on her and for the first time ever i put a logging/farming collar on her, she never flinched, i hitched her to the barn wall and 4 hours later took it all off, again nar a flinch,, she should be pulling a buggy in about a month, i'm retiring my team, for them to just eat sleep and beg for treats, they got another 10 years in them, but i won't sell them, to afraid someone might be ruff with them, and nobody gets ruff with my babies,
Dawg
strawberry set back in carboys for bulk aging
DizzyIzzy
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Dawg, Homebrewohio now has free shipping on orders over $50. I bought two 5 gallon Italian carboys just last week. NO shipping charges.............Dizzy
you feel how heavy thy are, plus fedex broke one it was close to 1/4 thick. so fedex broke the replacement, so i called customer service ans told them that at other places added styrofoam corners and a slightly larger second box over the other box and styrofoam corners and the third carboy sde it just fine, so the new premium carbos are thicker and heavier then y other italian carboys, i'm glad i bout 11 of them, all 6's
DAWG
Not to Canada.
No shipping to us at all. Oh well, my 4 will have to do, for now.
that really sucks, i got lucky buying 11#- 6 gallon carboys, counting my designated carboy at the pump, i got 25, 1#,,3 gal,, #2, 5 ga,, 3#,6&1/2 gal, the other 19 are all sixes, top off jugs all 38-400 thread so a 6.5 drilled bung fits them all 6#,1,gal 4#,half gallon and 12#,pints, as well turn a small universel upside down to airlock a clear wine bottle, i try not to make many wines, but by aging you'll one day look around and say WTF have i doneNot to Canada.
Dawg
Oh my gosh, I lost track of this thread for some reason but so glad I popped in to see your post about the free shipping!!! Thank you @DizzyIzzy!
Dizzy how much finish wine do you get from 8 oz purees?
Dawg
DizzyIzzy
Senior Member
Hi Dawg............how the heck are you? I ADD the purees to my fruit wine kits and/or made from the fruit itself. Because it is so concentrated it really does push up the "fruitiness" flavor. For example, currently I am fermenting a Raspberry/Peach Sangria to which I added 4 oz. of Raspberry puree...........................Dizzy
hehe, yup the more flavor the better, i'm good, and how you be?
Dawg
I probably missed this earlier in the thread, but do you add the puree pre-fermentation or post?
hey @Dizzlizzy i am good how are you? been awhile.
Dawg
