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We really like our pear wine and i have enough cut and frozen to make another 6 g batch. Probably to start later this month

I think freezing helped break down the fruit. Some got a little brown but that didn’t hurt anything. I pressed the Mesh fruit bags by hand every day. More pears would increase the flavor. We tried taste testing the finished wine with pear extract but that was too flowery for us. finished...

Nice job. We really liked our pear wine from last year. Hope you enjoy yours! Joe

We did pears cut and frozen then poured water over the bags of fruit. Something like the dragon blood recipe seen here in the forums eg. squeezing the bags in the primary. . It turned out great. It was a 5g batch. We will do it again next month but I plan to use more pears this time and less...

I love the Portuguese corker. Got it used so the price was right too. joe

I like both designs! Good work guys. I may try to duplicate the bar clamp one for pressing pears later in the fall.

The other thing after a little simple syrup and perhaps acid is to let it age a while. You will be surprised how much the fruit wine will change at 6 mos. and at 1 year! Fruit flavors become more pronounced and it all blends together more.

Blackberries were really dried out here too

That sounds good to me. Super Tuscan it is then.

No our tree didn’t have much yield probably due to the late cold spring weather this year. Joe

I have 5g of cab sauv bulk aging from Spring. Thinking about doing 5g of sangiovese Italian juice in Oct. then blending some and leaving some separate. Any suggestions? Joe

That oven trick produced too much fumes for me. I may try the boiling water idea though.

Welcome! You CAN get juice buckets in PGH in the strip district look up CFP online. Nice folks and a pretty good price. They can help you make a selection if youcall them. I plan on doing one or two buckets from them myself. joe

I have been wanting to take my Portugese corker apart for maintenance but chickened out so far. One if the best pieces of equipment I have!

For some reason I cannot stand the smell of goo gone! Can’t use it on my Wine bottles. I stick to heatgun then will try the baking soda and oil on leftover glue.

I think setting it up so that avgroup makes the wine or beer fir a specific event like a wedding or retirement party could be a seller . Special labels etc.

There is a pub in Pittsburgh that has you brew your own beer and bottle it there. They have all the mess and keep an eye on it’s progress you come back and bottle it. Joe

I’ve tried just about every way. My favorite is a heat gun for a couple of minutes then most will peel off. Some still need scraping. Anymore than that and in the recycle bin it goes. Do the heat with air moving or outside- that glue will give you a headache.

Pretty much what I did on this first batch.

Thx Joe! That pear fpac is great. I must try that next time.