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Our first stainless steel fermenter

By Jeff on Sunday, June 15th, 2014

  It’s exciting to be able to announce the arrival of our first piece of professional-grade equipment- a 300 liter Italian-made stainless steel fermenter!     I have 14 gallons of dandelion and lilac wine fermenting in it right now, giving it a test run.  We don’t have the building finished yet, or the licenses to […]

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Gita and I making a batch of mulberry wine in our kitchen –Summer 2006

By Jeff on Thursday, May 29th, 2014

When Urban Forage Winery and Cider House opens we will: Source our fruit locally and sustainably: We plan to gather fruit from urban apple trees and raspberry bushes.  We hope to intercept useable but not saleable fruit from food co-ops and natural food stores that would otherwise go to waste and ferment it into something […]