Got some bottling done....

[whino-wino]

I haven't been visiting the forum lately. Spring is here and there's so much to do with the garden and the lawn (and of course I need to work on my golf handicap) that I haven't had much time to spend on the computer.


It was cold and rainy here this past Memorial day, so I decided it was a good day for bottling.

On the right is 3 gallons of pineapple
In the center is 4 gallons of Wild Blueberry (my favorite wine!)
On the left is 5 gallons of elderberry (which I think is going to be awesome based on taste tests so far)


Way down on the end, you can barely see the top of a 375ml bottle which has about 60% elderberry and 40% wild blueberry. It is the only one I have and if it turns out to be great I'm going to kick myself for not blending more of them but I just couldn't bring myself to lower the number of wild blueberry bottles that I have.


I also went to mow my yard last Saturday and said to myself, "Self, you've got an awful lot of dandelions in your yard." Of course you can guess where I went from there. I had planned to do 5 gallons, but after about 3 hours of cutting petals off of flowers with a scissors I figured 3 gallons would do just fine. It's foaming away happily in my basement as I write this.

 

[Waldo]

They all look great whino.....That Elderberry/Blueberry blend sounds really good !!!

 

[K&GB]

Awesome job Whino!

The pineapple looks crystal clear. Did you use a clarifier, and how old were they at bottling?

 

[NorthernWinos]

Love the blue bottle for the blue berry wine...

Labels????? You got labels?????

 

[Wade E]

They look great there Whino!

 

[whino-wino]

Awesome job Whino!

The pineapple looks crystal clear. Did you use a clarifier, and how old were they at bottling?

Yes I did use Super-Kleer on all three. The blueberry was started back in mid-February and had been on oak for 7 weeks. The pineapple had been filtered about 2 1/2 weeksbefore bottlingand the elderberry was filtered a few days after that. I probably should have let them all bulk age a bit longer, but then I have to remember to check the airlocks from time to time and I'd rather just age it in the bottle.

 

[whino-wino]

I'm not super computer-savvy so my labels are pretty simple, but here they are if you really want to see them:

 

[Joanie]

Both the wine AND the labels excellent, W-W!! Nicely done!

 

[grapeman]

I love the labels Wino and the wine looks great too. I can taste it through the screen! Yummmmm...

 

[Wade E]

Whino, sometimes plain labels are just more elegant!!!!!!! Something I have to learn. I always want to do something like that then it spirals into hours of fidgeting with pasting and cutting of 3 or 4 pictures until I go insane!

 

[uavwmn]

Wino, very nice looking labels. And the wine looks dang good also!!