The weather is changing, the days are getting shorter, and the smell of wine fermenting the 2024 vintage is wafting through the air. I wanted to take a moment to savor this time of year and share a campaign named Come Over October, started by Karen MacNeil and PR professionals Gino ...
If the cork looks compromised or has an odour (more on this in a minute) then I’m going to sit up and start paying attention to the process at hand: trying the wine to see if it’s a) what I ordered and b) in good condition. The author goes on to pontificate why the consumer...
“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know...
“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know...
It can be used to make bread, beer, and wine. It can be nurtured from the active ‘starter’ you received from a friend, or you can cultivate your own natural yeast at home – all you need is flour and water and time. You don’t actually ‘create’ it since wild yeast is ...
resulting in shorter wait times. I’ll let you know how that works out for us. And, by the way, this year Sheila is attending the PTY madness with us at Russian River (last year she went wine tasting while I was beer tasting). She will be the sole female in our group that day,...
and I almost forgot I put a Demijohn of wine on, made from fruit juice, grape juice and brewing sugar.. Home Brew MAX3082CPA+ and an Uppdate to BrewBlox April 3, 2020Richard Page With everyone in lockdown I started to look at brewing again and looked at the Brewblox software/ firmwa...
Descending from the tower, we stopped briefly at a wine store to pick up a bottle or two for the hotel room for the next few nights (I’ve begun to call this non-expensive-minibar-stash my “blog fuel”). We also grabbed a fresh baguette from a supermarket nearby. Checking Google Ma...
It says priming tank but has been put into service as a fermenter due to leaks in my original fermenting bucket. I think it is bed time now. TTFN Bishop Leave a comment Yesterday was a busy day in the kitchen. I had planned on making a batch of both strawberry and blueberry jams. ...
Here in Sonoma County, surrounded by hundreds of wineries, barrels are everywhere. The Beverage People has been supplying new and recoopered barrels for use in home winemaking for a long time, and used wine barrels can sometimes be obtained through a winery connection. The most common size ...