I cobbed a little of the Ethiopian and a little of both of the GT x Thai Stick crosses. It’s a great way to turn fluffy bud into densely packed bud, and seems to give it a nice flavour cure- so I’ll dry some of that out in the next few weeks and have an early sample.
With both of the GTx’s in the drying box there was no room for the Ethiopian so I hung it in my wine storage room for a slow dry. Not a smelly plant so I can get away with it being there. In fact I’m not sure most people would even recognize what the plant even is, if they stumbled upon it. Just a bunch of lemon scented fluff... some strange sort of fennel-like herb maybe...
I think with a little toasting in the oven decarb it will make a good wine flavour.
I figured out that the wine I made from decarbed bid is much tastier than the batch made from raw bud. Which makes sense. The cooked bud has more of a sort of mellow nutty toasted flavour while the raw stuff is astringent and dank.
All I used to make the wine was a basic mix of sugar, bud, and wine yeast. With some wines I add tannins or citric acid to tweak the flavour- but I didn’t add anything in that case.
I keep trying to update things here but have been running all over chasing the salmon that are coming up the rivers now, picking plums and blackberries, wild currants, cranberries and mushrooms, and working a little. The girlfriend has me busy and I haven’t had those late night hours I used to spend on the forum. But that’s life- changeable. I am woefully behind on a bunch of stuff here and apologize to those people I haven’t replied to, journals dropped, etc etc.