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Kicking myself for not picking up some green candy canes... something about a green wine just seems so damned cool :)
 
Roasted just pick up some green Star mints by Brach's.....they sell them here all year long. They are a spearmint type of hard candy and use the same weight as you would candy canes!
 
Just started this one today using 75 candy canes and 5 lbs sugar OG 1.080 if this one goes well I am going to do one with sour apple candy too.
 
Woo hoo! People are tossing out their candy canes and I've been nabbing them up to make this. Any one have any idea why it has to be boiled for so long?
 
So i just bottled this up this week and had it bulk aging for almost a year. So the color fermented down to a pale yellow so a drop of red food coloring brought back that nice pink color, not sure if the alcohol with fade the food coloring out or not but planning on giving these out as christmas gifts this year so they will not last that long anyway. It actually is pretty good stuff, reminds me a lot of Dr McGillicutty's but with a much more wine like taste. I will be making more of this again this year!!!
 
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