I’ve decided that on Sundays I’m not going to post anything new. Well, after today that is. Because everyone needs a break, including you who probably curse me under your breath when you get behind and find that I haven’t given you a break by not posting something. So there ya go. I’m giving myself…
It was a dark and stormy night…wait, no it wasn’t! I had always been curious about how wine was made. Sure, I made all the fun winery trips when I used to live out in Seattle, and a ‘vacation’ was a road trip to visit a bunch of wineries, enamored by the complicated process of…
Making Apple Wine from fresh apples can be labor-intensive, but the end result has been more than rewarding. Since Mother Nature messed with the production of apples on our apple tree this year, and my 5-on-1 apple tree is too young yet to produce very many apples, I was in a bit of a conundrum…
Mother Nature pulled a fast one on us this year, the cooler-than-normal summer didn’t bode well for the apples or grapes. Well, add to that the aggressive nature in which we hacked pruned the apple tree last fall quite possibly had something to do with the fact we hardly got any apples off the tree…
Last week was the start to the Kit Wine, Spanish Tempranillo: Believe it or not, Step Two is even easier than Step One. The Primary Fermentation went off without a hitch, I checked the SG levels and since it was hovering around 1.010, it was time to ‘rack’ the wine from the bucket to a…
A couple of weeks ago I posted about Kit Wine…well, this week the moment you’ve been waiting for… Today we’re going to make the Spanish Tempranillo: The beauty of Kit Wine is that it’s easy, and most of them contain everything you need. Like the ‘bladder’ full of the premium crushed grape juice: The yeast,…
I know some of you were expecting this week’s post to see the wine kit ‘in action’, but last week was ‘one of those weeks’ and I didn’t get a chance to get that started. But since Hovering Hubby is home today for the holiday, he’s planning to keep the Princess Nagger occupied so I…
