Good muscadine year...

[Fecus]

We have Carlos, Pineapple, Scuppernong, some I don't remember the names of, some with high sugar, some with low sugar, some the size of golf balls, some small like wild, some with a few seeds and some with just one or two seeds. My brother got in his head to make a muscadine orchard some years back and I'm glad. There have been years of problems and years of plenty. This year, there's so many that the weight of the vines is breaking the landscape posts and we're having to brace up the runs with steel T posts. Has been a pay to pick but I have a feeling most of the harvest this year is going into fermenter buckets...if I have anything to do with it

[pumpman]

What is a muscadine.

[LWTCS]

A kind of grape

Good for you Fecus
Muscadines are my favorite for (drinking) wine.

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Pumpman, Take your wife here for a nice long weekend and score some "Likker" points

[Fecus]

Dang if I was in Florida I would be treasure hunting the beaches. Man you got to get you some muscadines

[LWTCS]

Man, I wish I had good solid blocks of time to render some brandy.

Fruit is not cheap either. Unless one has an orchard (or the like).

With the family and trying to make a living, I'll be sticking with sugar (and the like) prolly 96.7% of the time.

I jes don't have the time to do all the processing.

No matter,
Good luck to you and your muscadines

[Whohitjohn]

We have Carlos, Pineapple, Scuppernong, some I don't remember the names of, some with high sugar, some with low sugar, some the size of golf balls, some small like wild, some with a few seeds and some with just one or two seeds. My brother got in his head to make a muscadine orchard some years back and I'm glad. There have been years of problems and years of plenty. This year, there's so many that the weight of the vines is breaking the landscape posts and we're having to brace up the runs with steel T posts. Has been a pay to pick but I have a feeling most of the harvest this year is going into fermenter buckets...if I have anything to do with it

We're going to have a good year here too, but we've got about a month before they are ripe. I'll end up making about ten gallons of wine, distilling half of it, and mixing it all together. Works good on my grape concentrate wine anyway, can't see why it wouldn't on muscadine wine.

[mjdtexan]

I was all excited about the wild muscadine crop our out of the way parks normally have, but as fate would have it, we were under draught (sp?) conditions and the crop was very poor. We have be getting rain this last week so I am gonna go check. I was looking forward to muscadine wine. I am thinking about ordering from Isons this coming spring.

Has been a pay to pick but I have a feeling most of the harvest this year is going into fermenter buckets...if I have anything to do with it

I do like the way you think. I dont know iffin I would distlill em though. Muscadine wine is good stuff, ¿que no?

Mike