Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue
Posted in apple wine, DIY equipment, equipment on Sep 14th, 2010
What can you do when you’ve got too many apples for a juicer, but you don’t have a crusher and press? Here’s how I coaxed about 35% juice yield from 8 lb of apples with very little equipment and what I would do to improve that yield next time.
Posted in DIY equipment on Oct 15th, 2008
Maybe you’re trying to add just the right amount of sugar to your must, or measure out crystallized honey for mead. If you make wine or mead long enough, you’ll want to measure large quantities of liquid. I have a 2-cup (500 ml) measuring cup, but that didn’t cut it when I needed to measure [...]
Posted in DIY equipment, mead on Jul 26th, 2007
I didn’t intend to leave the cherry mead on the skins for three weeks, but there are other wines to fuss over, meadmaking questions to ponder, and even unfermentable things that a winemaker must attend to. Yesterday I poured the mead, skins, pits, pulp and all, into my homemade 3-bucket press. A bucket drilled with [...]