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Well this is bottled and came out decent. It's a little tart but better then some wines I've bought. Nice legs too.

I need to dust off my equipment and start brewing again. This style mash tun works great.

Just smoked some beans, a big fatty and a big old bird. The fatty is gone and I'm eating turkey sandwiches for lunch.

Just got back home and checked the gravity, 0.990. I racked it to the carboy and put a dark bag over it. Time to let it sit for 3 to 6 months. I little tart and warming.

I have to leave town for 5 or 6 days. After reading more about concord grapes and the foxy flavor I decided to separate the wine from the skins and seeds. I transfered it into another plastic fermenting bucket. I measured the SG before topping up with water. It is sitting at 1.050, so about 12%...

Just picked 70 lbs of pears today. Canned 10 quarts in light syrup and planning on making sauce tomorrow. I think I may get some more and give pear wine a chance.

I may have to give one of these frozen juice wines a try. Have to see what is available next time I go to the store. Any benefit to adding frozen fruit to the concentrate?

These are my last 3 smokes. The chicken in the first picture was so moist. Cooked over lemonade after a simple brine and smoked with cherry. That fatty had Chipotle Peppers, bacon, onions and cheese in the center.

Dave, how did your wine come out? By now you might have had a few bottles?

At first I was adding the sugar about a pound at a time. Towards the end I just added about 3 or 4 lbs. I do plan on topping off with water after separating from the skins and going to the carboy. I usually brew beer and have made mead. This is new and hopefully it works out. It was not...

Who has made wine from concord grapes? What was it like? This year our concord grapes really did well. My wife made concentrate grape juice and jelly. She was getting tired and we did not want to waste the grapes. So I read a little about people using them and if it sits on the skins the net...

Since the equipment is still out I'm brewing a barley wine now. I added a pound of smoked malt to it. Wondering if I will notice it. Cleaning up I found one lost bottle of a trappist. So I'm about to open this last one up.

Just made a pwm circuit for a ssr I had. So I was able to make a 5 gallon batch in the house. I like the way this worked out. I just brewed a honey ale. I used honey malt rather then honey I hope the taste comes thru.

I need to update this. I have not used the rims yet but I'm boiling my first batch in over a year with an electric element in a keg. Using pulse width modulation and a ssr to control the 220 volts to the element.

If any one is going to try pwm with a 555 timer this circuit works fairly well. All of the other ones I found on the net did not control my ssr. This circuit works and goes almost fully on according to my amp and volt meter on the output of the ssr, measuring at the element. Thanks to the...

Yep I have thought about buying a couple extract kits to have something going in the fermenter and end up in the fridge. I still have over 50th of malt and a bunch of hops that need used up. I'm considering doing some 3 gal batches so I can boil down on the stove. Or making a 5 gal batch in two...

Macallan 15 is a nice bottle to drink. I can't normally afford that. I have been drinking a fair amount of the small batch liquors made by some of the Iowa distilleries. The bourbons and ryes aged in Oak are always nice. I like a bottle of 6th glass occasionally too.

I am sitting here watching moonshine r's drinking one of the last two homebrews I have. It has been over a year since I made a beer. This one is a porter. This has been the best beer I have brewed. Used chocolate and coffee malt in this one. I had just switched to all grain and made three...

A stir plate and aeration kit for the wort. Played with the stir plate with a one and two inch stir bar in a one gallon carboy. Can't wait to put them to use for the barley wine I'm doing next.

I would say 7 days in the primary is to short. Some of my beers have been in the primary longer then a month.