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Here's a few shots of the hot room this year...Like I said, we'll see what I can get going. The light is a 200W LED lamp I built this year, it throws down 1.15 million PAR. It also runs about 120F, and the air coming off the non-fan end is around 110F. It keeps the room warm, and warms the...

I'm more interested in the growing part than the drinkin' part, I am not able to consume alcohol as a general rule-I am missing a liver enzyme that helps the metabolization along. I can have a *little* bit and be fine, but where most people could tolerate a bottle in a night with some...

Starting SG was 1.095 when I measured it, plus any sugars in the apple juice for the bottles that had that added.

So I've had a large, unruly, often black-rot affected *probably* Niagara grape vine for many years now. I've finally actually started pruning on it a little more regularly and it's improving a bit-but it will die out soon as the two main canes/trunk have grown through a chain link fence, and are...

Because I kept records of specific gravity before and after, and those four bottles never got dry, even with yeast that I tested to live up to 26.5% alcohol-that's when the yeast died in titration testing, and there was still some sugar in the wine. The 14.5% made it to 0.995-ish, but the rocket...

Wow, this was a long time ago. Life has not been particularly kind...haven't had time to mess with the grapes much. I came here hand started a thread about how to make wine from the old fence grapes at my old house in August, 2013. I did successfully finish up my first wine about July of 2014...

Racked off into two 1 gallon jugs, and three half-gallon growlers. Everything is under airlock now, and has been for 4 days. One of the half-gallons was topped off with fresh apple juice, as it was only a little over half-full, and has been marked as such. The proto-wine tasted very much like...

Lots of folks seem to say they just aren't ripe...I pick when the birds pick, the few times I netted the grapes and let them go longer they never got sweeter...even letting them stay on the vine to the first frost they still never lost the tart taste. The university farm grape growers say these...

I moved into the current house about 13 years ago and planted a "Thomson Seedless" grapevine. It isn't a Thompson grape, nor is it seedless...however it is a thickskinned, seeded, white grape. It's REALLY grape, and really tart flavored. Pressed juice is clear-green, but in the bucket it's...