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I have only made one wine that she really likes, a few that she will drink but one that she actually asked me to open a bottle of, and that was this years strawberry. Now if she would clean it out so that we could fill it with strawberries that would work, because I could hide other things...

Sirs I will let ya know something this afternoon about comming out that way tomorrow or Sunday. It is about a 4.5 to 5 hour drive for me, so I will have to leave pretty early to try and make a day of it. Not to mention I still don't know where I am going to put them yet, LOL. Everything is full...

How hard must one squeeeeeeeze to make mushroom pee? Last time I had the funny mushrooms (back in high school) they made me pee, or at least they made me think I was anyways.

Sirs how long do we have before all the grapes are gone or are they already gone for this year? So if you are following along with my blog I started working with the grapes yesterday. It took until this morning before they were all thawed out. This morning I poured them all into a 6 gallon...

Started the thawing of the grapes this morning. Tonight they are still thawing out, lol. You can follow along in this blog. Post your commits here because I disabled all commits in my blog entries. http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/blog.php?b=72

Well I am finally back online. So here is what I got so far. 1. 50 lbs should make around 6 gallons 2. might need to add some water based on acid readings 3. should not ferment on the skins after the first two days 4. the wild yeast on the grapes is not a bad choice but a wine yeast would...

I dont have but a min. to type out something on this borrowed internet. My internet is down until tuesday evening (hopefully). I will be back to follow up on this, I picked the grapes up Friday afternoon and put them in the freezer until I could get back on here. So as Arnold would say "I'LL BE...

Thanks for the replys, heres a couple questions on the responses. How many gallons should 50 lbs make? I will probably freeze them first due to time, when should I add the PE? With fruit I normally add it after I put them in the strainer bag but before I pitch the yeast. If I am not pitching...

50 lbs Scuppernog whats the recipe I have read a couple of post but there was no real recipe. How much should I be looking at gallon wise with 50 lbs of grapes? Should I ferment on the skin or off? If I have no press what is the best way to press that many grapes? What yeast should I use or...

LOL, on the hunt for the orange vest and white hat. I have the cones and do not care to tell where they came from. :i

From what the guy mowing told me is that they cut that ditch bank every year. That would explain why the bushes were no more than chest high and thick. I like the idea of digging up the old plants, it will just be a matter of getting them without anyone asking why I am digging up the ditch...

Funny you mention making mead. Of all the things you would think I make a lot of and I rarely use honey for any of my wine making. However I learned a new trick to making mead, although it isn't a true mead I like it a little better than true meads. It is a blended mead, the place in NY that I...

Ok so it has been a little longer than I would like for it to have been. But here is the update. THEY CUT MY BUSHES DOWN damn state people. Thats ok I got over 75 lbs cleaned and ready to go in the freezer. I have decided that next year there will be alot of elderberry and blackberry...

I haven't forgotten about this post, and I will post some updates either tonight or tomorrow, go to go for now but I will return. Oh and yeah all by hand after trying several methods I came to the conclusion that by freezing them and then destemming was the easiest.

My 2011 list I am now blogging all my wines, well most of them anyways. Heres the link to the 2011 list http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/blog.php?b=24 Heres the link to the old completed 2010 list just for giggles. http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/blog.php?b=10

backsweetening with honey changes the flavor of a given wine. that is not saying that its bad, however it will have a diferent taste than if you backsweeten with sugar.

Here is the third 18 gallon tote this year. It was full before I took the pic and now its empty and going to be filled up again today or tomorrow. So far there is 32 lbs of berries off the stems about another 15-20 lbs still to be removed from the stems. Should end up with a little over 50 lbs...

well ladies and gentlemen, as usual and as I have always remembered it seattle is overcast and raining. What I didn't know was how far north lynnwood was from seattle. Anywho if there is anyone in the area shoot me a pm I will be here until Wednesday and fly out Thursday.