Club 600

GemuGrows

GemuGrows

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DST said:
Grapes are as complex as mj flowers....1000s of permutations. Reds or whites or roses'. What's your preference?
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Man thats the million dollar question right there hah; I honestly couldn't say I have a preference. I've enjoyed some amazing red wines and amazing white wines- i've not had much rose though

I just stared a bunch of mead, fruit meads, and fruit wines thought; i'll have to see how they all turn out.

I'm on track to have ~600 bottles ready for next summer of about 20 different varieties. Quite possibly more than that though :P

I've only been able to legally drink for 18 months (22.5y/o) so i'm going to use that excuse as to why i've not had any kickass 1998 bottles

Atm i'm making sure I build a large wine stock- once I have everything I feel like making on hand i'll snag some classy bottles but until then i've been spending most of my wine money on ingredients (which hasnt been cheap)

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In the works is a brunello, pinot gris, pinot grigio, blueberry pinot noir, pinot noir, show mead, raspberry mead, blueberry mead, blueberry wine, apple wine, apple raspberry wine, apple mead, peach apricot chardonnay and i'll be starting a bochet (mead with caramelized honey) soon.

On deck is probably a Sangiovese, chardonnay, cabernet franc, vermentino, blanc de noir and 12 more gallons of the Blueberry pinot noir (all my friends drank that shit up like prohibition was starting tomorrow)
 
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DST

DST

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GemuGrows said:
Man thats the million dollar question right there hah; I honestly couldn't say I have a preference. I've enjoyed some amazing red wines and amazing white wines- i've not had much rose though

I just stared a bunch of mead, fruit meads, and fruit wines thought; i'll have to see how they all turn out.

I'm on track to have ~600 bottles ready for next summer of about 20 different varieties. Quite possibly more than that though :P

I've only been able to legally drink for 18 months (22.5y/o) so i'm going to use that excuse as to why i've not had any kickass 1998 bottles

Atm i'm making sure I build a large wine stock- once I have everything I feel like making on hand i'll snag some classy bottles but until then i've been spending most of my wine money on ingredients (which hasnt been cheap)
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600 bottles...good figure to aim for:)

So you buy Grapes in then? Or you also grow them?
 
GemuGrows

GemuGrows

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DST said:
600 bottles...good figure to aim for:)

So you buy Grapes in then? Or you also grow them?
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Lately i've had to rely on grape kits; but they make fantastic wine.

I missed my chance to get fresh grapes this year- i'll be growing a few varieties next year though and I have people offering me high quantities of juice/fresh grapes from their 2017 harvest

For original recipe's i've had to rely on local fruits/honeys cuz fresh grapes can be tough to get your hands on at times

Its all a hobby though- making wine can fit into my busy school schedule and the bottles can age forever- where beer takes like 4-8 hours up front and the beer will go bad insanely quick compared to wine.

As far as i'm concerned I still have a pretty hefty head start vs most winemakers

Also lmao
"600 bottles...good figure to aim for:)"
I just remembered this is the 600 club. fuck yeah hah
 
Vnsmkr

Vnsmkr

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GemuGrows said:
Man thats the million dollar question right there hah; I honestly couldn't say I have a preference. I've enjoyed some amazing red wines and amazing white wines- i've not had much rose though

I just stared a bunch of mead, fruit meads, and fruit wines thought; i'll have to see how they all turn out.

I'm on track to have ~600 bottles ready for next summer of about 20 different varieties. Quite possibly more than that though :P

I've only been able to legally drink for 18 months (22.5y/o) so i'm going to use that excuse as to why i've not had any kickass 1998 bottles

Atm i'm making sure I build a large wine stock- once I have everything I feel like making on hand i'll snag some classy bottles but until then i've been spending most of my wine money on ingredients (which hasnt been cheap)

Edit:
In the works is a brunello, pinot gris, pinot grigio, blueberry pinot noir, pinot noir, show mead, raspberry mead, blueberry mead, blueberry wine, apple wine, apple raspberry wine, apple mead, peach apricot chardonnay and i'll be starting a bochet (mead with caramelized honey) soon.

On deck is probably a Sangiovese, chardonnay, cabernet franc, vermentino, blanc de noir and 12 more gallons of the Blueberry pinot noir (all my friends drank that shit up like prohibition was starting tomorrow)
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Look at all that on deck, wow! Nice lineup on the way. Never had meade myself, but looking fwd to hearing how it all turns out. I got turned onto wine by a good friends wife (gf at the time) when we were about same age as you, she was a few yrs older. Cool to see
 
GemuGrows

GemuGrows

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Theres actually some mead recipe's out there that only take like 1-2 month to make, "BOMM: Bray's One Month Mead," "Joe's Ancient Orange Mead." Those two recipe's come to mind. I'm expecting most of my meads to be very tasty at about 3 months.

These wine kits are incredible and very cheap, they are usually 6.5% abv but i'm boosting my latest one to 10%
http://www.winexpert.com/products/island-mist-refreshment-beverages?page=all
It ends up costing like $3/bottle and I challenge you all to find a better wine at that price. My friends fiended up the island mist blueberry pinot noir I made. If your not a big fan of wine you will be a huge fan of these. If your a wine snob then you will probably still really enjoy drinking these and you can use them to turn people onto wine

If your interested in trying to make mead; costco has very appropriate honey. Its like $3/lb and I know its made some award winning meads. I just started a blueberry mead (called a bilbemel) with frozen organic blueberries and honey all from costco. You can make mead for like $3 per bottle as well- and they are likely worth $15-30/bottle if you make it well.

We've all grown pot so were all patient enough to make meads and wines :D

My strategy is to use wine kits for quality "homemade wine;" but then to find high quality ingredients for my own recipes.

If people feel like jumping into the hobby my suggestion is make a bunch of quick finishing kits or recipes right up front so you have a good stockpile; then start making long aging kits and recipes so you can pretty much forget about them for a year or two once they are bottled.



My philosophy is that its generally very easy to make artisan products that are better than almost anything I can buy and it will be much cheaper. That philosophy has been developed by growing nugs, growing shrooms, growing organic produce, making wine, making beer, cleaning cuts out of cocaine, extracting dmt, foraging in the forest, etc...

If i'm going to be consuming something chances are that I can make it better than I can buy it. For example:

BB pinot noir
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Hefeweizen (original recipe)
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Golden Teacher (I don't grow these anymore and I nearly never eat them)
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Nug (White OG)
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Coca (I don't use this stuff anymore I got bored of it). Cleaned and crystalized20160807_062624_1472175898739.jpg

So yeah. If people ever think "I like this product" then you can probably make a superior product than the version that you were first interested in

I'm not trying to brag, i'm just trying to inspire
 

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Yodaweed

Yodaweed

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GemuGrows said:
Theres actually some mead recipe's out there that only take like 1-2 month to make, "BOMM: Bray's One Month Mead," "Joe's Ancient Orange Mead." Those two recipe's come to mind. I'm expecting most of my meads to be very tasty at about 3 months.

These wine kits are incredible and very cheap, they are usually 6.5% abv but i'm boosting my latest one to 10%
http://www.winexpert.com/products/island-mist-refreshment-beverages?page=all
It ends up costing like $3/bottle and I challenge you all to find a better wine at that price. My friends fiended up the island mist blueberry pinot noir I made. If your not a big fan of wine you will be a huge fan of these. If your a wine snob then you will probably still really enjoy drinking these and you can use them to turn people onto wine

If your interested in trying to make mead; costco has very appropriate honey. Its like $3/lb and I know its made some award winning meads. I just started a blueberry mead (called a bilbemel) with frozen organic blueberries and honey all from costco. You can make mead for like $3 per bottle as well- and they are likely worth $15-30/bottle if you make it well.

We've all grown pot so were all patient enough to make meads and wines :D

My strategy is to use wine kits for quality "homemade wine;" but then to find high quality ingredients for my own recipes.

If people feel like jumping into the hobby my suggestion is make a bunch of quick finishing kits or recipes right up front so you have a good stockpile; then start making long aging kits and recipes so you can pretty much forget about them for a year or two once they are bottled.



My philosophy is that its generally very easy to make artisan products that are better than almost anything I can buy and it will be much cheaper. That philosophy has been developed by growing nugs, growing shrooms, growing organic produce, making wine, making beer, cleaning cuts out of cocaine, extracting dmt, foraging in the forest, etc...

If i'm going to be consuming something chances are that I can make it better than I can buy it. For example:

BB pinot noir
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Hefeweizen (original recipe)
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Golden Teacher (I don't grow these anymore and I nearly never eat them)
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Nug (White OG)
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Coca (I don't use this stuff anymore I got bored of it). Cleaned and crystalizedView attachment 3824622

So yeah. If people ever think "I like this product" then you can probably make a superior product than the version that you were first interested in

I'm not trying to brag, i'm just trying to inspire
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Nice bro, hopefully next year my grapes come in full growth, I am growing 2 varieties of grapes, one pinot noir and one reliance seedless, it was horrible this year(hail) so they might have died but I want to make wine out of my outdoor crop in the next 5 years, I grew some oyster mushrooms recently, delicious.
 
GemuGrows

GemuGrows

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Yodaweed said:
Nice bro, hopefully next year my grapes come in full growth, I am growing 2 varieties of grapes, one pinot noir and one reliance seedless, it was horrible this year(hail) so they might have died but I want to make wine out of my outdoor crop in the next 5 years, I grew some oyster mushrooms recently, delicious.
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I'm looking forward to grow some grapes myself next summer :p my buddies with a vineyard got virtually no grape harvest cuz the plants froze immediately after they flowered

I should really grow some oyster mushrooms myself hah. I'll be setting up my old 5x5 to grow fruits/veggies in this winter; perhaps i'll grow some non-hallucinogenic mushrooms as well
 
bassman999

bassman999

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GemuGrows said:
I'm looking forward to grow some grapes myself next summer :p my buddies with a vineyard got virtually no grape harvest cuz the plants froze immediately after they flowered

I should really grow some oyster mushrooms myself hah. I'll be setting up my old 5x5 to grow fruits/veggies in this winter; perhaps i'll grow some non-hallucinogenic mushrooms as well
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Never tried mushrooms, are they as intense as LSD?
 
GemuGrows

GemuGrows

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bassman999 said:
Never tried mushrooms, are they as intense as LSD?
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I've taken a decent amount of "LSD"; i personally hate it :p

Mushrooms are "pretty similar" to LSD. LSD tends to be "geometric" and "sinister" where mushrooms to me have always had no rhyme or reason to the hallucinations and they are just goofy happy; but I know they can be sinister. I never got nausea off shrooms I grew and neither did anybody else

IMO the only drugs that are safe to use are drugs you made yourself. Boomers are cheap and easy to make for yourself.
 
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bassman999

bassman999

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GemuGrows said:
I've taken a decent amount of "LSD"; i personally hate it :p

Mushrooms are "pretty similar" to LSD. LSD tends to be "geometric" and "sinister" where mushrooms to me have always had no rhyme or reason to the hallucinations and they are just goofy happy; but I know they can be sinister. I never got nausea off shrooms I grew and neither did anybody else

IMO the only drugs that are safe to use are drugs you made yourself. Boomers are cheap and easy to make for yourself.
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I prefer my own weed for sure.
Acid wasnt for me thats for sure
 
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