Showing posts with label brewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brewing. Show all posts
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Preserving Log (Late Summer 2020)

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I’ve been on an absolute tear in the kitchen the last two weeks. Late August/early September is the middle harvest season (Mabon is coming r...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

The Fermentation Files, Spring 2019

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Spring finally sprang, and we’ve had a few weeks of beautiful weather. The grass grew all at once, the trees blossomed, and the rhubarb plan...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Brewing Notes (Cider and Wine)

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Mainly just notes for myself so I don't forget when I did what. Today I racked the rhubarb wine into a clean carboy. It's been about...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Fall Fermentation (Wine and Cider)

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Plum wine in the autumn sun  The satisfactions of living off of one's own land are many and varied. It is, for example, delightf...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Brewing Up a Storm (Drinking and Driving)

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My first batch of hard cider came out great! I can't take all the credit - or even most of it - or, in fact, hardly any of it at all. I ...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Cider, Revisited

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As I wrote in my last post, our neighbors J. and L., our pastors and friends, are leaving town. In exchange for Homero fixing up their car,...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Good News, Bad News

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I'm sad, because my pastor is moving across the country to be some other church's pastor. Pastor L. and her husband J. are friends ...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Homebrewers Make Good!

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Hooray! Several weeks ago, a couple of college age homebrewin' boys came to press apples with me. Even though I have burned in the past ...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Quiet Days on the Homefront

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I'd be writing more, but there's just not that much to write about. This is the quiet time of year. We still have the rent-a-buck he...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

My Favorite Time of the Year

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Apple cider time. We pressed our first batch of cider yesterday, and as usual, it kicked my butt. My knees and hips and ankles ache like mur...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Apple Overload

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   Apples and equipment are sterilized in a very dilute bleach-water bath    Hot day + hard work + cider and pulp everywhere = sweat + wasps...