Sorry it took a couple days, but we’ve been busy this week. On the way back home, we stopped into Lagunitas in Petaluma. We took a tour of the brewery. They recently got a brand new brewing system from Germany that is twice the size of their old brew kettles. Now they can make much larger batches. We sampled a few of their beers; my husband’s favorite is called Brown Shugga. They had a circus going on while we were there, complete with circus freaks and a two headed goat. So it was interesting. Apparently all the guys on the line like Randy Savage, the wrestler; they had action figures of him all over the place. All their fermentors had funny names, cartoon characters and such.
One of the things that have been keeping us busy has been transferring our wine into the carboy. We are on the final step of fermentation before bottling. We put in sulfites and a bunch of other additives. The sulfites and potassium slow the fermentation process. The other additives help clear the wine. The wine has gone from a cloudy yellow to almost clear. We can’t bottle it until it’s completely clear, which will take a couple weeks. In the meantime, we have to drink some wines to collect bottles.
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A two headed goat was it alive?
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