Showing posts with label cider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cider. Show all posts
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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Monday, September 5, 2016

Is There Anything as Good as Apple Cider?

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Oops, that's a picture of bowls full of cherries. When I selected the thumbprint, I thought it was buckets of apples. Oh well - do...
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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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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Apples Kicked my Ass

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After the girl scouts went home, a lovely older couple from Lynden showed up with a full barrel (or more) of Russet apples off their antiqu...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Apple Madness

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More people came over to cider yesterday afternoon. They were a very sweet couple originally from New York with six or seven big tote bags f...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Cidering Party

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What a great day I had yesterday. Two of my friends came over with their husbands, kids, and boxes of apples and pears to make cider. I mad...
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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...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Cider Season

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My lovely old apple press, before I dragged it out of the shed and killed my back.                                         First batch of ju...