( Updates on batches, cut for the benefit of the sober )

A lazy night at home waiting for the new Who to download...

I tasted my home batches back in early February, then gasped in horror as I opened the brew closet in March to see dried out airlocks. Here we go...

( Batch Sampling... )

Well, shite ( Read more... )

Time to rack the catawba wine. Some observations ( Read more... )

I'm just following instructions, but brewing wine isn't anything like brewing beer or mead ( Read more... )

A bucket of catawba grape must in the first stages of fermentation smells like a combination of new shower curtain and fart gas.

That is all.

I promise I'll post something not related to alcohol soon...

I never had much interest in wine-making, but the birds decided to spare my step-dad's grape vines this year, and he wanted some of it to go to wine.

( The Details )