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= History =
= History =
== Summer 2021 ==
=== July 15, 2021 ===
Picked up Santa Rosa plums from Andrew and Barbara.
=== July 31, 2021 ===
Cut and depitted 12 plums. Made about 2.25 cups (didn't have a scale on me). Added 3 cups of granulated sugar (about 600 grams) and 6 cups of water (filter, boiled, and cooled). (Gonna try it totally wild this time — no [[lemon honey wine]] starter this time.) Put it all in my 항아리. Once again, smells great!
=== August 2021 ===
Fungus. :-( Fail.


== Summer 2020 ==
== Summer 2020 ==
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=== June 29, 2020 ===
=== June 29, 2020 ===


Cut, depitted, and mashed 858 grams of plums. Added 535 grams of (mostly raw turbinado) sugar, 1 cup of a lemon honey wine I had made from Eun-Joung's lemons and Nova Scotia raw honey, and 5 cups of filter watered (boiled for 30 minutes, then cooled). Put it all in my 항아리. Smells so good!
Cut, depitted, and mashed 858 grams of plums. Added 535 grams of (mostly raw turbinado) sugar, 1 cup of a [[lemon honey wine]] I had made from Eun-Joung's lemons and Nova Scotia raw honey, and 5 cups of filtered water (boiled for 30 minutes, then cooled). Put it all in my 항아리. Smells so good!
 
=== July 1, 2020 ===
 
Starting to bubble! That lemon honey wine is doing its thing.
 
=== July 5, 2020 ===
 
Bottled the liquid with a fermentation lock, adding a good amount of sugar. Ground up the solids and added apple cider vinegar to make plum [[shrub]].
 
=== August 22, 2020 ===
 
I thought the fermentation was done, so I siphoned the wine into a bottle. Then I noticed it was still bubbling slightly. Jessica and I tasted the wine. It was really good! It's still slightly sweet, and it's not super complex, but it's fruity and delightful with just a hint of booze. Decided to add it back to the carboy to ferment a little more before bottling, but I think it's nice right now.
 
=== June 19, 2021 ===
 
Enjoyed the finish product over dinner with Andrew and Barbara!


= See Also =
= See Also =

Latest revision as of 23:48, 11 October 2021

History

Summer 2021

July 15, 2021

Picked up Santa Rosa plums from Andrew and Barbara.

July 31, 2021

Cut and depitted 12 plums. Made about 2.25 cups (didn't have a scale on me). Added 3 cups of granulated sugar (about 600 grams) and 6 cups of water (filter, boiled, and cooled). (Gonna try it totally wild this time — no lemon honey wine starter this time.) Put it all in my 항아리. Once again, smells great!

August 2021

Fungus. :-( Fail.

Summer 2020

June 24, 2020

Picked Santa Rosa plums from Andrew and Barbara's garden.

June 29, 2020

Cut, depitted, and mashed 858 grams of plums. Added 535 grams of (mostly raw turbinado) sugar, 1 cup of a lemon honey wine I had made from Eun-Joung's lemons and Nova Scotia raw honey, and 5 cups of filtered water (boiled for 30 minutes, then cooled). Put it all in my 항아리. Smells so good!

July 1, 2020

Starting to bubble! That lemon honey wine is doing its thing.

July 5, 2020

Bottled the liquid with a fermentation lock, adding a good amount of sugar. Ground up the solids and added apple cider vinegar to make plum shrub.

August 22, 2020

I thought the fermentation was done, so I siphoned the wine into a bottle. Then I noticed it was still bubbling slightly. Jessica and I tasted the wine. It was really good! It's still slightly sweet, and it's not super complex, but it's fruity and delightful with just a hint of booze. Decided to add it back to the carboy to ferment a little more before bottling, but I think it's nice right now.

June 19, 2021

Enjoyed the finish product over dinner with Andrew and Barbara!

See Also