Memorial Day Plans?

[Boatboy24]

What do you have planned for the upcoming holiday weekend? Will you be travelling?

We are staying put. It's the first weekend that we won't have t-ball practice and games since April, so that will be nice. We'll get together with some neighbors and do some wine judging for the Welch's contest. I've got yardwork to do - much landscaping has been going on in the last month and I'm just about finished. And I always give the grill a good workout. Saturday night, we will go out to celebrate our anniversary (which is today) and my birthday. Somewhere in there, I will bottle my Grenache Rose and put labels and foils on the Carmenere I bottled a couple weeks ago. Oh, and I may help a friend move. I think I'm going to need a four day weekend...

 

[Rocky]

We have a Memorial Day Parade in the town (on the 26th this year) and I volunteer to serve coffee and doughnuts to the Veterans prior to and after the parade. We have a "Vets in Vettes" as part of the parade and people in the town who have Corvettes bring them in for the parade and take one of the Veterans in their car. Last year I think we had 46 Corvettes and a couple of other Classic Cars to take the Vets in the parade.

Later in the week is the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Golf Club. I have week long passes (4) and we have very good friends coming in from Pittsburgh for the tournament. We try to do this every year with them. He was my first (and by far best) boss and we became close friends. We make a great long week end with golf, wine and food.

 

[Simpsini]

We'll be staying around the house this weekwnd. Several months ago I lost my job (thanks to Mr Hope & Change) and haven't found anything steady yet. However, I have managed to snag a part time job as a Marshall/Starter at a local golf course and I start this weekend. The pay is low, but the perks are great.

Rocky - Thanks for taking care of those vets. We really appreciate what everyone does. The attitude of people toward vets is so much different then when I entered the service 35 years ago.

 

[ffemt128]

Small get together on Saturday to judge the wines for the contest, then Memorial Day parade on Monday. Other than that no plans. I'm off Thursday, going to pick up bottles then I work from home on Friday so I only have 1 more day in the office this week.

 

[JohnT]

I will be opening ... "Johnny's Day Camp for the over worked and underappreciated".

I will camp out with..

Lounge Chair on sundeck (just finished painting it),
XM radio playing the Jimmy Buffet channel,
Weber Grill with 1 extra bottle of propane,
A brand new cooler loaded with wine, beer, and ice,
A 1/6 keg of last fall's sparkling skeeter pee (just waiting to be tapped),
and a freezer full of meat.

I plan to relax and welcome sporadic visitors. Those that wish to join me at the day camp are always welcome.

 

[jpike01]

Dropping the family off at the in-laws then finding JohnT's place.


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[Julie]

JohnT you need to move farther west into Pa, taxes are cheaper!!!!!!


We will be headed to our champ, looking forward to just relaxing and having fun!

 

[sour_grapes]

JohnT you need to move farther west into Pa, taxes are cheaper!!!!!!

Yeah, but the booze and wine are a lot more expensive!

 

[Boatboy24]

Dropping the family off at the in-laws then finding JohnT's place.


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If there was a "double like" I'd have given you one.

 

[GreginND]

Busy weekend for me. I'm hosting a grape planting party on Saturday. I'm busy all week getting ready.

 

[Julie]

Yeah, but the booze and wine are a lot more expensive!

Well when you only drink wine or beer and you make it yourself, who cares how expensive someone is selling it for.

 

[jojabri]

Well when you only drink wine or beer and you make it yourself, who cares how expensive someone is selling it for.

Double like for Julie too! Can't wait til the hubby starts brewing the beer for us.

 

[Julie]

It is time consuming for the day but that is pretty much it! You brew, put it in a carboy for a couple of weeks, rack, then bottle and a couple of months down the road, you have beer.

 

[JohnT]

Well when you only drink wine or beer and you make it yourself, who cares how expensive someone is selling it for.

Yup,

With every sip I take, I consider the tax dollars that I am not paying. Makes it taste even better!

If (y'all / yous) come, just bring a salad or a dessert and (of course) a bottle of your finest!

 

[jojabri]

It is time consuming for the day but that is pretty much it! You brew, put it in a carboy for a couple of weeks, rack, then bottle and a couple of months down the road, you have beer.

I pitched a few kits out at him and he's leaning towards the 20 min boil amber bock kit on Midwest. Its only $29.99, and by the reviews it looks to be a good starter kit. About all we need to get him going is a wort chiller and an ale pail or 6 gal carboy, as I only have 5 gal currently.

 

[cmason1957]

I pitched a few kits out at him and he's leaning towards the 20 min boil amber bock kit on Midwest. Its only $29.99, and by the reviews it looks to be a good starter kit. About all we need to get him going is a wort chiller and an ale pail or 6 gal carboy, as I only have 5 gal currently.

You can get by without a wort chiller. If you have something large eggnog to fill with ice and put the hot boil put into. I have made about ten beers done this way.

 

[Julie]

Mike, my husband says a 5 gallon carboy is big enough. Your first fermenter should be 7 gallons and a plastic bucket with an airlock is fine (there goes your primary fermenter!) and if the pork fits I your sink you can put it in there and fill the sink with ice. Also, you can make the kit in 2 gallon pot and add 3 1/2 gallons of cold water when you have completed the boil and that should cool it down enough to add the yeast. And if you need help let me know.

 

[jojabri]

Mike, my husband says a 5 gallon carboy is big enough. Your first fermenter should be 7 gallons and a plastic bucket with an airlock is fine (there goes your primary fermenter!) and if the pork fits I your sink you can put it in there and fill the sink with ice. Also, you can make the kit in 2 gallon pot and add 3 1/2 gallons of cold water when you have completed the boil and that should cool it down enough to add the yeast. And if you need help let me know.

Thanks Julie! I'm researching as much as I can beforehand so that I can kind of lead the hubby through it. My only perplexity at this point is how does priming sugar make carbonation if it's already finished fermenting? This has me totally floored.

 

[Julie]

Your yeast is still there, you do not add anything to kill the yeast so when you add the priming sugar fermentation starts over but in a small way.

 

[GaDawg]

Thanks to you guys I can't afford to buy the wine I have become accustom to drinking.


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