What's going on in your winery today..

[Rich]

Brought my now clear pineapple gallon of wine inside to warm up slightly, I'll rack it off the slight bit of lees later, if that goes ok I'll see about bottling it. Hope it turns out ok, the pineapple chunks came from Costco for £2.50 for a massive catering tin.

My copy of Progressive Winemaking turned up yesterday. 1p from Amazon, £2.75 postage though. Being a tight git I thought I'd get the 1967ish version for 1p, I was pleasantly surprised when it turned up in good condition and it's a 1999 revision!

[koomber]

Brought my now clear pineapple gallon of wine inside to warm up slightly, I'll rack it off the slight bit of lees later, if that goes ok I'll see about bottling it. Hope it turns out ok, the pineapple chunks came from Costco for £2.50 for a massive catering tin.

My copy of Progressive Winemaking turned up yesterday. 1p from Amazon, £2.75 postage though. Being a tight git I thought I'd get the 1967ish version for 1p, I was pleasantly surprised when it turned up in good condition and it's a 1999 revision!

Result!

Out of curiosity, why would you let the pineapple warm up?

[Rich]

It should be fully degassed already, but once I've racked it off the light dusting of lees I'll give it another shake before bottling it. Being warmer will let it release the co2 easier (or so I'm led to believe) Wasn't going to bother filtering this one, as it's just an experiment to see how it goes!

[goldseal]

Degassed and stabilised my WE Ltd Ed Pacific Quartet.

Started a gallon of 'use up odds and ends' wine - A Wine No.1 with a bit og WGC, which will have elderflower syrup added late on.

[ukric]

Started

5 G Beaverdale Shriaz
5 G CC Riesling
5 G Lychee

Considering starting a gallon of Lychee/Strawberry Rose

[goldseal]

A bit grumpy today - last Thursday my elderflowers hadn't quite flowered. Got back after a week away and the flowers had come and gone . I'll have to get my boots on tomorrow and go searching.

Result. Went on a foraging trip this morning: 2 or 3 litres - worth of elderflower syrup on the go

[spritzer]

As predicted....
The sisters, sisters in law, and neices, gossiped amoungst themselves, and tonight I have had a steady stream of visitors, when offered, "do you want a wee bottle of wine ?", the unanimous reply was, "do you have any of that pineapple stuff?"
Aye....Right...

Anyway... there will be the usual "fair" holiday wines available for them...
Though, I dont think they are expecting it this year... I might save their "fair" wines for xmas

As per topic of the thread, nowt winemaking has been done... but I have bottled 8 bottles of pineapple wine. The rest is in wine bags at the moment

I still have to bottle my Sauvignon Blanc, that I got on offer a couple of months back

[spritzer]

Just making some elderflower cordial...
It doesn't smell too good
Its still simmering...
I will see how it is after the sugar addition.
But it might be going in the bin, if the smell now is anything to go by....

[ms67]

General organising and preparation ready for racking the 5 gallon batch of Elderflower wine. It felt good so organised the wine rack too with new additions, all labelled nice etc. It felt good so I pressed on with some quality control and opened a 2 year old Rosehip & Star Anise. It felt good, and still does, but but enough chat, I'm going to get a second glass now.

[modofodo]

Last night I....

Bottled my cheapy Mondego kit and sampled some of the left over - somehow only got 5 and a half bottles despite being at the 4.5L marker?!

Sieved and strained Sloe wine to 2ndary.

Added finings to WN1 as it ain't doing it on it's own.

Added finings to Beaverdale Barolo.

Racked WN1 Elderflower to 2ndary.

Today I will be mostly working, though the missus is shopping so might get some juices that were requested (Cherry Good, Blueberry and if i am lucky a tin of Lychees)

[davekermito]

Got my usual monthly delivery from my local HBS that delivers to me for free, but won't be named until I get a freebie for all the business I give them!

So that's a CC 5gal Merlot and a CC 5 gal Barolo on the go, yet again! 6 crystal clear DJs of slightly different variations of WN1 that will be ready to bottle soon and a (last remaining) King Keg of a spicy fruity wheatbeer, complete with coriander, bloody expensive specialist liquid yeast, and the rind of 'a-few-fruits-that-have-no-place-in-the-brew-room' experiment that is cask conditioning ready for this weekends sun drenched barbeque session.

Happy days.

[lockwood1956]

Ginger beer ready for racking an priming (tonight)

3 gal batch of wine No1 on the go, should be approaching 1.000 by the weekend, ready to have some fresh elderflowers popped in there, to add yummy bouquet.

[goldseal]

Yesterday I bottled 4 - 5 litres of elderflower syrup. I am in the process of freezing a litre to see if that's a viable method of storing it.

Today I tried (and failed) to use the remainder of last year's elderflower syrup, topping up a standard wine no.1.

A bit of post-breakfast tasting

http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=73531

http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=73533

Also tasted some Rondo 2009 second-run, which I'd hoped to blend with some Wine No.1 to make a cheap rosé, but it is just too tannic. This will go at the back of the cupboard for a year or two, to become cheap red plonk

Just about to get a Kenridge Showcase Petit Verdot / Cab Sav kit on the go, and a Mondego Chardonnay (which will be split into gallon batches for lychee, gooseberry, elderflower etc).

[lockwood1956]

Bottled and primed the ginger beer from the "safe Ginger Beer" tutorial

its been sat at 0.994 for three days in a row.


bottled in 250 ml pet bottles

4 dry
4 medium 1/2 tsp sorbitol per bottle
4 sweet 1 tsp sorbitol per bottle

all primed with 1/4 tsp sugar per bottle to carbonate it.

[koomber]

Racked 1 gallon of ancient orange mead.
Transferred 5 gallons of Muntons Conner-sewer IPA into a secondry.
Racked a wine number 1 (with Welchs apple grape and pear juice) and degassed and fined.
Racked 5 gallons of the above that was made on the the lees left from the first racking of a Beaverdale Chateau du Roi.