The Merlot

Since the Shiraz that i brewed is ready to drink it won't be long until we give away those bottle or consume so might as well start another batch of red to add to the 'wine cellar'. This time we decided to do something boring and make a batch of Merlot.

Brent messaged me and told me he would be over so i would have some help making the junx. Which is always a good thing...its kind of boring if you do everything by yourself. Plus it lets me take these sweet action wine making shots.

Here brent is rinsing the juice bag with some water to get as much juice into the primary fermenter as possible.

Topping up the bucket to the fill line...Here brent is trying to be funny and look like he's taking a sip of the juice. But when he up the spoon down some juice actually splashed in his mouth and he then had a sour look on his face...jokes on him.Here he have just added the yeast and put the bucket in the warmest room in the house to help the yeast do its thing.The specific gravity of this batch was 1.080. i found a website that will convert your first and final SG reading to the alcohol by volume. Of course i have no idea how accurate it is. They site gave me totally different values than the ones that i calculated. Whatever, as long as i get a buzz with my meal.

i miss calculated the number of days that the wine will be fermenting and turns out i won't be around to further the wine process when it needs to so it'll ferment for an extra week before i come back. Oh well, the reds have been fermenting slowing anyway, might do it a little good.

After the wine was all done and i cleaned a few things brent said he was going to bounce. What?? You can't just wine and dash in this house. We decided to watch a movie. i was even kind enough to nuke brent some hot dogs. The movie of choice was Grindhouse Death Proof. It was a pretty ridiculous movie. Of course with Quentin Tarantino being the directore there were several references to Pulp Fiction. Brent can't be away from a computer for more than 5 minutes so during the whole movie he was typing away on his eeepc. Its no power house pc but for the price and its size its a good second laptop to carry around. Overall Death Proof was a good movie. Now i'll have to watch Planet Terror just so i can say i watched Grindhouse.