Green and purple grapes from Marcia's former house on Berkley St. Picked, pressed and frozen in September 2009. When bottled it was sweet with good grape flavor. Melomel / Pyment
Ingredients:
Yeast was prestarted with honey and agave nectar.
December 29, 2010 - Started heating honey and water in the kettle. Added grape juice and the must chiller. Heated to 170 and kept hot for 20 minutes. Cooled and poured into a carboy. Added water to make 5 gallons. Pitched yeast. Stirred and stored with a blow off tube.
Blow-off tube swapped for bubble-lock on February 3, 2011.
March 4, 2011 - Racked.
June 17, 2011 - Bottled.
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