mustistuff
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too windy to hunt, bottled some wine instead, shoulda been here
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mustistuff
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just like dog information which is many times wrong, so, here is another one. first this is plumb off my tree, hail ruined most of the crop before i could get in the bottle. as far as your kit wine, i would tend to think it no good. while i'm not there, here is a couple of things. first off, if the wine is no good, it still won't hurt you, you just won't be able to drink it. it should have been racked several times, it should have had metabisulfite added to it several times, kept at less than room temp and out of the light and with an air tight air lock or cap, most kit wines are made to bottle rather quickly and then start drinking them at about a year. they are not formulated usually to keep long term. in as much as i don't know anything what you been doing, the above are common mistakes. if it were me, get up your nerve and remove a glass of the stuff. that will tell you what ya got, then the bottle should and should have been topped up, if you like it, top it off with a similar type of wine and then keep doing what has been working for you. keep me in touch. i make about 50 gal. of something per year. mostly fruit wine, the hail ruined all my grapes this year, totally. kinda bored today, windy and put off my kansas trip with the pastor till tue. going to be warm but much less wind. i would have put a setter on the label but try and get one to stand still long enough for a pic
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Toad
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I agree, nice labels. If I saw birddog or pheasant wine on the store shelf, I would give it a try.
I used to make around 10 gallons a year of fruit wine. Something always gets my grapevines for the last 5 years though. I'm always fighting the leaf-rollers, a late freeze, summer heat/drought, an ill-timed downpour, fungus, birds, insects... I used to have really nice raspberry bushes too until they died two summers ago in the drought and didn't come back.
I'm going to have to try again with the raspberries. That wine was good to cook with AND to drink.:thumbsup: The only trouble was beating the birds to the harvest. :laugh:
It would be nice to get some fruit trees established here at the house also, if we ever find the time.
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I used to make around 10 gallons a year of fruit wine. Something always gets my grapevines for the last 5 years though. I'm always fighting the leaf-rollers, a late freeze, summer heat/drought, an ill-timed downpour, fungus, birds, insects... I used to have really nice raspberry bushes too until they died two summers ago in the drought and didn't come back.
I'm going to have to try again with the raspberries. That wine was good to cook with AND to drink.:thumbsup: The only trouble was beating the birds to the harvest. :laugh:
It would be nice to get some fruit trees established here at the house also, if we ever find the time.
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mustistuff
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i have a large rasp. and black raspberry patch, they produce but are not prolific. neither berries like extended heat over 85 deg. my wine grapes do well here in the greeley area and are trouble free but the hail nailed them this year. birds are a major problem in my strawberries but don't much bother the grapes or the rasp. and they loved my cherry tree. mostly the damn robins. i find that without the grapes, plum, like stanley, come the closest to a decent red wine. as i can't hunt all the time, just gotta have something else to do and been doing it for about 20 years, been doing the dogs longer, need both to live.
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Toad
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I would like to plant peaches, apples, and pears. Or maybe apricots instead of peaches. I've made peach wine a couple times and it's delicious.
Musti, have you ever made ice wine? If we ever end up planting the apple trees, I will definitely try it someday.
Have you ever made any wine from wild grapes? I've got a ton of them at the farm and in the woods around the house. I'm guessing they would need a lot of added sugar, but I've never tried crushing any to see what the juice is like. Well, I know it's REALLY purple...
I also have a lot of mulberry at the farm that I've thought about trying. And a little bit of plum, but not a lot... Someday...
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Musti, have you ever made ice wine? If we ever end up planting the apple trees, I will definitely try it someday.
Have you ever made any wine from wild grapes? I've got a ton of them at the farm and in the woods around the house. I'm guessing they would need a lot of added sugar, but I've never tried crushing any to see what the juice is like. Well, I know it's REALLY purple...
I also have a lot of mulberry at the farm that I've thought about trying. And a little bit of plum, but not a lot... Someday...
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mustistuff
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I would like to plant peaches, apples, and pears. Or maybe apricots instead of peaches. I've made peach wine a couple times and it's delicious.
Musti, have you ever made ice wine? If we ever end up planting the apple trees, I will definitely try it someday.
Have you ever made any wine from wild grapes? I've got a ton of them at the farm and in the woods around the house. I'm guessing they would need a lot of added sugar, but I've never tried crushing any to see what the juice is like. Well, I know it's REALLY purple...
I also have a lot of mulberry at the farm that I've thought about trying. And a little bit of plum, but not a lot... Someday...
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you make me jealous. it is rare that i have been near mulberry's. if i am, the squirrels or the birds get there first. out of all the fruit i have used, mulberries are by far the best. hands down. the stain you get from them is about forever. the old trappers used the juice to blacken their traps, that's how good the stuff is. not sure about the ice wine, usually applies to late season grapes i thought. i have made one batch of wild grape, usually some form of concord actually, at least in the east. you would need suger, enough to get a brix of 26 or a hydrometer reading of the standard 1.095. be sure to kill the wild yeast that is on the grapes as there is sure to be a lot of it and then add your own. i made one batch this year of yellow plum,(superior) good stuff. i also made a batch of peach and one of apricot. prefer the apricot but here the frost gets them every year but not the peach. an interesting batch that i made, to die for, was cranberry nectarine, wow! my batches are mostly either 5 or 3 gal. as that is what my bottle sizes are. the taste that you are likely to get from your grapes will be like, concord, morgan david etc. worth a try but just ok. i am growing mostly a foch and millot as they are the closest i can come out here to a cab. style. to bad you are so far away, we could drink a toast to a day's hunt with a sip or two. pm your address and one of these days the ups will get there with a sample. post thought: if you can get good chokecherries, they are wonderful, give off a nice nutty flavor or elderberry is tops also, we don't have the latter here and the chokecherries usually start to dry out cause of our wind and heat
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