Archive for the ‘wine’ Category
5 May
Busy Day!
The weather is a little lousy, my wife is at work, and the kids are cleaning their room. So I finally get to some of the things I’ve needed to get to for months. I first cleaned the kitchen. Then I bottled 5 gallons of 8 month old Apfelwein, 1 gallon of Hop Wine, racked 1 gallon of scrumpy into a secondary blend, and started a batch of Lemon Wine. Then I cleaned the kitchen again. 😉14 Apr
The Yellow and Black Attack-No, not Stryper.
The dandelions are out so that means I am gathering them. It’s a slow start, I like when there are so many I can site down and fill a bucket from where I sit. Soon. I’m not sure where these will end up; dandelion mead, dandelion wine, dandelion jelly, dandelion tea, dandelion cookies, maybe a dandelion beer. Someday I plan on planting a bed of them and bring them into our diet regularly.
14 Jan
You Make Your Own Wine and Mead? Dandelion Day
Today I bottled up my Dandelion Mead and Dandelion Wine that I made in August. Hopefully that will get rid of these darn fruitbflies! It is ridiculous how crazy they are for the stuff, they would slip through the holes on the top of my airlock and dive into the vodka and die a drunken death after swimming and swimming to get to the wine or mead. I had to change the airlocks every few weeks because they were filled with bodies of fruit flies. Nobody made it into the fine liquor though. I’ve got small samples in of each in the fridge to try later. Last time I tried them, they were still pretty hot with fusel alcohols, I expect some improvement but I bet they need a lot more time, like maybe next August or the following summer.
7 Sep
Bottle day
Bottled up my Roggenbier tonight. Racked the Dandelion mead and wine. Sampled the Skeeter Pee, rack that to secondary tomorrow.