Rescue Raspberry

Today I racked "Rescue Raspberry" into the fermentor and installed the airlock. It will need racked again in a few weeks, that will give me a better idea when I can finish and bottle. 

The first reading on the hydrometer was 22 brix. For you nerds thats a measurment of sugar by percent, 22 brix has the potential to make a 12.5-13% Alc by volume in wine. My second measurement, today was 10 brix so a little over have the sugar has been made into alcohol. This is good news the yeast is doing its job, and it should be done fermenting by the next time I rack. Then it just needs some time to clear and age.

I have uploaded the label. What do you think about the label and name of the new wine. 

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Hard to the Core

Its just about time to bottle Hard to the Core Apple Cider....VERY EXCITED for Friday when the bacon will be woven and the cider be flowin.


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Iron Lotus Label

Ok...The Fire Dog Winery Graphic Design Team, has been working on the label for Iron Lotus. We need your help, pleas take the Poll to the right and tell us if we should keep the label as is or keep working on us. If you have any suggestion on how to make it better please leave a comment or email us your own label to firedogwinery@gmail.com. Thanks for your help!

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Iron Lotus

Iron Lotus has been bottled. It is a beautiful light green color and it taste great. It is chilling right now and will be opened on the 5th (if it makes it that long).

We are waiting on our supplies from our friends at Homebrew4less. Once we get the supplies the Hard Cider and and Strawberry will be racked and left alone to age a few more months. It looks like the fermentation is about finished and i consider that a good sign.

After the racking I hope to start work on BoBo's Berries and Alarm Blueberry.

Whit will be headed to South Dakota in about 11 days to start up Fire Dog Winery South Dakota Branch (FDWSDB). We are all excited about the expansion and the increase in volume and styles of wine we will be able to produce.

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