Ping to the homebrewing wine making list
Still waiting to start bottling some wines. The plum wines turned out a bit hazy so we are going to put some fining in them to try to clear them.
I hope to get a big ratchet fruit press for next year. My partner and I are going to go in on it since we ferment the equivalent of $1000+ of wine every year. (if you average $5 a bottle.) We are producing wine at less than $1 a bottle. Nice for the po folk we are. :)
Not home brew but very nice limited qty microbrew.
Had on the other week. Yummo!
http://www.rahrbrewing.com/our-beers/seasonal-beers/oktoberfest.html
My batch of Hard Cider is sitting in the Secondary getting mellow. 1 week so far. I think I will let it get happy for a few more weeks before I cold crash it and bottle it in 1 gal. jugs.
Most of my focus is preparing to start Chemo. The next 2 weeks are pretty full with appointments. The Cider is doing it’s job as a pleasant distraction.
Just had my first glass of home brewed cider today.
Like you said, 7.5% ABV never tasted so smooth. This stuff is going to be dangerous.
Now that I have some fermenter space free, I’m doing a double batch Monday since it is supposed to be 53 and raining. Perfect brewing weather :)
Cheers,
knewshound
I would be very interested in brewing my own wine or even better, a champagne knock-off. I like a glass every now and then and it’s become very expensive. I did a little googling on wine making and it seemed complicated lol
Any advice? TIA
Well, I’m enjoying a cold glass of my “hooch-style” cider tonight too. Though it tastes like Boone’s Farm apple wine.
I used the cheapest generic “cider” since it was my first try- it was so insipid tasting I couldn’t even drink what I removed to make room for the yeast and sugar . But now that I know I can do it I’ve gotten a much better juice- and got it in bottles that my stoppers fit- and am eager to try again.
Left the apfelwine in the carboy to finish clearing after all. Another week and then I’m siphomimg it off to secondaries and starting again.
Hope to get some really good fresh local juice or cider soon to use.
I don’t think there are any hobbies as rewarding and intriguing that one can get started in for under $25!
Please add me to the ping list for this.
St. Andrew’s Altbier is out of secondary and is entering its second week of conditioning in the keg under pressure.
Tasted a bit last night, gonna be good when it finishes “gittin’ it’s FIZZY on”...excellent malt body at the start, with the hop bitterness you’d expect from a Northern German Alt, and a REALLY interesting malt sweetness that lingers on the back of the tongue.
I'm planning on a second batch now.
Speaking of beer, I gave two 22-oz bottles of a year-old bock beer to a friend last week. When he opened the first bottle, it fountained quite spectacularly. He told me about this, so we decided it was best to open the second bottle together and outdoors. That second bottle was just fine.
What happened? Double-primed?
(I don’t recall for sure if I bottle primed or batch-primed that one.)