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I'm just mister 20 questions today. How do you remove the skins without ending up with aeration? I get the idea of putting them in a mesh bag but pulling it out is gonna result in splash would it not? Also you're supposed to squeeze the skins since they'll be full of yummy wine (or so a few...

Nah these are some sort of grapes, they're actually hybrids I think, cause my dad planted 2 types of grapes close together and some times you get some white grapes in some of the bunches that you would think are unripe but they're quite sweet and ripe tasting. Is it possible for 2 types to...

Ok sending my wife to Lowe's to get some paint strainers, I'll strain and squeeze tonight, then see what I've got when I'm done with that. So here's the basic plan: squeeze and strain out the liquid add water and sugar to a roughly 1.100 reading ?? save some (or all?) of the pulp in a...

Hmm maybe these aren't concords after all? Because the liquid in my bucket is dark dark red almost purple it's REALLY dark red. And overall they're a pretty tasty grape. My mom said they're concord so I just went with that.

So with a good 3 or 4 gallons of puree slushie (plus a gallon of elderberry juice) should I dilute this with water and sugar? it's right at 5.5 gallons of slush now and it's pretty thick I could only imagine my SG reading right now would be ridiculous with all the solids in there. Edit: Oh and...

Old Rasputin, they had it on sale for $7.99 a 4 pack at the beer store earlier, I bought 3 of them.

So paint strainer that fits in a 5 gal bucket, pure puree in there, and ferment in that for a few days, then squeeze the goodies out? (cliff notes version)

Did I screw up?

So my mom dumped about 5 gallons of (edit: concord) grapes on my door this weekend to make wine with. So I destemmed and washed them and then used my hand mixer to puree those babies. Now I have what amounts to a sludge, do I need to add more water? Lots of water? Sugar? I also had about a...

Virtual caps here! Glasses I sent off for started arriving last week.

Oh glasses are here! I got mine, mom got hers, mother in law, and brother in law report glass arrival!

If there are SO MANY people who want to gamble that it requires a bingo hall on every corner (a bingo hall with employees, generating taxable revenue mind you) then so be it. I don't complain that there's nearly a church on every corner, though churches are tax free but whatever, there's enough...

Nope no glass yet :(

Yesterday, 10:12 PM Today 12:14 AM 2 hours and 2 minutes is how long :D

I've been using mine for the rat colony I keep in the basement, they love a nice toasty spent grain cake made with some flour and whatever else I have lying around. The last one involved some breakfast stout specialty grains, some leftover eggdrop soup, and some leftover chicken noodle soup (in...

Good info, being a pretty dirty liberal at heart, I mostly vote Dem anyway. If they'd just leave our damned guns alone, I'd probably even register as a party member but the bastards just won't quit trying to screw with my right to own cool guns.

Good point, I don't recall seeing any beers in Germany darker than a Bock really.

True, to most of the BMC drinkers I know, any beer you can't read the newspaper through is "dark". I prefer beers so dark you couldn't even hold one up and watch an eclipse thru it :D

I recently took up baking bread. I miss the good breads from Germany and I can't get them around here, well, I can get some of them, for $7 a freaking LOAF. I have my laugenweck and my bauernbrot down to a pretty good imitation of the real thing. I make a mean tortilla (not German but I...

Don't blueball us on this, report back with the final results!