Recent content by Buckhuntr

Sounds amazing! Think I'll try this after my next good honey harvest (I'm a beek, mead was one of the reasons i got bees 4 years ago 😉 ).

Well that was a non-issue. Pail arrived today after all (Friday) and is still mostly frozen. So now I gotta let it thaw.

Last Friday I ordered a 5.25 gallon pail of Oregon Gewurztraminer juice from Wine Grapes Direct. It was shipped Monday (Jan 25) and tracking initially said delivery this Friday (Jan 29) via Fedex Ground. Latest update now says delivery on Monday, Feb 1! The juice pail is supposed to be in a box...

My fermenter with the Winexpert Double Noir kit going strong is sitting on the window bench seat in the kitchen, with the box the fermenter came in upended over it to keep out light, i.e. at room temp (73 day, 67 night).

I am just about to pitch a Winexpert double noir that came with oak sawdust, so what I'm reading here is to just toss the sawdust, get some chips and add during secondary. Is this a correct assessment?

I don't remember how long, but at least 5 or 6 months. I fermented to dry, and bottled it still, but it developed a little fizziness in the bottle. Still drinkable after about 5 years.

I've made 8 or 9 batches of wine altogether, and found that bulk aging almost always improves the flavor, at least to my taste. All have been from kits, except for a couple of 5-gal batches of Cab Franc and Chardonnay from juice obtained from a college run winery here in Oklahoma. I've also made...

The last batch of wine I made was a Cellar Craft Old Vine Zinfandel kit that I started around New Years Day 2017. That July I underwent heart surgery (double bypass) and the Zin bulk aged in the carboy until late 2018, turned out very well, and I still have a couple of bottles left. Anyway, life...

None right now, life has gotten in the way of my brewing/fermenting.

Put in a bog garden. :)

You could always cut the new shoots, slice and stir-fry them up with some chicken and chinese spices. Yummy!

Lots of water-thrifty natives, thyme and sedums between flagstones, found plants, gifted plants, and a neighbor decided to get rid of three huge peonies, and I grabbed them up. We're about to sell the house, and I'm going to divide a bunch of stuff before I go, for the new place. This yard was...

Here's my front yard two weeks ago. Twice as many blooms today. NO GRASS!! (except for the clump of prairie grass in the walkway). :D [/IMG]

Currently we have a 1/4 acre city lot that I maintain myself (Horticulture degree and landscaping experience.) Fertilizer is compost or other organic, only pesticide is Roundup grass killer for the bermuda that won't stay dead. Oh, and there is NO lawn grass whatsoever - we dug it all up when...