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Entries Tagged as 'Wine'

Thyme/Time Enough

June 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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Tags: Herbs · Musings · Recipes · Vegetables · Wine

Vinegar Barrel

October 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments

For some time I have been making vinegar from my homemade wines. I have been using a 1/2 gallon canning jar and while it seemed like it would be plenty when I started the fact is that it takes quite a while for the vinegar to finish and I never seemed to have enough. I [...]

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Tags: Recipes · Wine

First Bottling

May 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I was inside fairly early and decided to go ahead and bottle some of the wine I started around the first of the year. I had 1 gallon jug of each – two meads (one with orange, cinnamon and vanilla and one a plain mead), raspberry and blackberry. The honey is some I have had [...]

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Tags: Blackberries · Fruit · Raspberries · Wine

New Fruit Trees and Some Dandelions for Wine

April 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In the last 24 hours I received 4 of the 6 fruit trees I ordered for this year. These and a few multiplier onions are about the only things I am adding this year. I pretty much have everything I want to fool with up to this point. Yesterday the nectarines from Stark were on [...]

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Tags: Flowers · Fruit · Native Plants · Wine

A little wine for thy stomach’s sake

March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Several years ago my partner T. suggested I try some wine for my stomach. I’ve had stomach ‘issues’ from way back and while the prescription meds do help tremendously, there are occasionally times where I need a little more. Hardly believing it would help I finally gave in and tried her suggestion. I was surprised [...]

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Tags: Blackberries · Fruit · Projects · Raspberries · Wine