Waldo’s Muscadine/Grape Wine

[Hippie]

Gonna rack to glass tonight?

 

[Waldo]

Most definately did Hippie. I wanted to this morning but ran outa time. It was still fermenting pretty strong so I left it plenty of bubble up room for right now. Will check and see how it is doing in the morning and top it up some more if it looks ok

I pulled the strainer bag with the muscadines and added it to the gallon fermenter that I started with the 6 gallon. Going to letthe gallonone go to .990 befor I rack it to glass.Edited by: Waldo

 

[Hippie]

Looks great! If all goes well with racking and loss, maybe you will eventually be able to combine both into one carboy. Maybe you should get a 5 gallon barrel, or 10!Edited by: Hippie

 

[Waldo]

I checked with Snyder Industries ( Our supplier of tanks for our Truck Wash Systems) on the price of a 550 gallon Cone Bottom Tank to ferment in Hippie

 

[Waldo]

Still strong fermentation goingg on this evening. Going to leave it alone, check SG tomorrow and possibly top it up a bit.

 

[Hippie]

Man that looks good!

 

[Waldo]

Thanks Hippie..I am hoping to have some good juice to top up with. I squeezed the beejuices out of the strainer bag of muscadines in the gallon fermenter tonight and it smelled really good.

 

[Hippie]

Perfect! I might be eating my words about the concord concentrate!

 

[Waldo]

Fermentation had slowed considerably this moning ( Exactly as Hippie predicted it would ) so I went ahead and topped it up a bit with the batch from the gallon fermenter

 

[Waldo]

Checked SG this evning and it is now at 1.000 and still fermenting. If it don't taste good I can burn it in my lawnmower

 

[MedPretzel]

Man, looking at that picture (sorry for the delay), I want to dive right in and bathe in that carboy.

 

[Hippie]

Checked SG this evning and it is now at 1.000 and still fermenting. If it don't taste good I can burn it in my lawnmower

ROFLMAO!

 

[Waldo]

And MArtina did it

 

[Waldo]

Checked SG this evening and it is still at .980. The same readng I got yesterday evening so I went ahead and racked it,

This one is definately going to have some kick to it.Using my beginning and endineSG readings to determine PAIcalculated itat 15%

cleaned up carboy and racked wine back to it. I dissolved 6 campden tablets and 2-1/2 tsp SOrbate in some cool water, added it to carboy and stirred well with fizz x. Got a lot of foam, a bit of overrun but not bad.

Topped it off and set it aside...wondering, "What am I going to make next

Here is my label I designed for this wine

Edited by: Waldo

 

[Hippie]

Are you sure of the hydrometer measurement? .980 is the lowest SG of any wine I have ever heard of! Is it .998?

 

[Waldo]

You are correct Hipppie.. It was .998


I was just checking tro see if you was paying attention

 

[peterCooper]

Pretty lable Waldo.

Am I allowed to say that. We're not on the labeling forum.

 

[Waldo]

Thanks Peter..Perhaps masta will overlook it this time

 

[Hippie]

The Hippie is always paying attention!

 

[MedPretzel]

I love the label.

The wine aint too shabby either.