Got the cranberry wine out of the primary fermenter, finally! This mass of mush was what remained…
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It’s amazing how many parts of winemaking involve things that share names with medieval torture devices. Both grapes and witches get pressed, for example. And in some unsanitary dual-purpose world, I’m sure that racking wine means something other than using a siphon to move it from one carboy to another.
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You know, if there’s somebody going through our trash who doesn’t read this ‘blog, they’re gonna be absolutely baffled by the stuff they find in there this week… In addition to about ten or fifteen pounds of lacerated cranberry, there’s going to be the seeds and rinds from the dozen or so pie pumpkins that we shredded tonight.
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I’m beginning to get mighty ticked off at the batch of cranberry wine that we tried to get started up over the holidays… Cranberries are a traditional part of Thanksgiving, so it seemed like an appropriate time to try making them into wine. Unfortunately, it looks like they’re not going to cooperate until they are good and ready. I’ve added fresh brewing yeast twice now, and there’s not so much as a bubble from the bucket.
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Very successful dinner last night.. Had the in-laws over (Hey! I’ve got in-laws!) and served up a dinner of broiled chicken breast with wild rice and steamed broccoli, with assorted cheeses and smoked fish as an appetizer. We served up some of the apple wine too, and it was very tasty.
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I just had to go with a slightly modified version of “Vampiress” as the font for this one… Even if making it into wine has caused it to change to a paler shade, there’s just something inherently creepy about blood oranges.
Thanks to a slow work day and a longer-than-usual lunch, we’ve got a design for the apple wine!
This may not work if your browser can’t display .PNG files correctly, but here it is:
Plus this also gives me a chance to link to that grated magnum opiate, the HTML edition of the Principca Discordia. If you’re a bit behind on your Greek mythology, it’ll explain the whole golden apple and “kallisti” reference. Or not. It’s a fun read anyway.
Well, I put an order in at E. C. Kraus for some more winemaking hardware… A six gallon primary fermenter, some bottle-neck shrinkwrap dohickeys and a case of little 375 ml mini bottles for gifts and giveaways. One of the things that my Fiancee and I have planned for post-wedding relaxation is the bottling of the apple wine.
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I’ve got a carboy of apple wine in my cellar that I haven’t talked about very much. I started it up before I had the ‘blog, so that’s one reason it hasn’t gotten much mention here… The other reason is that it just hasn’t been doing very well.
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Got some cool feedback on the old Pumpkin Wine entry from some folks at the University of Minnesota’s Enology program. I had no idea that there was a group out there with the daunting (but tasty!) task of trying to coax a viable wine grape industry out of the frozen Minnesota soil.
All kidding aside, I’d love to see how things go for them… Some of the Michigan wineries have had to overcome the poor weather conditions, and they produce some really good stuff.
Personally, I like the idea of having hundreds of locally brewed wines. It’s just really cool… I ran into that in Switzerland at the Transplant Games a couple of years ago. One of the hospitals cafeterias served wine from grapes grown on the premises…
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