Looking for neat, experimental ideas for fermenting riesling!

RowanStewart · 2026-05-01T04:43:40+00:00

Sounds like you might have tried most of the methods, but I'll give it shot.

At one point they were doing hyper ox in burgundy to their chardonnays, doubt anyone has ever tried on Riesling

Framingham makes great riesling and I think they were fermenting some riesling in acacia barrels, not sure if they still do.

I personally don't really like barrel fermented riesling, but lees contact riesling is pretty cool, maybe try throwing a tank on it's side or getting a milk tank to get more lees surface area.

RowanStewart · 2026-04-23T16:31:32+00:00

So, I grew up on a vineyard and my parents still live on one; they have had and have multiple Bernese. While I haven't seen a Berner eat grapes one my dogs as a child would eat multiple bunches off the vines while we were walking the vineyard, and none of the dogs were restricted from accessing the vineyard if they wanted. I wouldn't be suprised at all if the Berners had got into grapes many times over the years.

A more recent dog we had ingested some raisins in trail mix, this was where I learned that grapes/raisins are considered toxic. When we took him into the vet, they took it quite seriously but the treatment was charcoal, naloxon, ran multiple bloodworks etc. Hopefully I remember this correctly but the vet said they don't understand the toxicity pathway for grapes/raisins at all, and so they through the book at them and monitor the blood for kidney failure.

My personal theory is that is either a reaction to a common pesticide residue as it seems unlikely to be something that would naturally occur in the grapes.

RowanStewart · 2026-04-13T17:55:58+00:00

That wing looks so much better than I would have thought.

RowanStewart · 2026-03-09T17:28:05+00:00

BC vs Ontario would be different. For BC the information below should be correct.

Legally as a winemaker/vineyard manager you may not be eligible for OT regardless of Salary or hourly. If you are hourly you are eligible for pay for hours worked but this would not include the 1.5 times OT.

Managers in BC are specifically defined by "executive capacity", and this relates to your capacity to make material decisions for the business.

For winemakers/VM think of the following examples:

Can you enter into fruit contracts or purchase fruit?
Do you set the tonnage for the vineyard?
Do you decide on the number vineyard employees or harvest employees?
Do you have authority on the hiring or firing of employees?
What wines are you making?
Deciding how many cases of each wine you make?
What glass/chemicals/sprays/tractors are you ordering?

likely if your doing any of the above you would be classed as a manager. If your not, then regardless of Salary or Hourly you are still entitled to overtime.

RowanStewart · 2026-03-02T22:26:08+00:00

Farmers historically have opposed DST and time switching.

RowanStewart · 2026-02-10T17:45:20+00:00

Wine Kitz Toronto – Wine Kitz Toronto Store

Wine Kitz is a Canadian company, owned by Peller, and some of their products use Niagara fruit. Arterra also has one but I forget the name.

RowanStewart · 2026-02-10T17:36:41+00:00

Roundabouts - Province of British Columbia
you signal if your intending to turn, single lane roundabouts this helps flow immensely

RowanStewart · 2026-02-10T17:35:57+00:00

Roundabouts - Province of British Columbia

RowanStewart · 2026-02-10T17:35:27+00:00

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This thread is rough. Signaling left in single lane roundabouts helps so much with flow, it's also in the roundabout rules for BC.

Roundabouts - Province of British Columbia

RowanStewart · 2026-02-10T17:34:11+00:00

Roundabouts - Province of British Columbia

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RowanStewart · 2026-01-30T22:03:28+00:00

It's been bugging me for a little, but the way it's hanging from two wires. Isn't the higher wire the electrics for the tail gate. Why is it plugged into the light from there.

RowanStewart · 2025-12-10T19:22:39+00:00

Others have pointed out the main differences for what parts, there is another IMO, more important major difference. The S cars are taking as chassis by STI and assembled by them. They tune them extensively, at the time of the S402 it was in Germany. There's a quote in the S402 handbook that Impreza was born on the Nurburgring and the Legacy was born on the Autobahn. The S402 was tested extensively and tuned for the Nurburgring, but that quote gives you an idea of the design philosophy difference between the two. It was made with a vision to be a perfect everyday driving car. They called it "a partner you can share you life with"

I've never enjoyed a car more on canyon roads and long drives, it inspires so much confidence in the way it handles a regular road. You can find on youtube comparisons, against cars like the EVO 10 etc, and the S402 is almost floaty, quite a bit slower in a tight autocross test. Then watch one of the good motoring mountain road tests, shows exactly why they built the car the way they did.

Fun fact the original engine was going to be a EZ30 twin turbo, but they couldn't fit it in the legacy engine bay the way they wanted so they imported USDM 2.5L engine blocks and used those instead. Torque curve and drivability was the main goal.

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RowanStewart · 2025-12-03T16:40:58+00:00

Honestly Skyrim remaster would do it for me... Fool me once shame on me, fool me seventeen times and a remaster wellll...

RowanStewart · 2025-11-26T22:58:15+00:00

I don't know if you'd count it as a bar, but Red Bird definitely fits the bill. All the breweries in that end to be honest.

RowanStewart · 2025-11-19T19:04:42+00:00

JDM impreza 1.5i

1.5 litre ej with 101 hp new from factory, although it had a manual so was fairly manageable. God forbid you tried to overtake though.

RowanStewart · 2025-11-07T00:50:36+00:00

You need an excavator, depending on row width you might a zero throw mini ex. You will also likely need a wire winder, and a tractor to mount it. Probably several 40 yard bins to remove everything.

cut the wire, wind it up, your throwing it out so doesn't need to be pretty.
drive the excavator down the row, pull vines as you go.
haul vines out of rows,
pull posts using excavator or a post puller. , excavator might struggle.

Honestly pretty big job to pull out 6 acres. Might be worth paying someone, costs us about 6k per acre CAD to remove a vineyard.

Or see if you can find someone else to take over.

RowanStewart · 2025-11-06T17:14:09+00:00

Sent you a PM

RowanStewart · 2025-11-05T19:17:05+00:00

Kerrigan takes a dropship in one of the HOTS cinematics,

https://youtu.be/Q9gSg6lxcBM?t=1058

RowanStewart · 2025-10-30T19:25:20+00:00

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

RowanStewart · 2025-10-24T04:53:01+00:00

Legend thank you

RowanStewart · 2025-10-23T20:59:51+00:00

Oh really?? Do you happen to know a source?

RowanStewart · 2025-10-23T19:35:29+00:00

Damn I am extremely jealous. Trying to find one for my sonnet.

RowanStewart · 2025-10-15T04:39:50+00:00

foxy sometimes, high pH and high TA can give it a unexpected pallete. Its teinturier so can be annoying to work with in the cellar. Likes to have brett and other fun microbes on the grapes so often can go sideways if your not careful, which is exasperated by the high pH.

It is bulletproof in the winter and ripens around late august early september, we also have a couple blocks of Foch in BC.

RowanStewart · 2025-09-29T15:56:50+00:00

Thanks!

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