Wine, Hops, and Cabinets

Well.....

I am trying to post photos here today, but it seems that the blogger folks are having problems as the photo posting thingy is not working.

I spent last Saturday (the 8th) picking and squeezing grapfruits, and started my white house wine. It took a few hours to sqeeze a wheelbarrow full of grapefruits, and I ended up with 4.5 gallons of grapefruit juice! (and a case of sore hands too)!!

It has been fermenting the past week and is now in the secondary where it will stay for around 4 to 6 weeks or so, then we'll have to rack it again. This particular wine will be ready in about 1.5 years from this week. I still have several bottles that are 2.5 years old and the wine is wonderful! Came out like a chablis andyou would never know that it was made of grapefruit. Everyone that has tried it loved it!

I also finished the kitchen cabinet project and that came out real nice too. I was going to post some pics of that today...but i guess it will have to wait till they fix this blogger thing.

I did get a chance to break up measure and repackage the pound of Amarillo Leaf Hops that I bought. I made 8 2oz vacume sealed packages and are now in the freezer. Ihave more to package, but I'll have to go out to Target and buy some more bags. The new vacume packager worked great and was real easy to use. (was going to post pics of that too..!)

I still need to work on getting the brewery ready for the 21 gallon batch of Amarillo Pale Ale that
I have planned to brew, but I caught the flu and havebeen down and out for the last 4 days. Today I feel somewhat better, but am still slightly feverish and a little queezy...not all that good.

Well...I hope that the perveyors of this bloggie thing can fix the photo posting problem soon, as I have quite a few of them to post.

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Wine Time and DIY...

Hi again!

Looks like we have Pics!

Below are the pics that were supposed to go with the above post.

Enjoy!

Here's a close up of the grapefruit on my tree. It's time to make wine!

And here Iam picking away!

Almost full! It takes a full load to make a 5 gallon batch of grapefruit wine.

And the fun begins! I spent around 3 hours cutting and squeezing.

The tree really puts out some nice fruit!

This is NOT what you think!! Here's my FoodSaver Vacume sealer sealing up some Amarillo hops! I repackaged 1 LB into 8 2oz packages then froze them for later use.

Getting ready to vacume seal. That's 2 oz there.

And here's how they came out. Notice the nice air tight sealed bags!

Here's our kitchen cabinets that my wife and I reworked. She created the glass panels, while I made the frames for the doors. She's really good at stained glass!

Below is a close up to show the glass work.

Below is a full shot of all of the cabinet doors.

Well....that's it for now....glad they fixed the pic upload tool...all seems well now.

Have a good week!

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