What R you doing today?

[LanMan]

After work I will be driving home to see my wife and 1 1/2 kids and my dog. After I get there I'll be making my first elderberry wine, changing brakes on her car, mowing the lawn and spraying the lawn for ticks(we have a lot of em)
If I have time I will bottle 6 gal of apple wine
Being home every other weekend SUCKS!

 

[ffemt128]

After work I will be driving home to see my wife and 1 1/2 kids and my dog. After I get there I'll be making my first elderberry wine, changing brakes on her car, mowing the lawn and spraying the lawn for ticks(we have a lot of em)
If I have time I will bottle 6 gal of apple wine
Being home every other weekend SUCKS!

Judging from the 1 1/2 kids comment I take it you are expecting, well, she is expecting. Congratulations. Make sure after you are done with the Honey Do list, you take some time and have a glass of wine (or 2, mother to be can't drink) and enjoy the time with the family. I give you a lot of credit being away from home due to work, it has to be tough.

 

[Redtrk]

Well after working four days in the last two weeks I decided I needed a day off. I'm thinking about brewing up a batch of light beer today since my keg is down to 1/4 full. Then I think it's riding time!

 

[ffemt128]

Well after working four days in the last two weeks I decided I needed a day off. I'm thinking about brewing up a batch of light beer today since my keg is down to 1/4 full. Then I think it's riding time!

I'm jealous. I'm heading out tomorrow for destinations unknown. Well I know 2 destinations, Steve's house and Julie's house to drop off Sirs' wine to them. After that, all bets are off.

 

[Tom]

Well after working four days in the last two weeks I decided I needed a day off. I'm thinking about brewing up a batch of light beer today since my keg is down to 1/4 full. Then I think it's riding time!

tomorrow I will be brewing a 10 gal batch of IPA

What do you call "light beer"?

 

[Runningwolf]

After work I will spraying the lawn for ticks(we have a lot of em)

What product are you using? I still have about 5 gallons of seven mixed up in the sprayer I pull behind my tractor I used for spraying Japanese beetles. I was thinking about just spraying it on my lawn now to use it up so I can clean out the tank before I spray for weeds. I might add another five gallons of water to dilute it out a bit.

 

[PCharles]

Heading Out

Good morning friends,

Hey, I have the day off! My wife and I are going to Elkin, NC to visit several vineyard/wineries. I'm looking forward to photographing the grapes/vineyards and giving them a good taste. One vineyard, Elkin Creek, makes a wood fired pizza. I see a red wine in my future... yum.

Have a great weekend.

Paul

 

[Affe]

Hey, I have the day off!

Must be nice!

My wife and I are going to Elkin, NC to visit several vineyard/wineries. I'm looking forward to photographing the grapes/vineyards and giving them a good taste. One vineyard, Elkin Creek, makes a wood fired pizza. I see a red wine in my future... yum.

I hope your weekend is great as well, Paul. Be sure to post some of those pictures for us to see!

 

[jtstar]

Crab apple raspberry is awesome also. I think I blended it 65% apple 35% raspberry like 4 years ago and it was perfect. Dan, make sure you carb some of that apple, its awesome!!!!! I sweetened it back with Seneca frozen apple juice concentrate. 5 jack & cokes later and a Vicoprofin and my back is finally starting to loosen up.

This is the best prescription I have ever heard of

 

[Affe]

Well I noticed this site was missing something: a favicon.

So I spent a little lunch time diddying this up:

(the image isn't showing -- if you go to http://www.affeslist.com you will see it as the favicon because i accidentally replaced mine with this one)

Not sure if that came out right -- there seems to be an issue in which I can't upload an icon to the site (seems you guys only want bmp's, jpg's, png's, etc. -- so picky!).

However, the direct download for it should be here:

favicon.ico

Should be able to upload this to your root directory (I'm unsure of who the owner is at this point) as favicon.ico. Then you'll have that nice little wine glass show up for the site, just like Google.com has that strange "G" (below)

 

[ffemt128]

I ended up with almost 4 1/4 gallons of steamed Elderberry Juice. Tonight I will get everything into the primary so that we can get a batch of Elderberry wine started. I think I'll go with 2 - 5 gallon batches which will be just over 4 lbs per gallon. I'm going to experiment and do one batch with Tartaric Acid and the other with Acid Blend so that I can see what the difference is from my other post about Acids. I think it will be a good experiment. Need to go to Costco to get some raisins.

 

[Runningwolf]

I had a great visit and lunch today with the group from Pittsburgh. In the Picture below starting on the left is Mike (Flem) Al, Julie and myself.

 

[ffemt128]

I had a great visit and lunch today with the group from Pittsburgh. In the Picture below starting on the left is Mike (Flem) Al, Julie and myself.

Looks like a good time.

 

[docanddeb]

Not enough wine... they are all upright!!

Debbie

 

[Wade E]

Good looking crew there!!!

 

[Flem]

And a good time was had by all---as usual.

 

[Julie]

We did have a good time, as usual.

 

[ffemt128]

While I was out getting my Welches for the Elderberry wine, I drove over to South Hills Brewing Supply and picked up a case of 375 bottles for my pepper wine that has been sitting in a carboy since December or there about. I also finally broke down and bought a portugese floor corker. Now to figure out how to use it. Hmmmmm

 

[docanddeb]

I bought a little second hand vacuum pump and need to get some new hoses and figure out how to rig it for MY purposes... it's a winter project!

I did buy the hose, hopefully the right size, at the local farm supply super store! I bought some tapered adaptors just in case. Cheap try if nothing else! If it's good enough for milk... it's almost good enough for my wine!

Debbie

 

[Julie]

While I was out getting my Welches for the Elderberry wine, I drove over to South Hills Brewing Supply and picked up a case of 375 bottles for my pepper wine that has been sitting in a carboy since December or there about. I also finally broke down and bought a portugese floor corker. Now to figure out how to use it. Hmmmmm

Piece of cake Doug, you probably already figured it out and you are now wondering what in the world took me so long in buying this!