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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Wine Making – Part Deux
Hi, Wine Lovers! Since we last posted we racked our wine. That is not to say that it went as smoothy as it could. Yours truly is not exactly a non-clutz, so there was some wine-thief spillage that sullied the table, … Continue reading
Posted in HomeMade, In the Yard, Of Interest, Wine
Tagged add sugar, alcohol content, homemade wine, secondary fermentation, wine making, wine thief can be messy
13 Comments
Wine Making 101 – Part 1
So I mentioned a couple posts ago that we obtained about a hundred pounds of Noble muscadine grapes. My dad made crap-tons of homemade wines. So did my grandfather…and my great-grandfather actually had a pretty cool winery in Sicily, which … Continue reading
Posted in HomeMade
Tagged acid blend, hydrometer confusion, pitching yeast for the newbie wine maker, wine making
6 Comments
The Down-Side to the Electronic Age
This isn’t going to be one of those happy-go-lucky posts I usually try to do. Yesterday I had an “ah-hah” moment, and not a good one. A friend of mine received a text message yesterday morning after breakfast break conveying … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Suckfest, The Day Job
Tagged information overkill, media saturation, think before you text, too much technology
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