Posted on 06/08/2012 3:28:55 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232
We’ve done wine from kits and last month did our first beer kit. It was ready to bottle about three weeks ago, and things kept happening that prevented bottling. Is it too late? Is it still good? Thanks!
Please add me to the ping list. My sweetie & I make fruit wines. We’ve even won some ribbons in amateur competitions, until Oregon realized they’d written some really archaic rules into the constitution & banned us from state & county fairs.
Our specialty is blackberry, & we’ve done some unusual wines, like banana. We also made a port once that came out wonderfully. Wish I’d made a bigger batch!
It is not two late. The longer you bulk condition the beer in the secondary is sometime very beneficial. Bottle it up!
We do a really nice Newcastle style brown ale. Yum! If you have a ping list for this, please add me.
Thanks!
Ever done a fig wine?
No real advice for kegging other than get the 20lb CO2 cylinder and don’t mess with the 5lb one.
Red_Devil 232 please add me to your ping list.
I used to brew lots of beers but my house is kinda small so I usually brew at a friends house.
Me and a friend did about 50 gallons of fruit wines last year. The cherry is my favorite followed by current. We get free fruit from people looking to get fruit cleaned up. Free wine is the best wine.
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Very good news indeed! I haven’t had the heart (or stomach) to open that fermenter and see what might be in there! I will text hubby now with this info. I’m putting baby girl down here in a few minutes and after I check on her big brother, I will pop the top off of a Blue Moon. Not homemade, but still one of my all-time faves. If anyone has a kit suggestion that mimics Blue Moon let me know. Cheers!
Not too late to bottle, just make sure the airlock doesn’t go dry or you risk contamination.
Free wine and beer are the best!
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No, fig is one we haven’t tried yet. Our last unusual one was elderberry - a very small batch, just 12 375mg bottles. A friend passed on the berry juice from trees that were removed a short while later. Rats!
Have you done fig, & how did it turn out?
Please add me to your ping list. My husband and I make wine. I am having some of our 2009 Chianti.
I have not made a true wine yet. I have done a mead. the reason I asked about Fig wine is I have three fig trees at my home in Mississippi.
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Thanks. Glad to see the list. We have been making wine for about 6 years now. We started with 6 gallons of juice from California. Now we get 30 gallons of juice from California and 6 gallons of juice from Italy.
Our prinipal rule is no French on the labels!
I use Mr. Beer, it is called 1776 ale. Yes malt extract! Came out great, love the Pils though. In Europe I once had the original Budwiser, that was great. Loved all the regional brews in Germany. Once had Ganz braw , Goose beer. Lol it was very refreshing. In September 84 sat in the Lowenbraw tent at the Octoberfest and downed some liters, Lol!
I’ll have to check our recipe books & see what they say about figs. We’ve been making wine since about 1999 when we bought our current house. It had 3 apple trees, two pears, a cherry, a plum, a grape vine & a big bank of blackberry brambles. They’ve all made pretty good wine, but we finally decided to branch out - to raspberry, strawberry, marionberry, and even some real wine grapes (pinot noir, chardonnay & golden muscat). It’s definitely fun to do. It took us a while to refine our process, but now we most always end up with a good product.
When I decide to do a wine I will hit you guys up for advice.
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