Monday Wine

Monday turned into a wine work day. I got the blueberry and cranberry wine racked into new carboys and added finings to the blueberry. The blueberry will be ready for bottling in two weeks or so. I had a little taste of each of them as I was doing the siphon, and they’re both really tasty. I also ordered some supplies, like a bottle tree and a couple more sets of two-part finings. I checked on E. C. Kraus and Homebrew Heaven for what I was after and found that despite their lousy website design, Homebrew Heaven had better prices and more selection, including the really handy auto-shutoff bottle filler.

I also got the broken glass up off the floor of the wine cellar… I’m still not sure what triggered it, but two green glass reisling bottles decided to take a jump from the top shelf of the wire bottle rack and didn’t survive contact with the cement floor. The fallout from the decelleration trauma was in all sorts of surprising areas, and I’m sure I’m going to be finding overlooked bits of glass for quite some time.