Ok, it hasn’t got a lot to do with making wine, but I’ve been waiting a long time for tonight’s episode of Lost. I made a wine from Old Orchard Concord grape concentrate, yep the kind you buy in the grocery store, and labeled it in honor of the show. This sort of wine will […]
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A Chocolate Store
Posted in misc on Jan 30th, 2008
Chocolate: Always too small, but never the wrong size
My latest store sells chocolate for special occasions. Chocolate is a great gift, and not just for Valentine’s Day. While other things might be returned for all sorts of reasons: doesn’t fit, wrong color, already have one, why would I ever want one, when was the last […]
Washington Winemaker Does Photography!
Posted in misc on Dec 17th, 2007
I’ve been trying show my wine and mead in a better light. The above photo shows two of my meads and one of my wines. Wildflower mead, from A Simple Mead Recipe, stands in the center with raspberry mead in the 1-gallon jug on the left. Those meads almost glow, while my raspberry wine is […]
Just Do It
Posted in misc on Nov 2nd, 2007
I’ve got a freezer full of rhubarb, tomatoes, and grapes. They, and the apples in my refrigerator, are all destined to become wine. What’s the holdup? Chemicals. I need more sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to do acid titration and buffer solution to calibrate my pH meter. If I’d ordered them online, they’d have arrived by now […]
New And Improved Washington Winemaker!
Posted in misc on Oct 1st, 2007
I use Wordpress software to run this blog, and I upgraded to the latest version over the weekend. If all went well, the site should be a little quicker and more secure, but shouldn’t look all that different. I still have some details to work out, but I think the upgrade was a success. If […]
Buying A Digital Camera
Posted in misc on Jun 3rd, 2007
Steam Engine In A Sports Car: Using a film camera to illustrate my blog
I own two cameras: a Ricoh KR-5 and a Yashica T4. Both are 35mm film cameras. The Ricoh is a manual SLR and the Yashica is a point-and-shoot. They’re great cameras, and when I started, I intended to use them to illustrate […]