What did everyone cook today?

[lkrfletcher]

Chef

[Chef]

lkrfletcher That’s just about how my daughter and wife looked. LOL

[Jonathon]

Upvotes flowing freely tonight!

[YooperDog]

Jonathon Honey Garlic thick cut pork loin chops, rice pilaf and corn. Served up with some homemade crabapple wine.

[Jonathon]

YooperDog Looks amazing, you make your own crab apple wine? How is that? What’s the process like?

[YooperDog]

Jonathon chop us several pounds of crabapples, steep in hot water and sugar for several days, add your yeast and let nature and chemistry do their thing. Make some adjustments to the flavor profile, rack off sediment a couple of times, clarify/filter, make final flavor & sweetness adjustments, let it rest a month, check flavor, bottle and wait 3-6 months, better after a year. Not anything difficult, sort of puttsy at times. Depending how much wine I got going I just might have to take a nap after all the tasting. LOL

[PapaSop]

Not sure where to post this. Here or Drink of choice.
Not grilled in a while. Holidays screw everything up.

Anyway. A newer bourbon to wash it down. Very good. Yeah, the bourbon. Steak is great as always but shrooms was nice boost.

Cheers to “21”… Better is on the way!

[lkrfletcher]

PapaSop

[Tex_77]

PapaSop that’s some fine swill!

[Jonathon]

PapaSop One of the things we are going to do when we have the meatgistics meat up (hopefully 2021) is a whiskey/bourbon taste test!

[gChart]

YooperDog said in What did everyone cook today?:

Jonathon chop us several pounds of crabapples, … Depending how much wine I got going I just might have to take a nap after all the tasting. LOL

Ain’t that the truth. You can’t rack or bottle without a bit of a taste test of each variety!

I’ve made probably 20+ variations of different fruit including apple, but never tried crabapple - what’s the taste like?

Jonathon the process for pretty much any fruit wine is like YooperDog described: around 3-4 lbs of fruit per gallon, add sugar to get to the desired alcohol content, then pitch some yeast and let Mother Nature do her magic. Sometimes I’ll back-sweeten (for a controlled sweetness) or oak age with oak chips.

Currently “brewing”: strawberry rhubarb, apple, and peach.

[YooperDog]

gChart depends a bit on the yeast, type/amount of sugar. I would say something like a flat cider. Yes, I always tinker around with recipe a bit, yeasts, additives and yeast food sources. I been making wine since…along time and I am still learning

Crabapple, blackberry wines and blackberry mead waiting to be bottles after the holidays.

[gChart]

Venison kielbasa (using Walton’s ingredients of course), homemade pierogis, and pickled beets. Yum.

Got the wife a simple “dumpling press” as one of her Christmas gifts. Beats the heck out of pressing pierogis with a fork!

[calldoctoday]

gChart That looks really good for a cold Winter night & some of that good looking homemade hooch you guys have.

[lkrfletcher]

[Chef]

gChart You look like the house to hang out !

[Jonathon]

gChart I keep seeing your avatar and think you are Austin When I click on your profile you don’t look that much like him but from the little profile image you two look like twins!

[gChart]

Jonathon said in What did everyone cook today?:

gChart I keep seeing your avatar and think you are Austin When I click on your profile you don’t look that much like him but from the little profile image you two look like twins!

Haha. There are times in recent videos with him that I swear I’m looking in a mirror. Maybe not twin material but could probably pass as brothers.

[Tex_77]

gChart Austin has a stunt double!

[Austin]

gChart That is scary. I normally am not one to think many people look like each other, but that picture make us look very similar. If we ever get a Meatgistics Meat Up planned it would be fun to get you involved and do a parody video as me or something! Lol!