Our Peach Chardonnay is all finished and it is delicious! All in all we had just under 6 gallons of wine. We used some standard wine bottles for some of it and we also got some cool blue flip-tops. The flip-tops will probably hold some beer too in the future! Each flip-top is 1 liter, and my brewing buddies all know how I prefer my beers a liter at a time! I'm thinking these would be perfect for holding a bock or other tasty German lager for spring time....okay okay, let's get back on track. Ash was a great help for sanitizing and filling the bottles. The cool thing about wine is it doesn't need any bottle conditioning time; once you bottle it all you need to do is get it cold. So we sampled some last night while we watched the Razorbacks whoop up on Missouri State. It is semi-sweet, peachy, and all around clean and crisp. A really good brew for autumn, which is fast approaching. Enjoy the pics of our Labor Day Peach Chardonnay! That is all for now. The next update you all hear from me will hopefully be a beer brewing update....I am itching like a hound to fire up the brew kettle.
Sanitation is key!
Racking the wine.
Gravity, final gravity was just under 1.020. That's because of the peach extract we added in the secondary. I never took a gravity reading beforehand but I would guesstimate the wine is about 10% ABV.
Ash was a natural at bottling the wine, not a drop was wasted!
The final bounty (minus a few bottles that were in the fridge chilling already).
The final bounty (minus a few bottles that were in the fridge chilling already).
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