Yesterday I bottled two gallons of 2018/2019 farmer’s wine. This sweet, organic, cane sugar wine was made with black currant, rhubarb...

Today I harvested more berries … black currants. I must have a total of four quarts picked and there's still more coming ripe, maybe on...

Today I harvested, among other things, Melissa officinalis, commonly called lemon balm. This first harvest of Melissa will become a Melis...

Remember those peaches I harvested in August and that elixir I started? Well, today I strained, filtered and bottled it, the juicy love tha...

Remember the verjus I started back in September ? Well, it felt like the time was ripe to strain, filter and bottle it. Besides, I needed th...

Today I started the verjus brew . I decided to put a bit of organic vegetable glycerine in since glycerine is effective for extracting the t...

Last night The Boy (the spouse) picked a couple quarts of crabapples for me. My intention for them being to make … a libation and culinary...

Today I went apple picking with a new and rather wonderful friend. You know, those rare folk with whom you feel a subtle, yet undeniable con...

I have an electrical storm ... so all you get is the title and photo today! Even so, your comment gets you an entry in Win a Whimsy !

We had some elderberry wine left from last night, so I mixed it with a fresh bottle of rhubarb mead and ... it ... is ... delectable! I thin...

I worked with bee balm blossoms to make a little magic. Magic that will see a future similar to this ... Two little batches of sacred herbal...

Tired of seeing brewing images? Yeah? Too bad. Because I'm in the throes of a brewing frenzy, having way too much fun trying "new...

Today a made a number of things that fall into one of two categories: Unphotographable or Whowouldwanttoseeitevenifyoucould. But I did bott...

Today was a mostly sunny day - the first one in weeks, and I made my way into the garden to face facts. Many - if not most - of the seedlin...

After a lovely visit from my sweet friend Granny Annie I got to work on two one gallon batches of mead. What's bad about that? Well ......

Daybreak arrived with a strange light shining down from a blue sky. Quite frankly, it was a bit like waking to an alien landscape. I asked, ...

That " chamomile start " I made yesterday continued today with the straining of the steeped plant matter, the addition of sugar, l...

Yesterday I harvested the tops of the little self-sown chamomile plants and started a cold, overnight steep for the ale I'm starting tod...

I bottled the Crazy Collaboration Ale that was started in March. It is an odd mix of maple syrup, dried apples, coffee beans and wormwood. T...

Today I started a new gallon batch of yet another ale-experiment that I'm calling it Apple Spice, though the final name hinges on the fl...