Tag Archives: home wine

REROLLED.BOIL

Posted on August 18, 2010 by waywardwine

Daybreak and I find fermentation following forward. With nighttime temperatures under fifty (in August?), the humidifier has kept the tank a happy seventy two. However, I need to ensure the yeasts ferment completely. Once the bubbling (and my coffee) are … Continue reading →

Posted in BLUEBERRY BOUND: CRAFTING MY SECOND WINE (AUGUST 2010) | Tagged alcohol, blueberry, blueberry wine, cane sugar, CO2, extraction, fermentation, home wine, proof, racking, secondary fermentation, specific gravity, wine, winemaking, yeast | 2 Comments

RUSHING.REVENGE

Posted on August 16, 2010 by waywardwine

Our old apartment returns to wine friendly temperatures (middle seventies Fahrenheit). So I pack the kids into the back seat, and we carefully crawl over speed bumps home. I only yell at them once for splashing each other. Once they … Continue reading →

Posted in BLUEBERRY BOUND: CRAFTING MY SECOND WINE (AUGUST 2010) | Tagged billy mays, blueberry, blueberry wine, davis, fermentation, home wine, hydrometer, montrachet, road trip, saccharomyces cerevisiae, uc davis, yeast | 2 Comments

PHEONIX.DEFROSTING

Posted on August 9, 2010 by waywardwine

Days of distraction divide me from my blueberry defrosting.Wine equipment languishes like a cross-dressed Achilles, forced into hiding by his mother. Wigged in lint, powdered in dust, for too long it endures aimless domesticity. Thus, as a feigned Odysseus, I … Continue reading →

Posted in BLUEBERRY BOUND: CRAFTING MY SECOND WINE (AUGUST 2010) | Tagged achilles, billy mays, blueberry, blueberry wine, cross-dressing, defrost, home wine, odysseus, oxyclean, troy, wine | Leave a comment

BLUISH.BARTERING

Posted on August 5, 2010 by waywardwine

Five months after bottling my Barbarescanadianwelches “wine”, the itch has returned. Against all odds, the remaining 20 bottles have avoided ruin, re-fermentation, or apartment explosion. They even taste a bit better with the bottle shock faded. Yet, with poor acidity … Continue reading →

Posted in BLUEBERRY BOUND: CRAFTING MY SECOND WINE (AUGUST 2010) | Tagged Aeneas, Berry, blueberry, blueberry wine, Chandler, crush, Dido, fermentation, fruit, Grape, grapes, home wine, Nelson, Spartan, wine, wine tasting, winemaking | 1 Comment

MID.LIFE.CRISIS

Posted on April 23, 2010 by waywardwine

Free. We journey south, purging our palates of Stoutridge with water, on route to Benmarl Winery. A sign guides us past suburbia and onto a gravel road. Knotted, older vines twist along a slope to the left. Unassuming barn buildings … Continue reading →