| Step 1 - Put the dog on gopher patrol in the new field Step 2 - Make your son plant new trees |
How to make Apple Wine and have a great time!
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| Step 4 - Make sure your father in law likes running a brush hog (don't let him cut everything.... need beneficials) |
| Step 3 - Let the help (family) do what they want when not spraying, planting, picking. |
| Step 5 - Harvest with Dave. When Dave asks his wife to bring beer make sure you tell her which field. |
| Step 6 - After you let the apples sweat a few weeks. Put the kids to work. |
| Step 7 - Have your sister in law and daughter wash the apples and toss anything that is not good. |
| This is me supervising the process |
| Step 8 - wash everything, then wash it again |
| Step 9 - pump the brix to 25, add champagne yeast, rack, rack again, rack again then bottle when clear. |
| Step 9 - Convince friends and family that the antique press and grinder is an exercise machine. They might even pay you. |
| Step 10 - pump the brix to 25, add champagne yeast, rack, rack again, rack again then bottle when clear. |
| Last and most important step.... Enjoy with good friends and family. There are easier and more efficient means of productions that we can use, but none more fun than this. If it isnt fun, why do it? |
| No reason in the world for this pic to be here except that since its my web site I can do what I want!... This is an authentic ford 871 Golden Demonstrator (I'd guess there are less than 100 of these left in the country) that belongs to a friend and neighbor that he pulled out of a snow bank last year and restored... I like old tractors almost as much as I like Wine. Thou shall not covet thy neighbors tractor. |