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Get my Mezza Luna Red kit made. Make plenty of DB and the variations I have been planning all winter. Enter my apple wine in the county fair. And last but not least, I plan to keep having fun with winemaking!

Slow roasted pork ribs, streamed brown rice with herbs, and 4 bean salad for supper. Freshly brewed coffee and homemade gingerbread cookies for dessert.

I'm headed to the Big City for Christmas next weekend but I plan to start a 6 gallon batch of "fruit salad" DB with a Riesling base, a batch of triple berry DB and also a 3 gallon batch of elderberry wine over the New Year's weekend. I might also start a couple of gallons of limoncello if I have...

Bodenski, my first batch of cider/wine was a comedy of my errors. I didn't know I had not degassed it nearly enough and I forgot to add k-meta and sorbate before racking it into glass jugs. Add the fact I stored the jugs in an area that reached temperatures well over 100 degrees for a week...

Did some searching among my supplies and found a lone packet of E-1118 and a partial packet of nutrient. Hurrah! :h Rehydrated the E-1118 and added a heaping teaspoon of energizer, a half teaspoon of sugar and a heaping teaspoon of nutrient. Along with a heating pad set on very low and...

@Stressbaby and @Jericurl: Thank you for the great advice! About 3 AM this morning I actually thought of adding the energizer and extra yeast. I wonder what psychology experts would say about me dreaming about wine recipes and how to improve current batches? At least it is pleasant thoughts...

SPICED APPLE WINE I started a 2 gallon batch of apple wine this weekend. Recipe is a very slight tweak on Pappy's Pub Cider on homebrewtalk.com. 2 gallons of Tree Top apple juice 4 pounds (8 cups) sugar 1 packet of Montrachet yeast--using what I have on hand--waiting for the end of...

Ground up dried ghost peppers or bonnet peppers mixed with some feed corn. Sprinkle it around, they consume it and they won't be back for a while.

Does this recipe work well with other juices or juice blends, such as pineapple-guava or cranberry and apple? The peach-grape sounds very nice too.

Has anyone made the Orchard Breezin' Citrus Sunshine and is it something you would make again? The idea of a grapefruit forward wine cooler appeals to me.

Patience has its rewards :-) Enjoying the apple wine I made a year ago. Now I understand what all of you mean about being patient! Last year NASA could have used this stuff to launch rockets into the far reaches of outer space :) Trust me I nearly dumped it all but I stuck it in the back of...

Slow cooked pork ribs and a bottle of Rauch Ranch Winery Rock Wall Red, a very nice Sangiovese Sirah blend. I definitely recommend this wine!

I have an abundance of Asian pears this year so I am thinking about running them through a juicer. Would anyone be willing to share a simple tried-and-true recipe for wine made from fresh pear juice? If I am lucky I will have about 2 gallons of juice. Thanks in advance!

MoreWine is the best option for me living in rural northern CA. I try to wait until I have more than $50 worth of products and get the free shipping. Works great when I order wine kits because they get here basically overnight. The free shipping option doesn't apply to bottles unfortunately.

Since last September, I have been looking forward to entering some Dragon's Blood and some of my homemade liqueurs in the local county fair this year. Printed the entry forms Sunday August 7 to turn in during the week. That is when I found out the deadline was...Saturday, August 6. At least...

Chicken and rice with mushroom sauce. Simple and tasty :h

I sure hope they offer a similar kit next year. This sounds delicious!

@wyogal: Thanks! That sounds fairly easy. I appreciate the advice!

I have learned a few things from winemaking in the past year or so...no particular order... I learn something new with every batch. Being creative is fun. :db Wine doesn't always turn out as planned. That's where creativity comes in. :h Time may or may not fix it. Sometimes "good...

Really enjoying these posts about the berry harvests. I have a good-sized patch of youngberry and raspberry vines planted by my father-in-law years ago. Vines aren't on trellises, just growing rampant at ground level. When it comes to harvesting the berries, the blackbirds I can handle, it's...