What's going on in your winery today..

[NorthernWiner]

Bottling 10 gal Riesling and 5 gal Grenache tomorrow for my in-laws.

[lockwood1956]

Nothing happening in my winery today.......

judging at the National

whoo hoo

[lockwood1956]

Last night was bottling IPA and Bitter

tonight am disgorging sparkly for YFAWB competition in May

[SiSandrine]

Cleaning up an old electric motor which will drive my homemade apple scratter. Wish I could find out how fast it goes though (RPM). Not many clues and interweb thingy not very helpful.

[NorthernWiner]

Nothing going on in my winery except some tidying up. We are having 16 people at the house for Easter dinner, and I want them to think I run a clean winery, even if it isn't most of the time.

[Rich]

After not putting any wine on for a while, I've started a gallon of apple&cherry, 2 litre bottle of juice from Tesco. Also got some more juice to make a gallon of #1 with gooseberries.

[mark g]

Last month i started two gallons of pearl barley wine
and last week i started two gallons of wine.

[Rich]

Mark g, how's the maple syrup wine coming along?


Today, I've studied the growing pile of empty bottles in the garage, and moved a few around. I really need to sort them out into a neater pile. I'm planning a big bottling day before GF11 to clear the carboys out.

I filtered 5 gallon of gooseberry #1 and a port kit, Minijet appears to be failing, leaking from the motor rear seal, and sounding unhealthy.

Then I bottled the Kenridge port that's been sitting in a square BetterBottle for a while. Sneaky taste too, very good so far! The gooseberry will have to wait for another day.

[norman]

SMS finger trouble ...

... all quiet in my shack. Currently teaching someone to make prune wine, all instructions being sent via text/SMS. Which gets interesting when his finger trouble turns 1005 into 1050. Luckily I can spot that kind of bad texting. Might have to see if there is a forum for winemaking phone short-text.

[waggoner]

Made a No1 wine a few days ago,and now its dropped to SG1015 added 1/2 a gallon of Oak leaves to it, (late addition),,will be interesting to see how it turns out???

[mark g]

Started two wine's today
one gallon of sloe berry and one gallon of orange cordaid & honey wine
they are fermenting very well

[Rich]

Bottle sorting day day. Bags of empty bottles neatly arranged into boxes. At last I can get round to the rest of the wine rack now and see what I have to drink. Also brewing a stout for the winter. My summer light ale will be later in the week.

[Her Lushness]

Rich, hows the cherry port coming along? I'm looking forward to trying it in September if I'm still allowed to come to GF

[Rich]

Hope you're coming to GF11!

Cherry port coming along ok I think. Will get it racked off again this week and test. The last bit of syrup feeding may have left it a little sweet.

Did you make any this year?

[goldseal]

Got my WE Blackberry Port kit on the go over the weekend.

That reminds me - must check the Black Cherry Port.