Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
My Christmas nightcap - a little Michter's bourbon.
What's in your glass tonight?
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They're not in my glass at the moment, but they will be in upcoming days. A very nice gift from Mrs. WM81.
I'm hard to buy for, as I don't need much that I don't already have. I like consumables, because I don't have to find a place to store them.
My dad was like this and it sometimes irritated me ... until I got to the age where he was at that time!
I'm hard to buy for, as I don't need much that I don't already have. I like consumables, because I don't have to find a place to store them.
My dad was like this and it sometimes irritated me ... until I got to the age where he was at that time!
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
-- Mark Twain
The Roast Beast is on the smoker........
retaste of 100% homegrown organic Regent 2023:
Appearance - purple ink
Smell - good nose, a bit cold out of the cooler in a bottle but the smell is fine and lingers, red currants, prunes and black cherries
Tannin- good
Acid - good
Flavour - This is very interesting and should improve as it ages. It has tannin in the aftertaste which is good. I'd rate this as good-very good. I've never rated a home made red as very good until now. This one is on that path.
retaste 2 days after being open at room temperature:
Smell - red currants, cranberries, prunes, cherries
Tannin - good
Acid - good
Flavour - this is much better after being open for 2 days. It is the best homegrown red IMHO that I've ever made. I rate it as drum roll...........very good. I had it unlabeled with no shrink caps marked on the corks with "R" since I only considered it as a cooking wine. I'm going to seal it, label it with my home vineyard label and store it as a premium wine. This is a revelation for me and I will absolutely strive to make it again with 71B/RC 212 yeast blend with nutrient.. I should get ~20 bottles from 60 lbs grapes at SG 1.086 in 2025. I'll pick them when they start to shrivel like Amarone grapes or wasps hit them, whichever comes first, and ferment them hand de-stemmed and uncrushed.
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retaste of Cyser 2023
Appearance - clear gold
Smell - good complex nose, honey smell is dominant above the russet apple smell, slight pleasant creaminess and nuttiness (e.g. cashews)
Tannin- good
Acid - good
Flavour - This is very rich and tasty, mostly from fresh organic homegrown Russet apple juice chaptalized with unpasteurized blueberry blossom honey. No oxidation in spite of its colour as far as I can tell except for a slight pleasant creaminess which lends itself to a sauce with nutmeg, purple sage, lemon thyme and garlic. I think that it could be really good as a cooking wine in something like turkey or chicken tetrazzini with fresh herbs (we still have fresh herbs and no snow in this part of Canada!) and cremini mushrooms. I'm going over to my daughter's tomorrow for boxing day Xmas dinner with the entire family (11 in total). If I'm lucky enough to get the turkey carcass, I'll use that to make the tetrazzini with linguine the following day. If I don't, I'll cook my own turkey or a chicken to use the carcass the same way. If I make a big batch, I'll leave out the cream and parmesan on some of it so I can freeze it. I'll use this when I saute onions so they don't burn, together with bell peppers, broccoli, celery, garlic, tomatoes, fresh purple sage, fresh lemon thyme, fresh garlic, nutmeg, lemon pepper and turkey or chicken carcass bits with cream and parmesan cheese with linguine. I'll season my own chicken or turkey with Chinese 5 spice and stuff either with onions, chopped apples and/or mandarins and celery.
Hope that you are all having a wonderful Xmas
Klaus
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Xmas New Years Turkey Tetrazzini
Find a white wine that you have made that is slightly old - especially slightly or majorly creamy or nutty. Homemade sherry is fine also. You can even use an old homemade rose.
Pour yourself a glass and put on some of your favourite music.
Close the kitchen doors.
Shake your booty.
Chop 2 medium or 1 large onion very fine and saute in olive oil.
Add your wine in bits every time the onions dry out or start to burn.
Add 2 cups of chopped celery and/or chopped broccoli or any other green vegetable that you like including frozen vegetables like green beens or even zucchini. Even frozen peas, peas and carrots or corn. Add your wine in bits so the vegetables don't burn. Stir the mix up.
Add 1 1/2 to 2 chopped and diced yellow, orange or red bell peppers. If you only have green, e.g. frozen then use green.
Add 1 pound of cleaned, diced mushrooms. I like Creminis or Portabellas. White mushrooms are fine. You can use 1 or 2 canned sliced mushrooms if you don't have fresh.
Add 3 or 4 minced garlic cloves + 3 diced tomatoes (I like romas). If you don't have fresh garlic you can use garlic powder.
If your wine glass is empty top it up!
Add your spices - I like purple sage, lemon thyme and nutmeg but you can use Italian seasoning and nutmeg or even add chopped nuts e.g. cashews from a coffee grinder (or leave the nuts out)
Slowly dice stripped scraps from your turkey carcass. Try to get about 3/4 to 1 pound of turkey.
Add your turkey to your pan of vegetables and spices with wine.
Cook the whole mixture until everything is tender and then add some cream with parmesan cheese or Asiago or Romano.
Stir it up and taste it.
Adjust your seasonings anyway you like e.g. tamari, worcestershire, salt or pepper, smoked paprika
Boil a handful of linguine.
Add the linguine to the tetrazzini and mix it.
Serve the turkey tetrazzini linguine
Be happy!
Namaste
Klaus
Find a white wine that you have made that is slightly old - especially slightly or majorly creamy or nutty. Homemade sherry is fine also. You can even use an old homemade rose.
Pour yourself a glass and put on some of your favourite music.
Close the kitchen doors.
Shake your booty.
Chop 2 medium or 1 large onion very fine and saute in olive oil.
Add your wine in bits every time the onions dry out or start to burn.
Add 2 cups of chopped celery and/or chopped broccoli or any other green vegetable that you like including frozen vegetables like green beens or even zucchini. Even frozen peas, peas and carrots or corn. Add your wine in bits so the vegetables don't burn. Stir the mix up.
Add 1 1/2 to 2 chopped and diced yellow, orange or red bell peppers. If you only have green, e.g. frozen then use green.
Add 1 pound of cleaned, diced mushrooms. I like Creminis or Portabellas. White mushrooms are fine. You can use 1 or 2 canned sliced mushrooms if you don't have fresh.
Add 3 or 4 minced garlic cloves + 3 diced tomatoes (I like romas). If you don't have fresh garlic you can use garlic powder.
If your wine glass is empty top it up!
Add your spices - I like purple sage, lemon thyme and nutmeg but you can use Italian seasoning and nutmeg or even add chopped nuts e.g. cashews from a coffee grinder (or leave the nuts out)
Slowly dice stripped scraps from your turkey carcass. Try to get about 3/4 to 1 pound of turkey.
Add your turkey to your pan of vegetables and spices with wine.
Cook the whole mixture until everything is tender and then add some cream with parmesan cheese or Asiago or Romano.
Stir it up and taste it.
Adjust your seasonings anyway you like e.g. tamari, worcestershire, salt or pepper, smoked paprika
Boil a handful of linguine.
Add the linguine to the tetrazzini and mix it.
Serve the turkey tetrazzini linguine
Be happy!
Namaste
Klaus
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Ohio Bob
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Apres kit dessert port. Tastes like the day I bottled it. Very surprising since it was “corked” with a plastic tasting cork (see tasting cork next to the glass). Also on the bottle is a new vacuum stopper, stopper and plunger all in one piece.
How do you like it?
Ohio Bob
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It’s hot. I reviewed my notes and remembered this was the kit where I didn’t read the instructions very well. I added the sorbate pack, chapitalization pack, flavoring pack to the wine and THEN racked off the gross lees.
I also was just making the kit as I thought I understood, didn’t even take hydrometer readings. So it never occurred to me that the chapitalization pack might also increase the ABV. So when I did the Pearson Square to calculate the Everclear addition I probably overshot. My notes also show I later topped off the 3g carboy with 50ml of straight Everclear 190.
Whoever coined the phrase “wine is forgiving” probably doesn’t realize how right they are.
A lesson!
Christmas Eve lunch was salmon in a balsamic glaze, so we served a rose Prosecco and a FWK Blackberry. The Kirkland Prosecco is good. At 2 yo the Blackberry is holding very nicely. The Muscat was somewhat disappointing -- it's a good quality wine, but the flavors are muted. I'd never had a sweet Muscat before, so it was worth trying.
Christmas dinner was baked ham with sweet potatoes and fresh rolls. Blanc de Blanc goes well with ham, and I opened the FWK Strawberry so my son's girlfriend could try it (given that the bottle is over half gone, it was liked!). The Sauternes was very good!
My son loves Rye, so I gave him a bottle for Christmas. This one is a bit hot (93 proof) but has a nice flavor. After the wine we had about half an ounce, just to sample. I'd add a small ice cube to a double shot to dilute it just a bit.
Christmas dinner was baked ham with sweet potatoes and fresh rolls. Blanc de Blanc goes well with ham, and I opened the FWK Strawberry so my son's girlfriend could try it (given that the bottle is over half gone, it was liked!). The Sauternes was very good!
My son loves Rye, so I gave him a bottle for Christmas. This one is a bit hot (93 proof) but has a nice flavor. After the wine we had about half an ounce, just to sample. I'd add a small ice cube to a double shot to dilute it just a bit.
Last nights wine of choice with our roast beast. 3 hour decant and let it warm up from 52F (cellar temp) to ~65F before serving. It was still singing after 2 hours. DNS!
Working through some leftovers and found this 2020 Austin Hope Chenin Blanc in the cellar that went exceptionally well with the leftover Shrimp Poblano from last week. DNS!
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When you become a member and make your first purchase from Costco because they SAY they will deliver and install your dishwasher, only to dump it in your kitchen and leave, while promising an installer will come by later, and then when you call later they say, "Nah, we don't install there, it's all on you from here."
And when that event only occurred after the 9:15 a.m. delivery was delayed until 12:30 p.m. because at 8:50 the truck had passed by your house (with clearly enumerated mailbox) in the era of GPS and turned into a muddy unused driveway that goes back to an abandoned trailer and got stuck back there, then had to wait 3-1/2 hours to be towed out.
And after all that, when you've had Costco hand you your ass for services you paid for, and gone to the maker's website to get the installation instructions – only to find out the maker has the item on sale direct for $30 LESS than you paid on Black Friday sale at Costco...
Well, after a day like that, it's Koonunga Hill time.
(<<< I only wish this was how I really feel. Maybe a few more glasses...)
And when that event only occurred after the 9:15 a.m. delivery was delayed until 12:30 p.m. because at 8:50 the truck had passed by your house (with clearly enumerated mailbox) in the era of GPS and turned into a muddy unused driveway that goes back to an abandoned trailer and got stuck back there, then had to wait 3-1/2 hours to be towed out.
And after all that, when you've had Costco hand you your ass for services you paid for, and gone to the maker's website to get the installation instructions – only to find out the maker has the item on sale direct for $30 LESS than you paid on Black Friday sale at Costco...
Well, after a day like that, it's Koonunga Hill time.
(<<< I only wish this was how I really feel. Maybe a few more glasses...)
jswordy
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When you become a member and make your first purchase from Costco because they SAY they will deliver and install your dishwasher, only to dump it in your kitchen and leave, while promising an installer will come by later, and then when you call later they say, "Nah, we don't install there, it's all on you from here."
And when that event only occurred after the 9:15 a.m. delivery was delayed until 12:30 p.m. because at 8:50 the truck had passed by your house (with clearly enumerated mailbox) in the era of GPS and turned into a muddy unused driveway that goes back to an abandoned trailer and got stuck back there, then had to wait 3-1/2 hours to be towed out.
And after all that, when you've had Costco hand you your ass for services you paid for, and gone to the maker's website to get the installation instructions – only to find out the maker has the item on sale direct for $30 LESS than you paid on Black Friday sale at Costco...
Well, after a day like that, it's Koonunga Hill time.
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Ahhhh.... Feeling much better now. Into this one...
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