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Slow but determined triathlete. Just the sprint versions. Two hours of "Don;t quit".

My own lite beer. Inside family joke between my brother and our nieces.

Please give up the Kingsford or any other briquettes and use hardwood lump charcoal. Yes, it will cost a little more but it's like having butter instead of margarine!

Put a second coat of bottom paint on the boat.

The plastic office water cooler jug serves one great purpose for me. Rack out of a glass carboy into it. Clean the glass carboy. Transfer right back into the freshly cleaned and sanitized glass carboy. Immediately clean out and sanitize the water cooler jug.

I like my Cab Franc heavily oaked. Local place in Verona, KY makes it that way.

"Scott & Bailey" on Amazon Prime. British shows seem better written, have better actors, and they don't all look like super-models.

Lamb and rice stuffed green peppers. Fourth meal off that leg of lamb. Cutlets twice and gyros once previously. My wife did a great job seasoning the lamb.

I also use the Avery method that Mismost referenced. But instead of printing at home, I go 3 miles to Staples and deplete their self serve color printer ink for 60 cents/page. Usually 9 labels per page, so 3 or 4 pages. PDFs on a thumb drive.

For the Island Mist kits, I heat up 1/2 gallon spring water for making the bentonite slurry. Add two pounds of sugar to that.

Did whole beer can chickens on a 26" kettle works well. Fire on the opposite side. Started in the morning and left it alone all day. Ready to eat at sundown after a day on the lake. :fsh And whole turkeys on the vertical gas smoker beats staying up all night for the Thanksgiving bird. Small...

Herd immunity will limit this virus once 60+% of us have been exposed. That is likely to happen before any vaccine can be in widespread use, about 18 months. So unfortunately, we'll have to catch it to be immune.

Cab Sav from 2016. Turned out OK but wasn't degassed properly, so if I let it aerate for a while it's not bad.

Was going to bottle Riesling today, but sucked up too much of the lees when transferring out of the carboy. :(So clean out the carboy, rack back into it and try again Monday or Tuesday.

Made both a Pinot Noir and an Old Vine Zin from concentrate that "expired" two years prior last fall. Nothing wrong with them. Probably a little less berry flavor and aroma than if I had been able to make them on schedule. Does life get in the way of your wine making too?

Gallon jugs (or 2&1/2) of spring water are readily available near me. Just the 1/2 liter bottles for drinking are gone.

Gewurztraminer. Just bottled. Juice from Walker's in Forestville, NY. Best white I have ever made IMO. Got the last 5 gallon jug from my local supply shop here in Louisville, KY.

Made a kit white several years ago that went through primary in the 72F kitchen and smelled wonderful. At bottling, it had almost no flavor or aroma. Nearby professional winemaker said "Oh, I ferment all my whites at 64F. My pole barn has serious A/C." My basement is not 64F, but it is cooler...

No matter the exact process, concentrating (removing water) the kit juice has to remove some of those volatile compounds that give aromas to the nose. Kit concentrates vs whole juice is not a fair fight. But you can still make good wine from kits.