Jack Keller Passed away Most visited wine making site by record web site available, and working

[Francis Eric]

I hope everyone can take a break from all of this, and have a nice day without any distractions


https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/jack-keller-jr-obituary?pid=196802950
https://www.legacy.com/funeral-home...ary?pid=196802950&v=batesville&view=guestbook

https://www.facebook.com/JackKellerWinemaking

Hello I just learned this on another forum last night
I will write some of what I wrote on there here


I talked with him On Wine press US (forum)
He was very smart, He had common sense and was helpful
like a lot of Smart people sometimes they do not have common sense

He did answer questions completely most people were being helpful,
but may have missed fine points being asked he was thorough.




I have sites to bring back old sites I do not know right now

I did find this online
web archive way way back machine
Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
this was the calendar of 2001 so some recipes may not be listed
looked at later dates (2012 as well but this seems to have some good home page information
if anyone is trying to look into or lost Jack Kellers site I also search online, and hit cach

I hope this helps, and is not disrespectful I think jack Would want people to see what his site was about I liked how He gave brief discriptions of the fruit’s history (in some recipes)
I really like his stuff about grapes as well Native ones

The Winemaking Home Page


2012 requested recipes (some missing)

winemaking: requested recipes (Maraschino-Chocolate Sweet Mead)





Jack kellers Wine Blog
you can really Get a sense of the type of person He was on his Blog
Jack Keller's WineBlog

 

[Francis Eric]

I wrote more about finding information on his sites, and
will edit in not to over whelm this thread

IF looking up his recipes have been a hassle I posted here

I hope this helps anyone
I have spent a lot of time looking up recipes on google bing
with no help

This has helped me save time so I want to pass it on
I just figured it out I hope his recipes can be passed on still,
and people do not have to deal with the frustrations


https://growingfruit.org/t/jack-keller-passed-away-the-most-popular-winemaking-site/31615

I have a opened bottle of persimmon wine, I hope to drink after I wake up tomorrow
I should visit some wild tree’s in his memory on a bicycle
I did make Stag horn Sumac wine, and Carrot wine
(called carrot whiskey smelled so good of flowers so potent smelling
aged still tasted like whiskey hot flavor ) and others like Rhubarb, Blueberry, and Strawberry and a few others.

I found it helpful about his teaching of how much sugar to add to change the Musts (juice) measurement without guessing on his blog helped with reading his problems saving a batch, in dire need with mold growing , and I already knew what to do because of his site didn’t have to rely on people from a forum (mycoderma or flowers of wine add sulfites ect. happened more then once), also helped when I had Hydrogen sulfide or rotton egg smell to know to add cooper to my wine (I added oops pennies) but it did clear up the smell just not safe to drink b/c of other metals at least I know cooper worked
as well as other problems I had easily found on his problems section of his site …

I will add a good thing about measuring sugar
Good to not have to guess so all this stuff saved me time, and head ache
My rhubarb with the mold turned out great , and the other times it was just routine.

Starting out I really like to see a thorough site not having to browse everywhere
I also never used the internet until 22 so the site very much helped me get started
(Ec kraus supplies was good as well for basic stuff)

If in a gallon of water you add sugar total a pound (2 cups of sugar are a pound)
** will be a specific gravity of 1.045 %6 alcohol **

**2 pounds are 1.090 SG 12% **
(in a gallon total of water , and sugar)

**Making wine, and guessing to add sugar can be a problem **
doing simple math like this can help

(edit weighing a bucket can tell how much liquid is in it (8 Lbs. a gallon of water)
you factor in fruit as well you added)

So why this is so good
So imagine your only doing a gallon of strawberry, and you have a Specific gravity of 1.045 (6% ABV)
usually it is about around there just adding fruits, and following some recipes
you now know adding 2 cups of sugar will be 1.090 (or 12% alcohol By volume ) added to your already 1.045 sugar measurement.
and no guessing blindly adding sugar as you go.

 

[Francis Eric]

Drinking a Persimmon wine aged a year not the best time because of work , but
Thanks to Him for the tools to solve my problems I dealt with along the way

Will plan to ride, my bike, and listen to some classic rock, and some country
Visit some tree's , and have a nice day out.

 

[Francis Eric]

May not be easy to post this on all these sites

https://growingfruit.org/t/jack-keller-passed-away-the-most-popular-winemaking-site/31615/13
I hope everyone that he Has helped can have the Enjoyment of looking at his site again
I have known it to not work

I explained how you can remove one word on the archive site way back machine
(like replace pawpaw with something else like agarita
net/pawpaw.asp (replace pawpaw with a fruit you might want to make for faster results)

I even have looked at the other pages on his site, and have been entertained Like the
OTHER PAGES OF INTEREST
on his site
phone spell from Jack Keller’s

So He is still bringing me s,miles
Talked with him On winepree US
He had common sense A lot of smart people do not which is Okay
people were being helpful, but He was one of a kind Individually
Very thorough, and a rarity, and intelligence with his good advice .

Vanity Phone Number Resources

https://web.archive.org/web/20010408003218/http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/other.asp

 

[Francis Eric]

Edit Having a persimmon wine for him Today
Some IPA Beer, and A nice Bike ride to visit some tree's
Going to Listen to some Bocephus (hank Williams Jr.) and some classic rock
towards the end of His Life I could see Him mention a lot more about Music on His Blog.

 

[LifeAfterDeath]

I found this.

 

[cottonwoodks]

I found this.

Wow, thanks for this link. It looks like one could spend a lifetime making wines, and never make it through all these recipes. I'm up to number three, myself.....

 

[Francis Eric]

Yes Thank you I searched but old link was broken
maybe I will reply on the old post I found
(short on time now to write it up how I'd like
Got to give a lot of respect to Jack Keller when I do!)

Edit thank you very much
Saved me a ton of time
Didn't add that I have been spending tons of time looking through that archive site
I posted looking for recipes your attachment means a lot to me.

Plan to buy His book on wine soon as well.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

I took a double-take at the Mincemeat Wine on page 16. In South Africa, mincemeat is what we call ground meat or hamburger. Especially with the opening line of Jack's response.

Próst

 

[Francis Eric]

I took a double-take at the Mincemeat Wine on page 16. In South Africa, mincemeat is what we call ground meat or hamburger. Especially with the opening line of Jack's response.

Próst

Yes I did as well, but remember it been a while though so I forgot
I know the Chinese make fish wine

A lady had Onion wine said it was good actually
if some o these were with meat or bad
I wouldn't mind trying a cooking wine full of flavor like that.

Think a savory Fermented Mushroom wine .
(he mentioned something about that on the site long ago, but not sure if he had a recipe)
ALSO talked about some types of Nuts to make wine having to much fat that went rancid
so you never know what is out there lost online.

Remember I wasn't sure but some recipes could still be on the site link I posted
I quickly checked I didn't see Broom wine (not unde requested recipes)
just under recipes -- (I had some of these copied on paper )


winemaking: winemaking recipes

(from His site )

An Apology
Some time ago, my alphabetical listing of recipes was divided between two servers--some were on Geocities' server but most were on my former ISP's server. A fire destroyed my ISP's servers and I lost 720 recipes and 14 web pages on growing grapes. Organizing and typing that information had been a monumental job, and I simply did not have the time to do it again. Instead, I began posting recipes requested by email. You can find these in my "requested recipes" section. Additional recipe listings are at the bottom of the previous page.

I apologize that I have never recreated the missing pages, but I simply haven't got an extra 3-4 months to dedicate to that task.

Jack Keller, Pleasanton, Texas

 

[Francis Eric]

You should read the part on his Blog about having double vision
the way He put it. (just hit ctrl and f type in double or vison )
Even going through problems had some Humor added well worded in a subtle way.

 

[Matthew Prescott]

Hi do you still have the recipe for this... If possible could you upload... This was one of my 1st ever Jack Keller recipes along with the carrot whiskey some 10 years ago and I still have a bottle of the mincemeat wine in the wine fridge. I think i will open this at Christmas as it was always like a sherry more than a wine.
Only found out Jack had passed today as I wanted to try the carrot whiskey recipe again... Such a shame...

 

[Francis Eric]

MINCEMEAT WINE "Jack, do you have a receipt for making wine with mincemeat. Cindy Bordivsky, Chicago, IL MINCEMEAT This goes down as one of the stranger requests I've had, but believe it or not, I have one. It wasn't my recipe originally, but is one I found on an old site (now gone) that I've adapted to present a more balanced wine. Traditionally, mincemeat (also spelled mince meat and minced meat) is a mixture, of finely chopped apples, raisins, currants, dates, meat (lean beef, venison, pork, and/or suet), spices (cinnamon, mace, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, orange zest, lemon zest, salt pepper), sometimes nuts (pecans, hickory meats, walnuts), brown sugar, and rum or brandy, that is used as a pie filling, in cakes, bars, cookies, etc. You can buy canned mincemeat around Thanksgiving and Christmas at most supermarkets, but the canned stuff I've looked at doesn't contain animal meat; perhaps some do. There are other ingredients added to family and ethnic recipes (I've seen dozens of recipes for mincemeat, and they variously called for almond slivers, oranges, lemons, green tomatoes, grated carrots, pears, ginger, candied fruit, dried or fresh cherries, dried or fresh cranberries, pineapple, crabapples, jelly or marmalade, molasses, cider, orange juice, lemon juice, coffee, vinegar, honey, butter, and even rhubarb). I'm certain there are other ingredients, but if it is called mincemeat, you can make wine with it. Mincemeat Wine • 2 lbs. mincemeat • 1 lb. 11 oz. granulated sugar • 1 can Welch's 100% White Grape Juice frozen concentrate • 1 lemon (zest and juice) • 1 orange (zest and juice) • 2 tsp. pectic enzyme • 1/4 tsp. grape tannin • 6-1/2 pts. warm water • 1 tsp. yeast nutrient • 1 pkt general purpose wine yeast Put all ingredients except yeast in primary. You can put the mincemeat in a nylon straining bag to make removal easier. Cover primary and set aside 12 hours. Stir well and add activated yeast starter. Cover with sanitized cloth and set aside in warm place to ferment. When vigorous fermentation slows (7-10 days), check specific gravity. If at or under 1.010, transfer to secondary and fix airlock. If wine does not clear in 60 days, add additional teaspoon pectic enzyme while racking wine. If clear, simply rack. Reattach airlock and wait additional 30 days or until clear. Rack, add one crushed and dissolved Campden tablet and 1/2 tsp. dissolved potassium sorbate. Wait 10 days, sweeten to taste and set aside an additional 30 days. Rack into bottles and age 1 year. [Author's own recipe.] My thanks to Cindy Bordivsky of Chicago for requesting this recipe. 17 HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY WIN








May have to look at my archive link above but here
not sure if Carrot is on the FILE someone else posted (thank you for that)

I know Mincemeat is though
I know you cannot copy/paste off his Blog (at least I can not yet )

Carrot wine
https://web.archive.org/web/20120419142554/http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques27.asp(the file is good but just in case --b/c some people do not trust files here are some as well)
JANUARY 07 2018
https://web.archive.org/web/20180107135932/http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request.asp
Also see the timeline thing on top of page that looks like a graph
you can scroll on that as well .

I am alittle busy to re check that file, but here are some as well
I may explain better later if you have any questions (a little busy)
---
All the way down the page are sections
(remember those like)
basic steps
wine making problems
Grapes of North America

See Wine recipes some I saw were not listed in the FILE
Like what I mentioned above (broom wine) (etc. in section) ----
(you may have to re fresh certain pages, and re search web archives )
or get used to using the site (web Archive -- web site better )
I am glad I found this Archive site myself
After I saw Jack Keller Passed It motivated me to look to find his site
--- even though I have been trying for the longest for hours before already
after I saw that he passed It took me a few minutes (I never used web archives)
but The Public's Library and Digital Archive I tried
) , and was searching tools I lost saved on to my computer before)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120416030600/http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/recipes.asp
Yes My first Wine was going to be a strange one as well
I was going to ferment Oak leaves (recipe off his site from CJJ Berry wine making book)
I fermented wild grapes with concord Instead

I like that if you look He made you think out side the box with the rewards He won.

 

[Francis Eric]

easier to read off file, but I may edit this post above later for you
with spaces between the ingr. ...

 

[Matthew Prescott]

Thank you so much for the recipes will have a good look at that tomorrow. Oak leaf wine maybe have to give that a try in spring I did try a vine prunings one this year from c j berry it tasted like homebrew no real flavour that would make me make it again but will see what a little ageing does to it.

 

[mashpaddled]

I never interacted with him but I heard nothing but nice things from those who did. I have read through a lot of his site which is full of practical concepts around winemaking. In a lot of ways I always felt like he was the Papazian of winemaking inspiring people to make a perfectly enjoyable beverage without too much fuss.

 

[Phish_on2k]

Hi all...I was truly bummed about the passing of Jack Keller...did not know him..
But found his website and knowledge kept me trying to perfect my recipes...for that I thank him! Didn't see it mentioned on this thread...but he was going to release a book of all his recipes...release date kept getting pushed out..Amazon states it will release in April 2021

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAQegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw0VUgGy2KUBub-QhDaSf3IP[/URL]

None of my business but instead of passing around (what seems to be free) copies of his recipes...why not support his(what I hope) to be his surviving family/legacy and buy his book...im gonna do it! That being said...you do you...im not the internet police!

 

[murlocking]

May not be easy to post this on all these sites

https://growingfruit.org/t/jack-keller-passed-away-the-most-popular-winemaking-site/31615/13
I hope everyone that he Has helped can have the Enjoyment of looking at his site again
I have known it to not work

I explained how you can remove one word on the archive site way back machine
(like replace pawpaw with something else like agarita
net/pawpaw.asp (replace pawpaw with a fruit you might want to make for faster results)

I even have looked at the other pages on his site, and have been entertained Like the
OTHER PAGES OF INTEREST
on his site
phone spell from Jack Keller’s

So He is still bringing me s,miles
Talked with him On winepree US
He had common sense A lot of smart people do not which is Okay
people were being helpful, but He was one of a kind Individually
Very thorough, and a rarity, and intelligence with his good advice .

Vanity Phone Number Resources

https://web.archive.org/web/20010408003218/http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/other.asp

Hello,
I just tested your tricks to replace a "fruit" name in the address on the archive site, but only the 2 fruits you named "Agarita" and "PawPaw" seems to work.
Do you know any other keywords that would work that way? I tried simple one like "Banana" or "Apple" (singular and plurial) and got no results.