Winemaking Notes

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This year we are pressing DeChaunac and Foch for a blush wine or you may add a grape bag to the juice to make it a red wine.

Eastern white juice is a blend of concord, delaware or other native grapes (sometimes this juice could have a slight blush to it.)

Our white hybrid blend is a mix of white hybrid grapes.

Wine making juice is sold in 5 gallon plastic pails with a plastic liner. (Pail exchange required) These pails are held in a freezer until you pick them up. This insures that you receive the highest quality juice that has not already started to ferment.

Large amounts of grapes are quite easy to pick and you get the best price. Most pickers (depending on variety) can pick from 1 to 2 or more bushels per hour. Bring your friends and get quantity discounts.

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Grape Pails (or grape bags)
Make Red Wine the Easy Way!
Grape pails are a plastic pail, with a nylon stainer bag in it, tied with a loose knot, filled with crushed and de-stemmed grapes and quickly frozen. These grape bags may be added to grape juice to add color and body resulting in a red wine, or just used by themselves. They are very handy when you do not have a press - just squeeze them by hand or let them drain - And the strainer bags are re-useable!

Blush wines are becoming very popular. A blush wine is made by using light red grape juice such as Foch or DeChaunac or adding red grapes to a white juice. Think White Zinfandel!

Grape crushing facilities are now available!
We have established an outside area back by our barn where you may crush and de-stem your own grapes. You provide your own pails and buckets and crush the grapes yourselves, we provide the crusher-stemmer and a hose for clean up. We are not responsible for spilled grapes or juice.
Cost .05/lb.

Honey Farm Notes

Bulk Raw Honey Price
Same as last year - $1.50/lb

Good News ... When you experience the fragrance of a field of wildflowers or an orchard in full bloom, envision this captured in a jar of our pure Michigan honey. The aroma emanates from the nectar in each flower. The bees collect this sweet nectar, return it to the hive and remove the excess moisture. This distilled nectar is honey! Because of the variety of clovers, trees, wildflowers and vegetables that grow in Michigan, our bees produce a honey of exceptional quality. We then extract, lightly strain, and package the honey into the many fine products marketed by Honeyflow Farm.

Observation Hive ... Did you ever wonder where the honeybees put all that nectar in those wooden boxes (hives) that beekeepers use? Our observation hive has plastic sides, safely keeping the honeybees in, while you watch them storing pollen and nectar. Sometimes you may even see the queen bee laying eggs. Come see nature at work.

Bring your own containers and we will fill them from our 50 gallon barrel. $1.50 lb. for any amount. New two gallon pails are now available for sale at the vineyard for bulk raw honey. (Holds 24 lbs)

Wildflower Honey ... Our wildflower honey has been warmed only to 135 degrees. Many large packers filter and heat at much higher temperatures to retain a longer shelf life. We prefer a more natural product that may only stay liquid for three to six months.

Creamed Honey ... Creamed honey is made by a special blending process developed many years ago. Pure natural honey is seeded with finely ground granulated honey under controlled conditions. The honey quickly solidifies into a smooth consistency, a delicious topping for biscuits or toast. We offer cinnamon and apricot creamed honey in addition to our standard creamed honey.

Beeswax Candles ... We make Hand-dipped 100% Pure beeswax candles every winter. Each candle has been dipped 20 to 30 times into melted beeswax. Beeswax candles emit a distinctive scent and are longer burning. We produce more than 100 types of candles. Visit our on-line Candle Shop at www.honeyflowfarm.com to view our candle selection.