I suck at gardening. » Booze http://www.isuckatgardening.com Inflicting pain and suffering one plant at a time. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:38:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Homebrew wine. http://www.isuckatgardening.com/2010/01/28/homebrew-wine/ http://www.isuckatgardening.com/2010/01/28/homebrew-wine/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:34:03 +0000 Corwin http://www.isuckatgardening.com/?p=248 I’ve made wine, beer, mead, and a form of apple cider for many years now. I managed to snooker my sister into trying her hand at wine too. Beer is very labor intensive. It requires sometimes hours of preparation, boiling, chilling, pitching, racking, etc etc. Wine and cider are crazy simple, especially when you can just buy the grape juice or apple juice and mix it all together. The only real work is making sure everything is crazy clean. I’ve been doing this for many years and have managed to keep things clean enough I’ve never had a batch infection. Tonight I transfered a batch of chardonnay from the primary fermenter to a secondary. Here are a few pictures of my mad scientist lab. [click to embiggen]

Got Carboys?

Got Carboys?
Trappist Quad

Trappist Quad
Sanitizing

Sanitizing
Racking

Racking
Don't Fear the Suds

Don't Fear the Suds
Remnants

Remnants
Yum, wine.

Yum, wine.
Racking

Racking
Secondary

Secondary
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