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 Primary fermentation complete for first batch of red wine of 2024.  Off to a messy start!  #agorism #homesteading 

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 Love it! Want ti start as well 
 I've got that same press 
 Last year was my first year having a press, now every fall I wonder how I lived without it!  What do you use the press for? 
 I have only pressed apples in mine 
 I have that same crusher. Gonna make cider using it 
 Hard or regular?  Do you have your own trees?  I just finished my last batch of cider using our apple waste after freezing and drying.  9 gallons of cidar total. 
 I do have my own trees! My trees didn’t put out a lot this year so its not going to be a banner year for cider. It’ll definitely be hard though. 

We’ll start wine in a few weeks, but we buy juice from the juice house so all I’m doing is fermenting 
 I hope to start wine making again next year.  I really enjoyed it. Just have to not drink so much ;-) 
 Haha, nice!  I'm in my fourth year of wine making.  I still suck at, but it is a fun fall activity and sometimes I get lucky.  
 I did mostly fruit based - Blueberry,  Loquat, Muscadine, also mead but honey is way more expensive than sugar.