This batch made from a 96 oz. can of Vintner’s Harvest Gooseberry Fruit Wine Base ($45) and a Vintner’s Reserve World Vineyard Collection: French Sauvignon Blanc 6-gallon kit ($68). I am basically following the kit’s instructions while borrowing a few elements from the recipe on the back of the Gooseberry can. A bit of an [...]
This batch made from a 96 oz. can of Vintner’s Harvest Gooseberry Fruit Wine Base. The recipe I chose/created will produce 3 gallons of wine. I will then mix 1.5 liters of Paul Masson VSOP Brandy with the wine, sweeten to taste and bottle to make a port-style wine with a little more than 15% [...]
This batch is from a wine kit: Winexpert Selection Original Series: Luna Rossa. A 4 gallon kit that produces 6 gallons of wine. It was about $118.
While working on an upcoming new website for Gramps (Free Open Source Genealogical Research tool that I contribute to) I am learning the challenges of developing a multilingual international website. In working with some translations I discovered that my character chart did not include characters from the Polish alphabet!
Needless to say, my character chart now [...]
Produces about 3.5 gallons of port-style wine at 15.7% alcohol.
This batch is from a wine kit: Winexpert Selection Original Series: Pinot Noir. A 4 gallon kit that produces 6 gallons of wine. It was about $118.
This batch was made from a kit: Winexpert Vintner’s Reserve World Vineyard Collection: Australian Shiraz. It is a 2.6 gallon kit that produces 6 gallons of wine. It cost about $75.
This wine is created from a kit: Winexpert Vintner’s Reserve: Cabernet Sauvignon. It is a 2 gallon juice concentrate kit that produces a 6 gallon batch of wine. The kit was about $60.
Not sure when this feature was added, but I’m running the Inkscape 0.47 preview and discovered that the default install now includes a “Printing Marks” feature. You can access it from the main menu:
Extensions > Render > Printing Marks
The small options window that pops up allows you to adjust a variety of settings for the [...]
Over the last few months I’ve been shopping for a new/refurbished laptop. I had my mind set on a refurbished Thinkpad R61 or R500, but those were ranging between $600 and $700. At that price I was going to have to wait a while until I had more money set aside. In the meantime I [...]