On the last day of January, we continued on with our “Merry Making”!
The Gewurztraminer (Guh-voorts-truh-meener) was finished fermenting, so we racked it into a carboy. The Wine and the Mead went downstairs for clearing (if you look closely, you can already see sediment is dropping out onto the bottom of the carboy) and for aging …
We’ll bottle the Gewurztraminer in early-mid March — it will be ready to drink in July. We’ll bottle the Mead in mid-April. The taste-tests will have to wait a while yet!!
We brought in (from our storage shed) another shelving unit from Mom & Dad – Wow! what great shelves!! Thanks Mom & Dad!! We rearranged our creations and equipment, making room for next creations to come!
Speaking of “next creations”… we started our “Sangria” for the Summer! This Pomegranate Wildberry Wave will make a great base for Sangria… we’ll just add a wee bit of citrus, possibly some soda water, and ice cubes!!
The “Sangria” will be racked mid-February and bottled along side the Gewurztraminer in early-mid March.