Recent content by Cash Peters

Hi all, this is my 4th batch of homemade wine and I have mold in some of the buckets. I picked 5 five gallon buckets of each, cab sav and merlot. Crushed them in my new enoitalia crusher destemmer. Caught them in a new been that I rinsed out with campden tablet water and transferred them to...

Hydrometer is at .993. I’m unfamiliar with splash racking, can you elaborate?

Alright folks, rookie back here. Everything SEEMS to be going well, I've had the brew in the final glass fermentation containers for a while now and the fermentation seems to be nearing completion. Here's the issue, I already pulled the brew out of their glass containers (one 5 gallon carboy and...

Awesome! Thanks!

Thumbnail by Cash Peters posted Sep 28, 2019 at 4:35 PM So it looks like I may have jumped the gun on worrying about this... As I pushed all the grapes back under the liquid level this afternoon, I noticed that now all 3 buckets have the same haziness on the juice bubbles. Is this a normal part...

Near Stockton. They were pretty neglected, as they're being torn out this winter. Didn't even get irrigated, they're going to be some desert grapes for sure.

Well thats good to hear, just seems strange that it's only in one bucket, the other two look pretty clear. I will try to get pictures up later

Hello there from sunny California. My name is Cash and I live in the central valley. I work for an irrigation district here and found myself with the opportunity to get some free Grenache grapes, so I bought all the supplies and jumped at the chance. I've always enjoyed the idea of a somewhat...

Good morning ladies and gents, total newb here working on my first ever batch. It's a Grenache that I picked the grapes local. Some back ground: I picked the grapes, five 5 gallon buckets full. It took me about 48 hours from picking from the vine to have all the grapes de-stemmed, crushed and in...