What are you making and what have you made ???

[joeswine]

hi there

GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK ON LINE TOM.YOU'VE BEEN MISSED

 

[Tom]

Tks Joe.
Still have many problems/issues

 

[joeswine]

hold the line

would like to come up and see you soon what is a good evening,around 4:30 or so..??????????

 

[Tom]

today is good or Sunday

 

[PoeCat]

Made this past summer:

3 gallons Elderberry (Turned out great.)

5 gallons Mint (Too sweet, I think, but will be good cold on a hot summer day.)

3 gallons Paw Paw (Having trouble getting this to clear up. I think I mashed the fruit too much when I put it to ferment.)

3 gallons Peach

Fall batches:

1 gallon Concord from frozen juice - this was really good so -

4 gallons Concord from frozen juice

1 gallon Niagara from frozen juice

1 gallon Nia-Cord (Niagara & Concord juice mixed) from frozen juice

1 gallon Con-agara (Concord & Niagara juice mixed) from frozen

3 gallons Pumpkin

Winter batches:

5 gallons Three Berry Skeeter Pee (this is just finishing)

Going right now:

1 gallon Cider wine (not sure what this is officially called - Is it really Apple wine?)

Want to make in the Spring/Summer:

Dandelion
Tomato

 

[Flem]

Someone's been busy!

 

[g8keeper]

ok....here we go....let's see if i can remember them all....

Previously Made:

WE VR Liebfraumich kit
Apple Wine (from fresh fruit)
Cherry (from fresh fruit)
Island Mist Green Apple Riesling
Island Mist Exotic Fruits White Zin
Island Mist Mango Citrus Symphony
Island Mist Blackberry Cab.
WE Selections Piesporter
WE Selections Speciale Riesling Ice Wine
WE Selections Speciale Cab Franc Ice Wine
WE Selections Speciale Port
WE Selections Special Millenium Sparkling White
Pear (from fresh fruit)
"Blueberry Thrill" (a high alcohol wine from juice and fruit wine base)
Cherry Kick-A-Poo (a high alcohol wine from juice and fruit wine base)
"Tropical Cherry" (30 day quick wine from juice) x2
"Mixed Berry" (30 day quick wine from juice)
Blueberry Wine (from fresh fruit)
WE Limited Edition German Gewürztraminer
Concord (made from frozen concentrate)
Niagara (from fresh grapes)
Banana (from fresh fruit)
Iced Tea Wine (using Instant Tea) (experimental)

Previously made, but neglected and went bad:

Cranberry (from fresh fruit)
Peach (from fresh fruit)
Banana (from fresh fruit)
Kiwi (from fresh fruit)
Mead
"Concord K" (high alcohol wine made from juice)

Beer Previously made:

Kolsch style (malt concentrate and specialty grains)
Nut Brown Ale (all grain mash)
Raspberry Blonde Ale (all grain mash)
American Light Ale(concentrate kit)
Pumpkin Ale (all grain mash)

Spirits made from sugar fermented using turbo yeast and then filtered:

Irish Cream (using extract)
Coffee Liqueur (using extract)
Root Beer Schnapps (using root beer soda extract)
Peppermint Schnapps (using Peppermint extract)
Assorted "Pucker'd" type Schnapps

and finally, Currently going:

Island Mist Apricot Peach Chard
Twisted Mist Strawberry Margarita
WE Selections White Zin
White Cranberry Peach (30 quick wine made from juice)
"Tropical Passion Berry" (30 day quick wine made from juice)
Mixed Berry/ Peach Skeeter Pee


ok....i think that covers everything, but i think there might be a few wines and beers i might have forgotten....wow....for only being in the hobby for about 3 years previously, i think i might have been a pretty busy beaver....lol...guess maybe i did just get burned out before...roflmao...

 

[phat]

On Deck:


Primary:
http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/f45/first-try-blueberry-suggestions-18310/#post176968

Secondary:
Blueberry Wine (6 Gal.)

Stablizing:
Cellar Craft Showcase Red Mountain Trio Cab/Syrah/Merlot

Carboys, Bulk Aging
RJS En Primeur Italian Amarone
Blueberry Wine (1 Gal.)
Cellar Craft Showcase South African Shiraz


Bottled
Wine Experts Selection International Australian Chardonnay (battonage)
RJS Cellar Classic Winery Series Super Tuscan
Paklab Onyx V Argentinian Malbec
Pink Skeeter Pee - with donor slurry from Shiraz

Previously Made
Numerous Coopers Beers.
Numerous beers manually concocted from canned malt and hops.
WineExperts Stag's Leap Merlot
WineExperts Cabernet Franc
Several other RJS kits.
Things in my distant past I don't remember...
Basement Flood with Sewer backup destroying Cellar and wine room.... etc. etc.

 

[dsoares1831]

So if you don't mind me asking, I've read so many different varieties or wines, what was everyone's favorite to make? I don't have a lot of space. Looking for new wines to try. I currently have zinfindel aging in my cellar, a white wine, apple cider wine, and just (yesterday) made a candy cane wine.

 

[Julie]

So if you don't mind me asking, I've read so many different varieties or wines, what was everyone's favorite to make? I don't have a lot of space. Looking for new wines to try. I currently have zinfindel aging in my cellar, a white wine, apple cider wine, and just (yesterday) made a candy cane wine.

If you like fruit wines, Blueberry/Pomegrante is to die for.

 

[DeniseHogemann]

What I have done and am doing

Primary

4 gallons Apple Cider Wine

Secondary

4 gallons Mixed Fruit Wine
3 gallons Saskatoon Berry Wine
5 gallons Barons American Lite Beer

Bottled

2011 May - Strawberry Lychee traminer
2012 January - Blueberry Pomengranate White Merlot
2012 February - Skeeter Pee

 

[hedgerow-wine]

fruit juice wine for only £ 2.63 per gallon.

Just started two gallons of fruit juice wine,the fruit juice is from LiDL
plein sud ACE vitamin-getrank

ingredients: to make 1 gallon.
1.5lt-fruit juice,ACE vitamin- getrank.
1lt-white grape juice.
1kg-sugar.
1tsp-pektolase.
1tsp-GP yeast compound.
water.

 

[digitaleye]

We've got Syrah in barrel from November and we bottled our 2010 Malbec just before harvest. TasTing decent so far but should age well for several yrs down the road.

 

[Jblyth]

My Wines in Progress

Currently In-Progress:
- Peach/Mango (2012)
- Skeeter Pee (2012)

Bottled and Aging:
- Vieux Chateau du Roi (2012)
- Old Vine Zinfandel (2011)
- Chilean Merlot (2011)
- Australian Shiraz (2011)
- Mezza Luna White (2011)
- Trinity Red (2011)

Finished and gone!
- Trinity Red (2009)

 

[wood1954]

racking

Racking my Petite verdot for the last time before bottling. Racking the Valpolicella for the first time. Racking plum wine and playing around with sweetness levels on a couple gallons of it. We went to a local winery a couple weeks ago and bought some dessert wine that was really good, i tested it and it was SG 1.044, a really good balance of acid and sweetness. I think i can get the plum to taste as good at about 1.040 and a lot more affordable, we paid $19 for a 375 ml bottle. also need to start cleaning more bottles.

 

[wineygirl]

Wow! Some of you are very experienced and must have lots of room for storage. I don't have the space to store much for aging.

Made for Christmas gifts:
-Breezin Blackberry Merlot - as per wine store instructions added 5lbs of sugar to punch it up a bit.
-WE Angel Blanco - also added 3lbs of sugar.

Everyone raved about the Merlot and said they really liked the Blanco.

Just bottled Strawberry White Merlot. This one was just for me. I love blush wines and can't wait for this one to age a little more.

Nothing working currently because I am trying to decide which of the Chilean grapes to try. This will also be my first non-kit wine. Any suggestions for a not so dry rose and a medium dry white?

 

[TXwinelover1339]

2010 Wines
Bulk Aging
5 Gallons - Riesling Ice (kit)
5 Gallons - Skeeter Pee

Pardon my ignorance, but what is Skeeter Pee?

 

[djrockinsteve]

A phenomenal second generation wine. See
www.skeeterpee.com and search this site. You can't make enough.

 

[SpoiledRotten]

Wow! Some of you are very experienced and must have lots of room for storage. I don't have the space to store much for aging.

I've spent many hours going through some of the pics of these guys'/girls' cellars while heavily drooling down the front of my shirt. I get the notion to sell my house and move into a concrete room with nothing but a wine making workbench and the walls lined with wines racks. It's easy to covet their facilities.

 

[Lost40Vinter]

Currently I have 6 gallons of welch's concord, 6 gallons of white grape/peach, 1 gallon of strawberry, and 1 gallon of blueberry. This winter I made a gallon batch of rhubarb that I back sweetened with strawberry and vanilla extract. It kind of tastes like strawberry rhubarb crisp and ice cream.