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What are you going to brew over the holiday weekend?

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Is anyone going to be brewing over the 4th of July weekend?

I plan on making a very fine blonde ale, a 5-gallon batch of traditional sweet mead, and possible a pea pod wine.

Brian K
 

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Well,

I owe WrathWilde an R-HST batch to see if my yeasties clump or not so I'll be doing that tomorrow with several others. Probably two batches of Western Buckwheat, Two batches of Orange Blossom, Two batches of Wildflower, along with two each of sage and mesquite. We'll see how far I get. Plus, I'm going to bottle my Dad's wine, and probably the 2004 Zinfandel.

I finished off the last of the 2003 Zin that I brought out to the Mead Slosh in Riverside last night. I actually have two bottles left, but I have a girl coming in from France this weekend to visit with my cousins and I so we'll swill that when she gets here.

Cheers,

Oskaar
 

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Party, send mother in law home, Def Leppard/Bryan Adams concert, fry a turkey, fix my storm damaged gazebo, make 15 gallons of wine, bio-neem the garden, pretty much sums up my weekend ;)
 

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Nothing :(

Cant afford to get any honey right now. (and of course this is the Canada Day long weekend ;) )

I did brew up another batch of stout on Thursday night though.
 

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Independence Day here is not celebrated on the 4th of July :D. I do have warm memories of celebrations staged by the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel - all-day events at one of the big public parks in Jerusalem, with '60s music provided by a band called The Alte Rockers ;D, frisbees peacefully sailing overhead, kids scampering around while the grownups handled the barbecues or patronized the hot dog vendor. No longer viable, for security issues are too serious to allow for that anymore.

But the brewing agenda for the next several days: 1 gallon of Oskaar's Spicy Cyser, 2 gallons of apple-blackcurrant wine, and possible a marigold metheglin, depending on carboy availability. And transferring to secondary a peach/ginger melomel taken from Ken Schramm's book, plus two gallons of peach wine. That's enough for now, although I have some dim ideas about a raisin wine or pyment based on raisins, and a carob concoction of some sort - for later. I spend entirely too much time thinking about wine and mead. ;)

Miriam
 

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bio-neem the garden, trim storm damage from garden, party complied with. No fixing gazebo, after season is done, it's trash :(. Concert tonight (Sunday) ;D
 

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Miriam said:
That's enough for now, although I have some dim ideas about a raisin wine or pyment based on raisins, and a carob concoction of some sort - for later.

Hi Miriam! I made a raisin wine a couple of years ago. I used 4 pounds of blue raisins in a 5 gallon batch. The feedback from a number of people was that I should have used 8 pounds of raisins.

I'll post the recipe if you want.

Brian K
 

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Honestly, I wasn't planning on it but mom pointed out the fact that I had about 9 lbs of raspberryes in the fridge so I went for it -> Raz-Bearry melomel. It is posted in the recipes forum.

Happy 4th to all,
Ted
 

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Brian, that would be very cool, thank you.

I have 3.5 kg. of indigo-blue raisins, cured without sulfites and sold in the local open-air market as "Bucharian raisins". They looked so interesting I had to do something with them. I think I need another half-kilo to start though.

I've seen recipes for pea-pod wine. One English friend says that it's the favorite in her house. CJJ Berry called it "an attractive light wine", and affirmed that it's better than it sounds.

I believe that I'm in the advanced stages of Uncontrolled Fermentation-Urge Sydrome. Let the eye rest ever so gently on any vegetable or fruit, and the brain feverishly begins to calculate how much water and sugar; which yeast; and what other additives needed to make make liquor out of them. Forget about honey, once kept for Rosh HaShannah honeycake or for drizzling over pancakes - a new jar of honey brings on a positive frenzy of UFUS. And before you know it, you're staggering under a load of wonderful new material out of which to make booze! ...There's something wrong with this picture. A Jewish matron should be attending to home and business, not obsessing with fermentation.

Ay de mi. I might as well stop fighting it and enjoy. However I suspect many of the people on this forum have these symptoms to one degree or another ;D.

Miriam
 

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Hi Miriam,
You mean not everybody thinks this way? My honey supply is down to 24 lbs and frankly, I'm panicking :-\ All fruit are fair game ;D ;D My mom found my stash of ripe apricots and not knowing what I had in mind, feared they'll spoil so she made a jam out of them :'( Oh,well, back to the market.
I think you have the right idea, those who think of us as strange have no clue what they're missing...Their loss....

Ted
 

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Miriam said:
I believe that I'm in the advanced stages of Uncontrolled Fermentation-Urge Sydrome. Let the eye rest ever so gently on any vegetable or fruit, and the brain feverishly begins to calculate how much water and sugar; which yeast; and what other additives needed to make make liquor out of them.

Well, I'm pretty sure I too suffer from UFUS. Everytime I'm at the grocery store or farmer's market I find myself shopping for my mead instead of shopping for me. :D
 
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