Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue
Posted in maintenance & cleaning on Nov 25th, 2008
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Posted in experiments, mead, Recipes on Nov 17th, 2008
This is for Medsen Fey, and anyone else, who wanted to know the recipe I used in my boiling mead experiment. I want to describe what I did and why. If you think I’ve left anything out, please ask! Good feedback here can improve future experiments – and not just mine. I’d really like to [...]
Posted in winemaking on Nov 10th, 2008
There are some good reasons to make wine in 5-gallon (19 liter) or larger batches. Once you know what you’re doing, it takes about the same amount of effort to make five gallons of wine as it does to make one. The amount of headspace in a 5-gallon carboy isn’t much more than in a [...]