Archive for December, 2004

Dec 31 2004

Australian Cabernet Shiraz

Published by didj under Vitner's Notes

Selection International Wine Series Premium Wine kit (15 liters (4 Gallons) Sterile Juice and Concentrate).

  • Starting Specific Gravity 1.110 (!)
  • 1/3 Gallon boiled Annandale, VA tap water added to carbouy to dissolve Bentonite
  • 1/3 Gallon Brita filtered Annandale, VA tap water added
  • Premier Cuvee Active Dry Wine Yeast used
  • Cylinder Lock 2 piece Airlock Utilized
    Not a lot of extra liquid added to this one… and it shows in the SG. While the yield will be smaller than previous batches, I hope to make up for it with a high alcohol content and some really pronounced flavors. I love a good Cab Shiraz. I hope this will be a great one.

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    Dec 25 2004

    it’s the new style…

    Published by didj under General

    Announcing the redesign of my blog… something that I have wanted to do for a while now. I haven’t been bloging for quite some time - basically once those rat-bastard spammers started hitting my comments. Very upsetting stuff. So I did a little bit of research (a very little bit - b/c I hit a great site on my first visit… Combat Comment Spam ). That site has some great information on tweaking wordpress to allude spammers, and a whole bunch of links for plugins and the like. The main change that I made (that I think is doing some real good) is to change the number of hyper-links that can be included in comments. The default in Wordpress is 5 - something that the spammers take advatage of… They like to get alot of links in. I dropped that number down to 1, so if you want to include more than one link in a comment, be patient - I will have to approve it manually. Also, I added a bunch of words to the spam-words list (like poker, and prescriptions)… and will be tweaking that as I go along… Long story short, if your comment does not show up immediately, I will approve it as soon as I can. And I highly recommend checking out the site mentioned above - wordpress has some pretty fancy settings that you can play around with, and tamba (or is it Podz?) does a great job explaining them (and is a super nice person to boot - thanks again!). So happy blogging folks, and I hope to see y’all real soon.

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