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Started by Tracey, February 03, 2013, 04:22:08 PM

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Shantel

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on May 11, 2013, 06:11:00 PM
Brandy is a distilled product. Anyone can make up to two hundred gallons of wine, no permit required.  You can't make a drop of distilled spirits or you're moonshining!

There's lots of moonshiners out in the countryside.
The wine looks really good!
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Devlyn

Quote from: Shantel on May 11, 2013, 08:43:36 PM
There's lots of moonshiners out in the countryside.
The wine looks really good!

Thank you. I've had  'shine when I lived in West-by-God-Virginia. Didn't drink it, I was twelve years sober at the time. Just let a few drops wet my lips and tongue without swallowing it. A unique beverage. I think the batch I tasted came from a fifty pound bag of Purina Goat Chow.

http://goat.purinamills.com/OURPRODUCTS/PRODUCTS/GoatChow/default.aspx
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Shantel

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on May 11, 2013, 08:54:06 PM
Thank you. I've had  'shine when I lived in West-by-God-Virginia. Didn't drink it, I was twelve years sober at the time. Just let a few drops wet my lips and tongue without swallowing it. A unique beverage. I think the batch I tasted came from a fifty pound bag of Purina Goat Chow.

http://goat.purinamills.com/OURPRODUCTS/PRODUCTS/GoatChow/default.aspx

There's a logging town way north of me where a lot of tar heels moved to years ago to work the forests. They have a world class Bluegrass festival there every year. I met a revenue man that  busted a still operation up there and claims it was the best whiskey he had ever tasted.
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Devlyn

The UPS guy was here almost every day this week. I got bottles, corks, a, corker, and pectic enzyme for my next batch, more on that in a minute. Mistakes were made, checking my notes I realized that I did nothing to set the color in the pomegranate/raisin wine, so most of the red disappeared leaving it more or less the golden color of a raisin wine.

The mango wine was made without pectic enzyme, and came out with a haze, or cloudy appearance. At my house the wine goes in the food, not in a glass, so the appearance is not an issue. It wouldn't make a good gift bottle, though. Anyway, they're bottled up in 750ml bottles, here's one of each for your viewing pleasure!

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DriftingCrow

They look beautiful Devlyn!
ਮਨਿ ਜੀਤੈ ਜਗੁ ਜੀਤੁ
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Devlyn

Thanks, one of my mistakes is visible in the pomegranate, a cork crumb from the previous bottle. Always wipe out the inside of the corker before each bottle! Also note the Braille on the mango.
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