my grape wine is turning out fucking great. it's cloudy and still very much alive, but it's dry as hell and it's really boozy. i got pretty fuckin licked off it last night and i'm currently nursing a hangover that i'll be taking with me to work in a few hours. it's pictured here in the nice glass carboy a friend gave to me a while ago. it smells really sweet but like i said, it's nice and dry.
yes, our fridge has dinosaurs and hearts on it. eat a dick.
one thing i did with this batch, is about two weeks in, i boiled up some of the wine (about 1 cup) along with some yeast. i did this on a hunch after looking around for homemade yeast nutrient. when i added it (after letting it cool), the yeast went nuts and when i took the airlock off it sprayed black all over my face. while that sucked, the result was a pretty vigorous fermentation. yeast like to eat dead yeast.
so yeah, i'll let this bitch ferment until sunday the 15th, i'll rack it and then i'll bottle it. i might use some of the clarifier my friend gave me, as well. we'll see. maybe i'll split it up, half with clarifier and half without, to see the difference. my guess? ONE WILL BE CLEARER THAN THE OTHER. if anyone wants their fortunes told, just email me.
i've been doing a lot more reading on home brewing the last little while. i decided for now i'm going to stick with grape wine and sugar wine, going with consistent recipes and methods. i have some ideas for sugar wine recipes and home made yeast nutrient. i'll probably start a new batch on friday so i'll update on that this weekend.
uhm...aside from grape wine and sugar wine...i'm also working on another boozey project:
oooooh?? quest que cest le? I'M MAKING A FUCKIN STILL, BITCHES.
my friend and i will probably be finished making this on friday. it's a pretty basic pot still. for anyone interested in doing this, i highly recommend looking over homedistiller.org. there's a lot of great information there. pictured above is my secret booze closet. for some reason we have like 19 closets in this modestly-priced apartment, so my girlfriend gave my the top half of this one. it's pretty rad, i can put carboys in there and let them ferment and since i'm not looking at them i'm not tempted (as much) to drink and/or fuck around with them.
anyway the hobo grape wine is probably the best booze i've made so far.
anyway the hobo grape wine is probably the best booze i've made so far.
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Stills are illegal blah blah blah. Let me know if your grape juice wine actually ends up tasting anything like actual wine. I've got the diagrams for several different types of stills but I don't drink the hard shit so I have no real reason to try to make one besides just to do it. Beer gets me as fucked up as I need to be. Why get the law all pissed off at you?
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