What's going on in your winery today..

[ms67]

hehe, shrink necks, i do something similar, more like a key/code than co-ordinated.

today i have to make a quick dash to the shops for some grape concentrate and then i'll start a rose petal wine (1 gallon), from dried petals. The better half was intrigued when she saw them in the HBS, and that got me curious too. I didn't find a rose petal wine recipe on WAH so i'll post my version later.

[ms67]

rose petal wine is on the go, another first for me. Just a gallon.

OG 1082 - Bob will be pleased that i'm paying attention

[spritzer]

Today, I think I'm turning into a Label Ponce . Up to now, my labels have been purely functional (i.e. what is in the bottle - I look at my electronic notes if I want to know any more detail). However, the Selection Ltd Edition kits come with very nice labels, so I have acually been CLEANING THE BOTTLES to make sure they stick nicely, and applying COLOUR CO-ORDINATED shrink capsules. This all takes longer than bottling did

Welcome to MY world

[wisp]

Colour coordination ... hmmmm ... I could always colour the tops of the corks with a gem marker

[spritzer]

Just racked my fruit red

Just about to degass my kit white

[wisp]

bottled 1 gal of elderberry and racked plum, which appears to be sparklingly clear - methinks that will be bottled soon.

Bottled 5 gal of mild too

[goldseal]

Racked my Elderberry + Blackberry from primary into DJs.

I was hoping to do a bit of sweetening and bottling (Port, Rhubarb), but Mrs.G (assistant taster) is feeling under the weather. How inconsiderate

[lockwood1956]

Tell her she needs to shape up!


but please don't tell her it was my idea!

[goldseal]

I have made a note to mention it to her in the morning, when she's at her grumpiest

[ms67]

i'm grumpy

and i'm afraid of my whizz stick now

all was fine for the racking, degassing etc of the elderberry & blackberry wine, but when it came to the 100% wild blackberry, well they went wild ....

the whizz stick went
the wine went volcanic
my eyes went

and i spontaneously yelled "arggh i think i ruined the carpet!"

on the plus side ... it tastes great, sharp and fruity how i like it. i think it'll mellow a little but i'm still optimistic for another beauty, even tho i lost a glass to the carpet grrrr. degassing little by little by hand for a few days methinks!

[wisp]

and i'm afraid of my whizz stick now

surely that has got to be Freudian!

[Paulwales]

am racking two gallons of Rosehip into DJs, but didnt have any and was getting worried till last night a mate very unexpectedly dropped off 2 very dusty DJs he had been promising for months, so I'm back on it

still cant believe I went down the recycling plant and the moron that works there had just smashed 10 DJs and a 5 gallon DJ.... I have debriefed him now though and future DJs will go my way for 50p a DJ

[ukric]

and i spontaneously yelled "arggh i think i ruined the carpet!"

This is precisely why I do my 'whizzing' in the bath (sorry couldn't resist)

Today I shall be hoping to feel better and attempting to:

Test the SG of 5 variations of No1, Finings for 1G wine no 1, Finings for 1G Strawberry, start 1G of red fruit tea bag and red grape wine, Start a rose from red grape and white grape - 2 litres of each to 1G. Start a few gal of pure red grape juice wine. Also see what I can get into bottles.

[ms67]

i'll possibly do my whizzing in the bath too from now on

[goldseal]

Not a lot - just checking some SGs.

The cold weather are stretching out some of the fermentation times, meaning I'm probably going to be in trouble if I haven't cleared all the DJs out of the house and into the garage by Christmas