Bottling/Kegging Day!

**YooperBrew** · 10-09-2008, 06:54 PM

I bottled 11 gallons of wine this morning (from a friend's grape harvest- catawba grapes, I believe) to make room for this year's harvest, and 10 gallons of beer was kegged. Here's what my kitchen looked like this morning:

Now, the IPA (back) is kegged, the mild (in the ale pail) is kegged, and all that wine is bottled. I'm having a beer to celebrate!

**flyangler18** · 10-09-2008, 06:58 PM

Way to go, Yoop!

I'm kegging your DFH 60 clone (dry hopping in the keg), a dry stout and a pale ale today. I really should start cleaning 8 cases of bottles I've got sitting in the basement sometime soon.

**springer** · 10-09-2008, 08:11 PM

hey Yooper while yous in the kitchen could ya make me a sandwich?

Runnin for cover as the steak knife flies by.

Nice job ......

**jcdillin** · 10-09-2008, 08:22 PM

thats fricken awesome, my wife gives me the evil eye if I even leave the carboy on the counter for too long

**YooperBrew** · 10-09-2008, 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by springer

hey Yooper while yous in the kitchen could ya make me a sandwich?

Runnin for cover as the steak knife flies by.

Nice job ......

Haha! Actually, I've been making cheese now too, and we got a deer last weekend with a bow. So, how about some nice thin sliced venison and goat cheese sandwiches on homemade sourdourgh, along with a glass of homebrewed APA or a glass of my shiraz to wash it all down? Yep, that's what I had! (Goat cheese was my first cheesemaking attempt- and it's really fantastic). On the side we had some fresh pickled beets from the garden, too. So, are you jealous yet?

**springer** · 10-09-2008, 09:37 PM

Sounds good. Next week I am going Salmon fishing so I can bring some smoked Salmon with homemade maple syrup glaze. Down it with the last few bottles of maple porters I have and finish off some raspberry jam we made in August on the sourdough bread toast ..

**summersolstice** · 10-09-2008, 10:01 PM

Looks like fun Yoop - The thing I like about wine is that for us lazy folks we can leave it in a carboy forever and all we have to do is make sure there's still a little vodka left in the air lock! I have six carboys in various stages and I too need to bottle some.

**YooperBrew** · 10-10-2008, 01:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by summersolstice

Looks like fun Yoop - The thing I like about wine is that for us lazy folks we can leave it in a carboy forever and all we have to do is make sure there's still a little vodka left in the air lock! I have six carboys in various stages and I too need to bottle some.

That was really my motivating factor- My friend is giving me this years grapes in the next couple of weeks, and I'd like to be able to hand him a bottle or two to prove I've actually done something with them! I've actually played with them alot- acid reduction, MLF, bulk aging- but nothing like you do with beer. Those carboys have been full for ages, and I need some emptied.

I still have 6 gallons of this year's rhubarb wine, 6 gallons of chokecherry, 1 gallon of last year's sour cherry, 5 gallons of crabapple/apple, and probably a few odds and ends around to bottle sometimes. Maybe next spring.

**HarvInSTL** · 10-11-2008, 08:52 AM

Nice! I jumped into wine this year and have about 15 gallons going. How did the cheese making go? That is my next project since I've done wine, cider, mead and beer this year. Cheese just seemed like the next choice.

**DutchK9** · 10-12-2008, 01:51 AM

You out to be set for the winter. I bet that was a lot of work!
Tomorrow I need to rack two of my wines.

10-09-2008, 06:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
flyangler18 Brewing Rugger Recipes Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Hanover, PA Posts: 1,454 flyangler18's Gallery	Way to go, Yoop! I'm kegging your DFH 60 clone (dry hopping in the keg), a dry stout and a pale ale today. I really should start cleaning 8 cases of bottles I've got sitting in the basement sometime soon. __________________ Barking Beagle Brewing Company

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springer Senior Member Recipes Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Wappingers falls NY Posts: 776 springer's Gallery	hey Yooper while yous in the kitchen could ya make me a sandwich? Runnin for cover as the steak knife flies by. Nice job ...... __________________ primary Biermuncher's OktoberFAST ale secondary Stout Kegged Octoberfest , Irish red, Apfelwein Saison,Pale Ale

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springer Senior Member Recipes Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Wappingers falls NY Posts: 776 springer's Gallery	Sounds good. Next week I am going Salmon fishing so I can bring some smoked Salmon with homemade maple syrup glaze. Down it with the last few bottles of maple porters I have and finish off some raspberry jam we made in August on the sourdough bread toast .. __________________ primary Biermuncher's OktoberFAST ale secondary Stout Kegged Octoberfest , Irish red, Apfelwein Saison,Pale Ale

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summersolstice Senior Member Recipes Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Nebraska, USA Posts: 524 summersolstice's Gallery BLOG ENTRIES: 5	Looks like fun Yoop - The thing I like about wine is that for us lazy folks we can leave it in a carboy forever and all we have to do is make sure there's still a little vodka left in the air lock! I have six carboys in various stages and I too need to bottle some. __________________ Mead: It's what's for breakfast. Drunken Friar Cellars

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HarvInSTL On my way to London. Recipes Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Saint Louis, MO Posts: 637 HarvInSTL's Gallery BLOG ENTRIES: 1	Nice! I jumped into wine this year and have about 15 gallons going. How did the cheese making go? That is my next project since I've done wine, cider, mead and beer this year. Cheese just seemed like the next choice. __________________ Primary: Hop Harvest APA, 9/9/9-My version, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Raspberry Melomel On deck: Prickly Pear Mead, PU Clone, Sticke Alt Live in Saint Louis, MO? Then check out www.stlbrews.org and www.garagebrewers.com

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jcdillin Senior Member Recipes Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 158 jcdillin's Gallery	thats fricken awesome, my wife gives me the evil eye if I even leave the carboy on the counter for too long

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