What R you doing today?

[plowboy]

Well I was on the road most of the day. I dropped my lawn tractor off at the shop for service in Meadville. After I got home from that I headed up to NY for a project I'm working on.

No word of a lie, my lawn mower is frozen to the shop floor. It's all good though cause I bet it will still be a month or two before anything needs a trim

 

[Runningwolf]

No word of a lie, my lawn mower is frozen to the shop floor. It's all good though cause I bet it will still be a month or two before anything needs a trim

Plowboy it'll be a month or two for me also. I had to charge the battery to get it going. I just figured I'd get it in before they started getting busy and way before I needed it. Once the season hits I can't afford to be without it for a week.

 

[plowboy]

I think we are up to 3 mowers now and a big PTO bush hog. Come Monday I'll be servicing all the farm equipment so that's always fun.

 

[reefman]

just bottle my Wine Expert Riesling Ice Style wine.
Boy do I need a floor corker. Any good deals out there?
This bottle will be sacrificed tonight for the good of the other bottles.

 

[Runningwolf]

Today I made my first outdoor purchase for the new year. I bought a dwarf Bartlett Pear today at Home Depot. The root ball is frozen and its freezing outside. I just feel good knowing I didn't wait until it was gone or dead. Additionally a good sign of warmer weather coming some day soon.

 

[Gwand]

Today I racked my blackberry wine. Tasted quite good. I used recipes and suggestions from Julie. I also racked 3 gallons of apple cider out of primary. I bottled my WE Eclipse cab. Very nice outcome. Finally I tasted my WE Eclipse Savignon Blanc. Classic SB flavors.

 

[Julie]

Today I racked my blackberry wine. Tasted quite good. I used recipes and suggestions from Julie. I also racked 3 gallons of apple cider out of primary. I bottled my WE Eclipse cab. Very nice outcome. Finally I tasted my WE Eclipse Savignon Blanc. Classic SB flavors.

How old is your blackberry? I opened a bottle of mind that is 18 months old and my husband and I were shocked at the change it went thru and how great it tasted.

Glad to hear I was able to help.

 

[sour_grapes]

I had to break down and (ulp) purchase empty wine bottles. I have been bottling more than I have been drinking, so popped for a couple of case's worth of bottles. (Should not happen often. I snuck an extra batch of Dragon Blood in this month.)

 

[Hokapsig]

Bottle the Raspberry Dragonfruit White Shiraz and an FCC (Fredonia, Concord, Cayuga) blend. Pitched yeast on another Brianna and put one Brianna in the secondary.

 

[jojabri]

In light of not having an range/oven I've had to neglect my wine. I feel so bad about it because now the workload has stacked up on me.

But either way, today I went browsing at the thrift shops and flea markets and found a booth with several boxes of empty bottles. They weren't priced or anything just sitting there. I asked the cashier and she called the vendor and they priced them at 50 cents each. I consider that a good deal because I have no wine drinking friends to save bottles (mostly because they just drink mine) and no other way to get freebies yet . So they said check back again and they'll have more. I suppose discounted is better than retail (see my quote below). Fortunately cleaning and de-labeling hasn't been much trouble.

 

[Gwand]

How old is your blackberry? I opened a bottle of mind that is 18 months old and my husband and I were shocked at the change it went thru and how great it tasted.

Glad to hear I was able to help.

That's great to hear. My blackberry is young. I just started to bulk age last week. I will make certain that I age some of it for that long. I just got in peach puree from Home Winery. Any tips for kicking it up a notch? Thanks.

 

[plowboy]

Well got my house filter today. It's a whole lot bigger than I expected but at 25 bucks it should work well. The guy at the plumbing store seems to think 15 psi should do the trick. Only time will tell I guess. It's going to be 6ish months before anything needs to be bottled.

 

[Rocky]

I bottled Chardonnay/Semillon (82 bottles + a BAQAS) and Carmenere (31 Bottles +a BAQAS). The Chard-Sem is very nice, light (about 12%) and fruity. The Carmenere spent 6 months in a barrel and is very, very good. Got a bunch more of bottling to do b/c I will be making 42 gallons of Chilean very soon.

 

[Boatboy24]

OK, I'll bite: BAQAS = Big a$$ QA Sample?

 

[Julie]

That's great to hear. My blackberry is young. I just started to bulk age last week. I will make certain that I age some of it for that long. I just got in peach puree from Home Winery. Any tips for kicking it up a notch? Thanks.

I grew up eating peach butter and I still make it to this day and I always think I need to make a peach butter wine. I think adding cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice to a peach wine would be really good. Not a lot.

 

[plowboy]

I heard through the grapevine that due to the cold spring peaches are toast this year and cherries are hanging in there but only by a fingernail. 2 years ago there was a compleat failure of the apple crop due to a early 2 week thaw of 20*c weather that brought out the blossoms followed by 2 weeks of -20 weather that killed everything.

Glad I'm not in the fruit business. Far too many things to go wrong.

 

[Julie]

I heard through the grapevine that due to the cold spring peaches are toast this year and cherries are hanging in there but only by a fingernail. 2 years ago there was a compleat failure of the apple crop due to a early 2 week thaw of 20*c weather that brought out the blossoms followed by 2 weeks of -20 weather that killed everything.

Glad I'm not in the fruit business. Far too many things to go wrong.

Yea, I figured my cherries were not going to happen this year. Just as long as my grapevines are ok, I'll sacrifice the cherries.

 

[Runningwolf]

Yea, I figured my cherries were not going to happen this year. Just as long as my grapevines are ok, I'll sacrifice the cherries.

Yeah I hate it when things happen. I sacrificed mine also.

 

[jojabri]

Today I'm meeting up with an old friend for Lazer Tag and Skating and perhaps a visit to the "gentleman's club", could be interesting.

Yesterday was cray-cray in the lab! Back sweetened and Super Kleered 6 gal Smucker's strawberry preserve, 4 gal Blueberry Candy Cane, 5 gal skittles (i'm totally amazed at how this looks today!). I also back sweetened 11 gal of Strawberry DB and bottled 4 gal Lil Pink Peng a.k.a. Strawberry Dragon Blood that I had started previously as prizes for my sister's baby shower.

I have a feeling I will be enjoying this day off!

 

[plowboy]

Pics of the skittles? Mine is still in the slurry phase so it will take some time before it starts to clear