Any Wine Makers Among Us

[peternap]

While I was out buying the foodsaver, I went shopping at the winemakers shop. Bought a couple of airlocks, .79 and I got a deluxe one for .99. A bottle of yeast, a stopper with a hole to use the airlock and my wife bought a crack cocaine lighter to singe meringue/

Time to make Meade   

[muldoon]

time to make mead..

sweet, what recipe are you going by?  what yeast did end up with? 

[peternap]

time to make mead..

sweet, what recipe are you going by?  what yeast did end up with? 

Thought I'd try this one first:
http://www.hbd.org/brewery/cm3/recs/10_08.html

But I got the wrong yeast. The yeast I got just said basic yeast.

[Daddymem]

Some Lithuanian recipes:
http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/food/drinks.html

Perhaps you could do a kvass instead.

[cordwood]

 Most "HomeGrown" fruit don't need yeast, It comes natural on the skin. Commercially washed fruit needs yeast because the they spray detergent on it and kill the microbes.
The wife "Racked" the Muscadine today and it looks good . Missed out on the strawberry this year but we did get a good batch of blackberry that already got "drunk" I think that would be the proper term in this situation?!?!
Found a good stand of Rasberries this spring and can't hardly wait til next spring and get some before the Bears eat them all
We use 5gal buckets with bubblers and then bottle with balloons to finish fermenting before more long term storage.

[glenn kangiser]

Some Lithuanian recipes:
http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/food/drinks.html

Perhaps you could do a kvass instead.

Cool....maybe something some of my relatives drunk... in fact a lot of them were... many times...