I HAVE WINE.. My first attempt is a success

[pamela]

oh poo. well, tell me, how did it taste? was it watermelon tasting?
was it a sweet wine?
LOL

[kiwi]

I have just bottled my elderflower champagne, I used the "river cottage" recipe off of their website, so far everything is looking good and following the plan except the yeast I may have added a little too much (not heaps too much) anyway it is bottled and stored for two weeks, it said on the website that it is "mildly alcoholic" and on the tv show that it is about 4 % but mine is gonna "kick like a mule" still only 13 days till we pop the first bottle.

My next endeavour will be mead (I have signed up for a beekeeping course next year, along with a horticulture diploma course and I am just finishing my first aid course) and then dandelion wine. 

[jock]

Recently popped the first 5 gallon cider keg (boosted with 5lb of sugar) 

Hooitinanny incoherence goodbye braincells. There's cider, there's scrumpy and there's this stuff

[nobody]

Kinda hard to see, but from the bottom up, there's apple, persimmon, wild grape (known locally as 'possom grape'), and wild blackberry. I'm getting dangerously low on blackberry wine. It's always a fight come blackberry season, (a fight which I generally lose), who gets the berries, me for wine or her for jelly and blackberry syrup. Though I gotta admit its hard to beat home made ice-cream with home made blackberry syrup on top. 




The date on the camera was wrong, that was taken this summer.

[feelingweird]

THAT is a fine looking pantry. Especially love the jarred goods to the left of the picture and the big scale. Looks like you're a PRO...

I have very similar shelving in my basement and I want to store my wine on its side. HOW are you getting those bottled to stack and not roll off the shelf. Is there something holding them in place.?

Robert

Kinda hard to see, but from the bottom up, there's apple, persimmon, wild grape (known locally as 'possom grape'), and wild blackberry. I'm getting dangerously low on blackberry wine. It's always a fight come blackberry season, (a fight which I generally lose), who gets the berries, me for wine or her for jelly and blackberry syrup. Though I gotta admit its hard to beat home made ice-cream with home made blackberry syrup on top. 




The date on the camera was wrong, that was taken this summer.

[AreWeThereYet]

THAT is a fine looking pantry. Especially love the jarred goods to the left of the picture and the big scale. Looks like you're a PRO...

I have very similar shelving in my basement and I want to store my wine on its side. HOW are you getting those bottled to stack and not roll off the shelf. Is there something holding them in place.?

Robert

Crazy glue ?

[nobody]

THAT is a fine looking pantry. Especially love the jarred goods to the left of the picture and the big scale. Looks like you're a PRO...

I have very similar shelving in my basement and I want to store my wine on its side. HOW are you getting those bottled to stack and not roll off the shelf. Is there something holding them in place.?

Robert

That's actually a 168 bottle, 7 shelf chrome wine rack. 

[AreWeThereYet]

Now that you mentioned it..yes I do see the scoops rather than the flat shelf.

Those canisters of coffee threw us all off !