Essential Oils

Time to bottle the Cabernet. Well, its actually two days early...but i was impatient and already rented a corker from the store for 24 hours. No more of this silly red plastic wannabe corker that is advertised to only need one person to operate when really it takes 2 to 3 people.

i have to admit i was pretty excited to use this huge thing. It has a spring on the base to hold the bottle against the cork and locks in place when the handle is pressed down. You can also adjust how deep you want to push the cork in. Pretty sweet. i might even buy one. i guess i really shouldn't because you can rent them for free, but you have to return them the next day and that is just more gas money...

Well, i'm no math major...but if the distance to the store is 7.2 miles, and my car gets 24 mpg, and gas prices are 2.80 bones per gallon...it would cost me 84 cents one way...$1.68 there and back...it costs 56 bones to buy a corker...so i'm looking at 33 trips to the store to make the investment worth it...and that's not even taking in a count of how much my times is worth! I'm going to to say my time is worth 33 cents per minute...and the time to the store and back is 32 minutes..that's 10.56 plus the 1.68...$12.24, divide and round up. 5 trips break even. : P

And i have just done a math problem equivalent to problems done by 6th graders...woot.
Here are the bottles, decided to go all green this time. Oh and one blue bottle because the store left a bottle out of a box the last time...
Its kind of boring making 30 bottles of the same flavor. Here is a bottle of crazy blueberry flavoring we added to 3 gallons of the wine. Pretty lame i know, but can't really ruin the wine doing it this way.

Cleaned the bottles...

Here is the wine and the new 3 gallon carboy, kind of looks like a glass grenade...i got cousin brent to come over again to help bottle. But once we started to bottle he broke out his work laptop and tried starting a VPN to his work...no reason, just because he could...lame.

Racked the wine into the 3 gallon carboy so we could mix the blueberry flavoring without stirring up any sediment.
Filled up the bottles, and corked them in no time. So much better than that other corker. Didn't figure out that you could adjust the cork dept until the second bottle, so the cork is like a half inch in the bottle...
i believe there is another another box of concentrated grape juice waiting to be started around here. At the home brew store i saw that they have stills for sale. But not to be used to make alcohol because that's illegal. Only used to make essential oils and to distill your own water...but its like 450 bones for a still..i didn't even see if it was a reflux one..if it was then maybe it might be a good investment...but i know i could find them or make a better one for less. Some day, i'll make some sweet essential oils...and get crunked.