Who's vinting?

[RadSav]

I had a cherry wine finish at 21% once with no fortification, yowza, that's my "happy wife" wine.   

Might need to test that on the Angry Squaw.  Always wondered what it would be like to be married to a happy wife

[Kc_Kracker]

no problem loki ill save ya one  the wife named our stuff finally, since we have boxers she named it boxer drool  now i need to make some labels somehow

[lokidog]

Lots of good labels available for printers.  Back in the day, I made a master sheet, by hand for four labels that I could just fill in date, % alcohol and type of wine.

KC, I just went to look for one of my old labels and discovered two boxes of Pomegranate wine from 2008... forgot all about it.  I'd still love to try yours.     We'll have to have ours with backstrap tonight for dinner.  I'll try to find one of my old labels, they were pretty cool.

[Kc_Kracker]

NIIIICE  ya we have a few wine makers wanting to have a get together and sample night, sounds like a nice summer day BBQ to me

[NOCK NOCK]

no problem loki ill save ya one  the wife named our stuff finally, since we have boxers she named it boxer drool  now i need to make some labels somehow

Office supply stores should have an arched label made by avery. Thats what we use, easy to design, and they come off the bottle fairly easy when its time to re bottle. Look with all the other printer labels

[Kc_Kracker]

easy to remove, now THAT i like!

[NOCK NOCK]

Here is our latest label. Cheers

[NOCK NOCK]

Bottled a small batch of fresh banana wine today. 6 months of fermenting done, needs to age for a year now  (according to the recipe)
They were right, tastes like banana fire water right now (aprox. 20% ABV), but with time will become a mellow banana flavor. Who knew the ugly colored mash would come out so pretty

[lokidog]

That looks nice.  Are you willing to share the recipe, or your source for it if it is online?

[NOCK NOCK]

The recipe came from a web site I found by a Jack Keller.
 winemaking.jackkeller.net/
Tons of recipes, and info there.
I love anything banana so its killing me to have to wait so long to try it. 

[Kc_Kracker]

if its jack keller then its spot on 

[Kc_Kracker]

Bottled a small batch of fresh banana wine today. 6 months of fermenting done, needs to age for a year now  (according to the recipe)
They were right, tastes like banana fire water right now (aprox. 20% ABV), but with time will become a mellow banana flavor. Who knew the ugly colored mash would come out so pretty

that seems a tad off since everything ive read on whites says to drink within a year and never age over 6-12 months. 

[lokidog]

Bottled a small batch of fresh banana wine today. 6 months of fermenting done, needs to age for a year now  (according to the recipe)
They were right, tastes like banana fire water right now (aprox. 20% ABV), but with time will become a mellow banana flavor. Who knew the ugly colored mash would come out so pretty

that seems a tad off since everything ive read on whites says to drink within a year and never age over 6-12 months. 

Don't believe everything you read.  We just had a 2007 bottle of plum (not a white, but not real dark either) and a bottle of 2008 pomegranate last night at a neighbor's barbecue.  Both tasted the same, or maybe better, than when bottled.

[NOCK NOCK]

Our newest wines / labels 

[viva_che1363]

I'd like to join the party. First real attempt at wine making. ive got a 3 gallon batch of blackberry wine.  picked fresh fruit throughout the summer and froze until i had enough. just finished the 2 racking last week. so far so good, but i wish i had taken a S.G. reading at the beginning.