Well, Bob has been interested in winemaker more so than beer brewing, and he's the one that picks all of the fruit for our "country" wines.
Since I've had "the plague" this week, he said he'd make a couple of batches of wine just with my oversight. He did ok, but the whole cleaning/sanitizing thing seems to be beyond him.
He started a 5 gallon batch of the blackberry wine posted under my avatar, and he is thawing a 5 gallon bucket of sauvignon blanc grape juice.
Those blackberries were picked this past August, and they are wonderful! We had so much rain this year that they are huge and plump. I didn't take an OG reading (will wait until tomorrow, when he pitches the yeast) but I enouraged him to use less sugar than my recipe calls for because I bet they have more sugar in them this year.
I'm so glad that he's taking more of an interest in the winemaking. Now I wish I could get him excited about racking.
Since I've had "the plague" this week, he said he'd make a couple of batches of wine just with my oversight. He did ok, but the whole cleaning/sanitizing thing seems to be beyond him.
He started a 5 gallon batch of the blackberry wine posted under my avatar, and he is thawing a 5 gallon bucket of sauvignon blanc grape juice.
Those blackberries were picked this past August, and they are wonderful! We had so much rain this year that they are huge and plump. I didn't take an OG reading (will wait until tomorrow, when he pitches the yeast) but I enouraged him to use less sugar than my recipe calls for because I bet they have more sugar in them this year.
I'm so glad that he's taking more of an interest in the winemaking. Now I wish I could get him excited about racking.