2022 Elderberry
March 2022 This wine has been planned since last summer, but I’m just getting around to making it. I have a 25 liter (6.6 US gallon) demijon free, so the plan is to make...
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2018 Elderberry Batch #2
August 2018 This batch is the first time I’m trying an experiment I’ve been considering for 30 years — feeding a wine sugar to jack the alcohol up to ~18% and sweetening it, to...
2018 Elderberry Batch #1
August 2018 This concentrate was a spur-of-the-moment purchase — I was thinking about elderberry and then I spotted the package in American Brewmaster. I didn’t even read the ingredients until I reached home. I...
1997 Canned Cabernet
December 2007 – I called this one “Canned Cabernet” as I made it from canned concentrate. Years before I did cherry wine from concentrate, and it didn’t come out too bad. This one? The...
1987 Welch’s Raspberry Juice
October 2018 – I supposed I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am – when I see that people are still fermenting Welch’s. I have no clear remembrance why I did this, other than I...
1986 Welch’s Grape Juice
October 2018 – This was my first try with Welch’s. In reading my notes, I see that this one fermented dry, but the raspberry didn’t. It may be the preservatives level, or possibly the...
1986 Cherry
June 2021 – I’m honestly surprise I don’t have notes on this wine. I recall it very distinctly. This was my first concentrate wine — I purchased a 2 quart can of cherry concentrate....
1985 OceanSpray CranRaspberry
October 2018 – This wine was far from being a classy wine. But it was delicious and the five bottles I got from the batch got wiped out in short order. Aging wine was...
1985 Welches Grape Juice
October 2018 – I recall that I wanted to make grape wine – “real” wine – but had no access to grapes. Welch’s grape juice struck me as the next best thing. Oddly enough,...