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[Bud Guidry]

who makes their own home made wine, got a batch of strawberry i just bottled thats amazing, another batch of strawberry cooking, . spent the last month planting trees and blackberry and grape vines, planted 10 concord grape, 10 white grape and one red grape vine, 15 black berry plants including thornless varieties. kiowa berries that get as big as kiwi fruit., natchez and arapahoe

four peach trees (felician, saturn, florida king and florida queen), four avocado trees which are flowering now, 15 citrus trees, satsumas (four types) and navel oranges (four types), one lemon tree and one kumkwat . citrus all in full bloom, honey bees swarming to polunate every mourning

three .varieties of plums, red plums, burbank and methley .

25 strawberry plants 2 varieties, 100 white onions, 5 pepper plants, a row of red potatoes. 6 tomato plants

2 red rasberry plants

one muscadine

and i repotted all our house plants we keep around the pool area, about 40 potted plants including palm trees, (what a job)

the mulberry and elderberry seasons going to be exceptional, trees are full of early berries, gonna make some amazing wines this year. wines are made following strict guidelines we use from winery recepies. one bottle and your bombed

yep, been real busy being a cajun and doing what i love doing

isonichia, you could write a book about me and it would be a best seller

[Frenchcaster]

Sounds awesome Bud. I'm jealous (of the winemaking mostly). Sounds quite delicious too. I miss my Mom's black current
Iiquor - mixed in a bit of dry white wine it is such a refreshing delight.

Take care

Andreas

[Alex Hayes]

Sounds like a fun project! It is always very rewarding to be able to enjoy something you created from start to finish. I am jealous of your flowering trees! Here in Michigan we are getting some warm weather at least. I'm ready for spring.

[Fly Tyer Guy]

My cousin has gotten into the wine making, and he made some dandelion wine, and it was actually really good. I really like the sound of blackberry wine too. What all of your new trees and plants are you going to make wine with?, 'cause you can make wine with almost anything, I'm just wondering what a jalapeno wine would taste like?

Yeah Alex, who would've thought, 80 degrees in March (At least here in W.MI.), and it doesn't look like there is a cool-down coming anytime soon. It's been record setting temps the last few days. Spring, or maybe even summer is here. Time to start thinking about fishing.

[Bud Guidry]

first batch of strawberry came out great, i have another 6 gallons of strawberry bubbling, a batch of wild berry, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries cooking, a batch of exotic fruit, pinapple, mangos and kiwi cooking, and tommorow i put a batch of black cherry in the fermentor.

man i'm having fun watching those airlocks bubble up, smells real good around here

gonna do elderberries and blackberry, mulberries about ready to shake from the trees so these will be next to hit the fermentors

[BCBound]

Last year I started brewing my own beer. There is a local shop that make their own malt, and sell all the fresh hops and grains you would ever need. For now I buy their malt (not quite ready to make my own) and buy grains and hops according to specific recepies. I've done four different batches, Amber Ale, Pilsner (the best so far), a Black Berry Porter made with black berries from my inlaws property, and a second round with the Amber Ale.

I think I over did it with the black berries, but it's a good beer none the less. It's a very rewarding process, and the quality, when you hit it right, is top notch.

I can't wait until my family and I move back to Vancouver Island, get our own property, and get to planting.

Nothing like watching that initial fermentation, it's very cool.

Sounds like your having a blast. Keep posting about it.