This wine is awesome! I tried a rather large glass from the bottom of the carboy. It was cloudy but so good. I think it is ready to drink now but I will wait.I ended up with 30 bottles.
Thank you for the kind words.Yooper Chick said:Wow- that is beautiful! Such a great color. I bottled some beautiful apple wine today (no pics, though) but I did a motley assortment of bottles and it isn't nearly as gorgeous as what you have there.
Thanks for sharing your pics!
RichBrewer said:Thank you for the kind words.
I bet your apple wine is fantastic. How long did it sit before you bottled it? My two gallon batches have just started getting clear and it's been about 7 weeks. I noticed today that they are no longer suitable for photography props.
I figure they will need another 4 or 5 months before bottling.
OK. OK.Dude said:But......it isn't white.
I bought this corker:Flyin' Lion said:The wine looks good for sure, but I'm impressed by your corking abilities. All of my corks stick out 1/4 to 3/8 of and inch and everyone of them is slanted on the top. I bought a used wing-type corker, but cannot get them corks flush or even.
I didn't soak the corks. The instructions said there was no need to.Flyin' Lion said:I have that same corker (or one very similar), have adjusted the thing to plunge these corks well into the bottle and even soaked my corks in sanitizer for at least 15 mins per my LHBS instructions. This is just an unresolved problem I have--not trying to hijack your thread...
EDIT: oh and I also use synthetic corks.
I can think of worse things than drinking 30 bottles of wine alone, if you try hard they could be gone in a month.
Not a problem what so ever. We are keeping the conversation going and that's a good thing.Flyin' Lion said:I think I remember the string idea from when I hijacked your applewine thread. I gotta stop doing this to you --it's your pictures, I think.
I might just do that. I'm going to give it a few months but no matter what, maybe we should do a swap.Flyin' Lion said:If SWMBO doesn't like that White Zin and you want to do a swap let me know. Everyone who has tried this Calypso Bianco has liked it.
I pretty much did it slow and steady.Flyin' Lion said:I'm up for it.
Another question, when you "operate" the corker, do you use a slow and steady motion or one quick jerk. I try to be slow and steady, similar to capping beer bottles.
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