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Leslie T
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Hello from Idaho

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Hi, We bought a house 6 years ago that has 4, 60 year old grape vines... we have tons of grapes. We also planted several fruit trees so we have been talking about getting a still and making brandy for some time now. This year was epic for our grapes! So many grapes... So I have three batches of natural wine brewing and plan on have at least 7 or 8 batches by the end of the season. So this year we bought an apple press for juicing and we bought an alembic still with an electric boiler. I know we have ALOT to learn.
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Bushman
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Welcome to HD, you should fins some good threads on making brandy and grappa.
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Copperhead road
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Welcome Leslie, super keen to here more about your Grappa n brandy ventures..... :thumbup:
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Leslie T
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Thanks for the welcome. I am hoping for some info. I am sure I will have to adventures to share! lol
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Oldvine Zin
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Welcome aboard and looking forward to hearing about your brandy making experiences. What still did you buy? A few of the store bought stills are good but many of them are bad. We are all about safety here and some of the unsafe ones can be improved with a few simple mods.

be safe
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dirtybird33
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You must be in the south west end of the state if you have grapes. I am on the south east end myself.
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Welcome From the wet side of WA. There's a bunch of us here from the PNW.
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Leslie T
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dirtybird33 wrote:You must be in the south west end of the state if you have grapes. I am on the south east end myself.
Yes... you are correct
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Leslie T
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Re: Hello from Idaho

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Oldvine Zin wrote:Welcome aboard and looking forward to hearing about your brandy making experiences. What still did you buy? A few of the store bought stills are good but many of them are bad. We are all about safety here and some of the unsafe ones can be improved with a few simple mods.

be safe
OVZ
I got the Alembic version with an electric boiler by Still Spirits
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Re: Hello from Idaho

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Belated WELCOME, Leslie T.
Use the HD Google Search (above right) and search "grapes" for lots of info.
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