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Making around 20 lbs of sausage tonight. Good sale on pork shoulder at Costco.

If there is any sediment on the bottom, continue to rack every few months. Once sediment is gone, no need to rack anymore.

My wife does volunteer work at Church, decorating sets for the kids program. Every once in a while I get tasked with building something. The kids Christmas play this year is Peanuts themed, and our middle daughter is playing Schroeder. I was tasked with building a small imitation piano for her...

Built a shelf in my garage to hold my carboys. Garage gets close to freezing in winter, but not below freezing. Should help cold crash and get the tartar crystals to drop out. This is just for the stuff I made this fall (and not quite all of it, 5 more carboys in basement that won't fit here)...

Sum41 and Offspring in concert tonight! Reliving high school.

I'm a small fish in a big ocean :) I did bottle around 30 gallons so far from last year, still have another 8 to go.

Brought back some seeds from our last trip to Paraguay. Some hot peppers and a bottle tree. Started both back in February indoors under a grow light, outside all summer. They are now in my garage, hoping to keep them alive for the winter. Got a couple ripe peppers, but going for a lot more next...

Pressed my last grapes for this year, got 16.5 gallons (62 L) of Syrah. Also racked my 5 gallons of apple cider out of primary. I kept all the pumice with the thought of using it for some other beverage later this year. This was my highest volume year by a good deal, especially when you add in...

Lol.we got about a foot yesterday. Buses cancelled, but schools open. Temp about the same as you.

For anyone else in this situation, this did help a lot. Got about 22L from the 80ish lbs of apples. the freezing and pectic enzyme did soften them up a lot.

Remembrance Day up here in Canada. Thanks to all the soldiers who fought for our freedom.

I'd certainly sanitize again, but then again my cousin who bottles several hundred bottles a year just takes bottles out of the box right from the factory and doesn't sanitize at all.

Had a fun weekend. Friday we went to 'rock the rink' which is a figure skating show set to rock music. It's the farewell tour for multi-gold medalists Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, who are retiring this year. Several other big (Canadian) skating names, plus an American, French, and a Russian...

Took out of the freezer today, dumped a 20g packet of pectic enzyme in, and some bought cider to help distribute it. will see tomorrow if it helped soften everything up.

Yea I saw someone do that online to. I'll look into that for next year

I picked the remaining apples and pears from our back yard today. Got 75Lbs of apples and 5 lbs of pears. I wanted to make cider from them. I had done a trial before to see how my grape crusher with not very good results. So I figured I'd just cut them into 1/8ths and try to press them in my...

It was about 240 lb, and I think I got around 80L just guesstimating based on the 32 gallon brute size. Going to use NT50 yeast on this syrah.

Picked some syrah, going to crush this morning.

Trick or treat! This is a screenshot from a video. I always have a projector going in the house with something scary going onto the window. This year had zombies and ghosts.

350lbs of muscat, 300 or so of Dornfelder, and 200lbs of riesling are all in progress from the last month. Still hoping to get 200lbs of syrah this week, and that will be it for grape wines. Have 50-60lbs of apples from our tree I plan on making into cider. Then next batch of beer is getting...