What R you doing today?

[jeepingchick]

back of my neck and mmad its the celtic symbol of life , never ending spiral

 

[Runningwolf]

Took a long ride through the PA/NY grape country, Stopped at Walkers and picked up some Rhubarb, Strawberry and Raspberry Blush juice. I'll put a brew belt on each one and will start them tomorrow. They are squeezing cherries now incase anyone's interested. Just an FYI for those not to far away thinking about another wine party in August probably the 7th or 14th. Thinking about late afternoon to give folk to hit the wineries or Walkers for any juice they may want to pick up. Maybe we can do something later also when the fresh juice is ready also.

 

[UglyBhamGuy]

Bottling Wheat Beer.
Stirring Skeeter Pee.

 

[UglyBhamGuy]

back of my neck and mmad its the celtic symbol of life , never ending spiral

that's cool, i have the Chinese/Japanese (same in both languages) symbol for 'ugly' on the back of my neck.

 

[xxplod]

Hmmmm!

back of my neck and mmad its the celtic symbol of life , never ending spiral

still thinking about that Rose. Oh and i hope ya have a

 

[xxplod]

all this talk about tatoos gets me ta thinking about getting one or two lol

 

[ffemt128]

Took a 50 mile ride on the bike today after helping my son compound some cracks and imperfections in his dining room. While I was out I located about a dozen more elderberry bushes in relatively close proximity to home. Also stopped at Kavic winery and picked up 3 bottles of wine. A chardonay, duquesne and a lafayette. All good choices. Will have them with dinner tomorrow. We're cooking a turkey....

 

[ffemt128]

Took a long ride through the PA/NY grape country, Stopped at Walkers and picked up some Rhubarb, Strawberry and Raspberry Blush juice. I'll put a brew belt on each one and will start them tomorrow. They are squeezing cherries now incase anyone's interested. Just an FYI for those not to far away thinking about another wine party in August probably the 7th or 14th. Thinking about late afternoon to give folk to hit the wineries or Walkers for any juice they may want to pick up. Maybe we can do something later also when the fresh juice is ready also.

What do they charge for juices, never been there but then again we just started. Cherry wine sounds divine and cherry juice is supposed to be very healthy for you.

 

[xanxer82]

Celebrating my first fathers day with my stepson and Kats family

 

[Wade E]

and no one sees the rose whilst im sober LMAO!!!

So I guess that rose is visible quite frequent then!

 

[jeepingchick]

wade behave!!! and honeslty parts of the rose are visible in most things i wear LOL!

cant wait to head out! im south of DC chilling bf we head to the bar , have a glass (or three) of wine in me and im a happy camper

 

[bigabyte]

I had a few things going on today with my wine batches. I started a new batch with a gallon of Apple Cider my mom gave to me yesterday. Starting SG 1.11, TA .6%. This morning I pitched in some rehydrated Premier Cuvee yeast. The white spots you see are some Pectic Enzyme I added in (forgot to earlier) that had not yet been fully dissolved and stirred in before taking the photo. This picture was taken about 12 hours after pitching the yeast.

I also transferred my Skeeter Pee to a secondary fermentation container, SG of 1.02.

Today I also saw two batches in secondary fermentation showing no postive pressure on the airlock. One was a batch of Zinfandel from concentrate, the other was a Pinot Chardonnay from concentrate. The Pinot Chardonnay showed an sG of .99, so it was ready. However, the Zinfandel was at 1.08, definitely stuck. I decided to rack and add finings to each, and have a sweet low alcohol Zin that I would drink immediately after clearing. I have another batch of this same Zin going, and it is not stuck (not yet anyway), so I will take it to dryness.

 

[ffemt128]

It's 7:13 here now, I went to giant eagle to get coffee as we were out. Later after my 3 y/o wakes up I'll probably head to my sons to sand joint compound with him and als fish some cable lines for him since his house doesn't have any. After that depending on the time I may see about another long bike ride. Maybe head up rt 19 towards Morraine State Park, maybe head the other way. Who knows.

 

[Julie]

It's 7:13 here now, I went to giant eagle to get coffee as we were out. Later after my 3 y/o wakes up I'll probably head to my sons to sand joint compound with him and als fish some cable lines for him since his house doesn't have any. After that depending on the time I may see about another long bike ride. Maybe head up rt 19 towards Morraine State Park, maybe head the other way. Who knows.

Take the ride this afternoon Doug, you are right it is going to be a beautiful day and you know it seems to want to be nice during the week and rainy on the weekends.

 

[Tom]

Nice day here also BUT, 90+* and super humid. So, inside only. Shortly I will see if I can get some good deals on fruit for wine.

 

[Julie]

This past week was a very hectic week, this coming week doesn't look any better. I have two subs coming in to do an EOY physical count starting tomorrow. So that means running from the office to the warehouse 100 times each day.

I have a pile of yard work that needs done and my son calls me yesterday and asks when was I coming to pick cherries. Cherries?????? I had no idea he had any cherries! His comment was he figured I knew the tree in his front yard was a cherry tree because I don't seem to notice anything else but fruit trees. So now it is off to pick cherries. My cherry trees did not fair well even thou I was able to save the cherries, they never grew, I seen cherry pits bigger than my cherries. So I left the birds eat them.

Busy week but hopefully I'll be fermenting cherries.

 

[jeepingchick]

oh julie! Lcky!! i love cherries!! *sigh*

ok, i had a freaking bast last night. the band was awsome, the DD was just so sweet to drive us drunkards around and celebrate my day with me(its turning into a week huh) (LOL) i spent to much money (only brought cash tho so its not to bad LOL) and i ate way to much!!! (thank you god for blessing us with the makers of that wonderful purple pill called Nexium!) and im a wee bit hungover but seeing as how ive been up since 7am, its not to very bad.just cotton mouth and a mild ache in the back of my haed that is already leaving!! Oh and thank you to the makers of shiner bock....thanks to my personal efforts the keg had to be changed out lets just say i left with a hundred...cover was 15...dinner was 5 (spilt appatizer)...and ive only got 5 bucks left HAHAHAHAH thank god i only had cash !!oh and i only bought 3 rounds of shots...but had 4 rounds purchased for me wonderful night yall!!!

 

[Julie]

Glad you had a great night, Nikki

And I plan on making a one gallon batch of chocolate cherry wine, oooooh just the sound of it sounds like heaven.

 

[jeepingchick]

oh man...choco cherry wine mmmmmmm....hmmm im not that far away ....if you end up with a bottle "missing" just blame the wine fairys, i had not thing to do with it i swear (crossing fingers behind back )

 

[Tom]

Score


Went to my fruit monger and got 40# of Strawberry for $21. Now to destem slice and freeze them.