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EJM3

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Now that I am out of honey for the next few months, until prices come down to something resembling reality anyway, as at $19 a quart it is about average right now, no gallons available from the fruit stands we have been to either (now totalling ~15 fruit stands to date, more to go, but not close to home), so it's time for alternatives until October or November. In that line of reasoning our neighbor is offering her grapes to us again, last year was ~100 Lbs of white seedless grapes from her vines, plus one of our sets of friends are offering me up to ~200 to ~300Lbs of white seedless grapes, and another set of friends are offering me ~50 Lbs of Concord grapes. Even without honey I should be able to come up with something resembling a drinkable fermented beverage from them. I will just have to beg some directions on how to do the best job of juice extraction, yeast selection, websites, and general pointers in grape fermentation...

Hrm, it would seem that ChevetteGirls' fermenting problem is contagious (ducks between CV's stilts, and runs (stilts and plate armor? Really:confused:)). And it seems I have a drinking problem too, I'm going to be stowing away most of this and not drinking it. :p
 
Sorry, didn't mean to infect you :) And I have that same drinking problem...

I've made concord grape wine before, I used 18 lb for a 3 gal batch, and sugar to get the OG up to something reasonable. The reading I'd done about it indicated that straight concord juice makes a pretty distinctive wine when fermented, which is why I decided to dilute it.

I think you'll get something close to a gallon of juice from 18-20 lb of grapes if you're going to press them. I'm not sure if the juicer you'd mentioned in another post is the right tool for the job, not for 400 lbs of grapes.

And yes, really...

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<sigh> Someone wanna tell me how I can get it to show the photo? I knew with the old forum software...

 
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EJM3, when life gives you grapes, make wine! Much better than lemon aid anyway! I would not mind being in you position as no one gives me grapes, lemons or honey, for that matter, but I charge on like I don't know any better (which is true)!
 
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