What R you doing today?

[tonyt]

Bottled five gallons of MMM Amarone that started back in January. I had a few months in Vadia barrel. I have high hopes for this one in a year or so. The other gallon went into a Jerboarm (3L) back in June. Also racked a RJS Toro, a MMR Cab Sharaz and a RJS Cru Brunello. I now have 120 regular bottles laying down, along with about 50 splits, two Magnums and two Jerboarums. Twenty nine gallons in carboys, one Nero D'Avola on deck and all kinds of stuff in my wish list. I've really focused (obsessed) for the past year and think by the first of the year I will be drinking only one year old wines. Don't laugh but that's been a major accomplishment.

 

[SpoiledRotten]

Congrats, Tony! That is a major accomplishment.



I don't think I'm drinking anything less than 2 months old.

 

[docanddeb]

You have to make a lot of wine fast in those first 2 yrs of production. I now have to cut back. Supply exceeds demand. But it's nice to be able to go down and have a little of everything... to fit your mood!

Debbie

 

[jtstar]

You know Deb all you have to do is call on the gang from the club house and they will be right there to help clean out your cellar and don't forget Buford and Bernadette they always follow the gang

 

[docanddeb]

Come on over... Nebraska isn't that far. We could all meet in the middle... MY HOUSE!!

Debbie

 

[SpoiledRotten]

When racking my blueberry off of the primary, I found that in order to keep all of the wine you can, you need carboys of ALL sizes. I also discovered that in my rushed effort to get this done before church this morning, I had left out the cap inside the airlock. Glad I was posting a pic of it.

 

[SpoiledRotten]

Another thing I did for a really neat identification is to use the "Clear Easy Peel Return Address Label" The label is 2.3" x 1 3/4". You guys that have been doing this for years have probably already been doing this but this:

is better than putting the white labels on the bottle, then having to "clean" the labels off in order to use the bottle again. My wife came up with this one where you just put the clear label over the shrink caps and when you peal off the cap, you are pealing off the label as well. Now, when we share a bottle or two with friends and/or family, we'll put the generic label on it just for looks, but for the most part, this will serve our purposes very well with limited trouble after the wine is consumed.

 

[UglyBhamGuy]

Mixed up 5 gallons of mead last night.
14lbs Honey (10lbs Sue Bee Clover and 4lbs Dutch Gold Orange Blossom)
4gal Spring Water
2tsp Nutrient
2tsp Energizer
1pkt Lalvin D47 (rated for 14%)
OG: 1.100 (14% potential ABV)
Should ferment dry, then i will stabilize and back sweeten with more honey.

Wanna do these blueberries. Gonna post a recipe in a few and ask opinions.
*Stay Tuned*

 

[ffemt128]

Spent last night at a structure fire for 3 1/2 hours. Good times. Spent the morning working on my press getting it secured up a little and welding a part back on. Considered bottling either my Pinot Grigio or my Cab Sav, haven't decided yet. Need to make a trip to Luva Bella next week for juice and then the following week to Presque Isle for niagra and concord juice.

Forgot to mention, my mother called me and asked if I wanted peaches for wine. Apparently my cousin has 3 peach trees which are loaded and ready to be picked. She said I can have whatever I want. Going to have my daughter pick for me next weekend. Hoping to get enough for a 6 gallon batch of peach wine. We'll see. I'll be cutting and freezing after next weekend. I'm pumped about this.

 

[SpoiledRotten]

I'm going to be starting the Peach in about a week. Got to wait and empty the Mixed Berry out of the primary first.

 

[docanddeb]

Picked Elderberries for 2 hrs today... cleaned them for 3 hrs. Not done yet. Got rained out twice and the light is fading. Time to quit. Put away 19.7# so far.
We'll finish the rest tomorrow.

Debbie

 

[jtstar]

The wife and I took a road trip to check out some trees and shrubs and I found out that a shrub that I thought was a currant was a cranberry virburnum not a very good plant to make wine into but on the other hand I did find a black cherry tree and will harvest those

 

[Wade E]

Thinking about sneaking out and doing a little fishing but its tough around here as all the rivers are still way too high and fast and I dont want to drive all over creation to find a decent bass spot. I also need to save my money for saltwater fishing as thats going to cost me a lot in bait!!! Im just too bored to stay home though.

 

[UglyBhamGuy]

Finishing up the 1st Annual Labor Day Winemaking Extravaganza.

5 Gallons of Mead
5 Gallons of Blueberry

And for a little "Early Drinkage", i tried a coupla things:
1 Gallon of Tinned Apricot (My wife said the must was dangerously good)
1 Gallon Apple Juice (back to my roots with EZCaps)

 

[Redtrk]

Brewing a Dunkelweizen today for a friend who's dad will be here from Germany on Oct 9th. This is one of his favorite beers.

 

[tonyt]

Smoking a pork roast. Didn't have any beer for the drip pan so I poured in two bottles of Skeeter pee. I had injected the roast with a pineapple juice brine so I'm thinking the Pee ought to go well with it.

 

[ffemt128]

Bottled my Sav Blanc and Pinot Grigio today. Needed to make room for an anticipated influs of about 5-6 more buckets of juice in the next month or so. I have 7 empties now and 5 buckets that will be looking for a home soon.

 

[jtstar]

Well I headed out to work this morning and when I got there they had posted on the front door that all production had been canceled today and tonight but the problem now is I am management so I ended up having to go in for a meeting but I was still able to get back home by 3:45 pm so I got my riding mower repaired then took the push mower and started mowing the bank behind our house now it time to drink some wine and relax for the evening

 

[Wade E]

JT, are things that slow there or was there another reason for the shutdown? Thats bull that they made people drive there to find out there was no work!!! I would have been pissed and not showed up the next day!!!

 

[jtstar]

No there was deffinently an other reason we are building a new kill floor because are old kill floor is obsolete it is close to fifty years old and out dated so when they dug to footing for the new building it was right next to the outside wall of the old building so the wall of the old building started to give away there is over a eight opening crack in the wall where it is giving way. we process close to 8000 head a day of cattle at this plant