In an effort to branch out, and me wanting to do something other than beer for a change, I picked up my first wine kit today. It is a Spanish Rioja, a Wineexpert Selection International Series. I started it today. It was fairly straight forward, add 15g of bentonite in a 1/2 gallon of hot water, then add the juice, top up to 6 gallons, add the oak sawdust, add the yeast and seal up. In about a week I’ll do the next step of transferring to a 6 gallon carboy.  SG was 1.084.

Also, a recent trip to Florida found me the best liquor/beer store I’ve ever seen, Knightly Spirits in Orlando. Besides having the largest Belgian beer selection of any store I’ve been two, they had Everclear so I packed up 4 bottles in my suitcase for the flight home. With this, I started another batch of limoncello. I zested about 20 lemons and added them to 1.5 liters of 151 proof Everclear.