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Well, the yeast they sent in that wine kit certainly seems to be working! That was also a pretty hefty dose they were calling for, which probably helped it take off hard.
The airlock had actually started bubbling within an hour or so, and this is how it's going roughly 24 hours later.
Getting ready to go ahead and bottle that kit Piesporter that I made a while back.
Was reminded when I was just bottling up another small batch of one of the fruity cider experiments, and still had everything out. This has been bulk aging in that carboy for like 3.5 months now, so may as well go ahead and get it into bottles while I'm set up for it and have the energy.
We're reusing actual wine bottles here. I am indeed the weirdo who hoards every wine bottle that comes into the house. Getting ready to sanitize the smaller ones up on the counter. I actually really like the 500ml bottles that Systembolaget sells. You can try different things more cheaply, without committing to a full-sized bottle. Plus, that's a more reasonable amount for one or two people to polish off at a time, without leaving part of an open bottle of wine sitting around to oxidize.
Also have a few regular bottles sitting with sanitizer solution in them now. Which can then go in the other empties. Hey, I only mixed up a 2L bottle full of Saniclean. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Takes longer this way, but it works fine.
And yes, I use the dishwasher door as a bottling surface too. Drips really don't matter. Beats the hell out of dragging everything into the bathroom, like my partner has been doing with his big bucketloads of mead. (Yeah, thankfully he is clean with it. I have watched. 😬)
The tinted bottles are going to be a bigger PITA to fill without making a mess, because it's harder to see exactly where the liquid level is. They're also going straight in a closet, so no real benefit to the light blocking. But, that's the glass bottles we have.
Reusing the screw caps is not usually recommended by Wine People, btw. They supposedly don't seal as completely airtight. But, I'm more inclined to hang around r/prisonhooch for the creative stuff, this is indeed a kit Riesling, and I seriously doubt that any of it will stay in the bottles for more than a year or so anyway.
Letter From The Mosel
Letter From The Mosel
Tony Lee and Renna Benson are walking from Rotterdam to Assmannshausen. This is how it went
“The young man showed us the plastic bucket filled with bunches of freshly picked grapes. “Bitte” he said, along with some German I couldn’t understand! He wants you to taste them explained a Swedish couple nearby. We dipped into the bucket and tasted the small green grapes, they were sweet, tasty…
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The Party Source's Wine of the Day
A treat for all of you snowbirds today on this #TeutonicWineTuesday… Reushcer Haart Piesporter…
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Ep 005:Deinhard Riesling Review On Location at Raleigh Media Leaders
A "guerilla"style review (shot on my Blackberry) of one of the best summer whites I've had in a long time - Deinhard Piesporter Riesling at this month's Raleigh Media Leaders meetup. Location is Isaac Hunter's Oak City Tavern in downtown Raleigh. Many thanks to the incomparable Gregory Ng of Freezer Burns for being my "camera man" on the fly.
