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  • Re: Barrel Vault in So. Cal.

    Laurentis

    Yeah it's funny how these hobbies go. I think guys crazy enough to build an oven are predisposed to try other crazy stuff like brining olives, wine making, etc.

    Camarillo is on the coast on the northern side of southern California. Sixty miles north of LA, thirty miles south of Santa Barbara. So we are very much in the right area for olives and wine. I have a big olive tree on my property that has been there since the early 1960's, and I planted six more a couple years ago to provide a screen from the street going by my house. I haven't done anything with the fruit yet but I will sometime.

    The nearest big wine growning region is the hills inland from Santa Barbara (Santa Ynez apppellation) about sixty miles from here, but vineyards are going in over much of rural foothill regions of coastal and southern Central California. My friend's winery is in Santa Ynez. We are going to run the fruit I bought through his crusher/destemmer into a picking bin which I will use as my fermentation vessel. We'll put it in a truck or trailer with a forklift and I'll drive it back to my place to ferment it there on the skins. Then I'll press it roughly two weeks later and put in oak for a couple years. I'm hopeful that it will be drinkable. I'm using the same fruit and yeasts that my buddy is using for the wines he's selling to be poured in restaurants around Santa Barbara. We'll see.

    I also put in fifty pinot noir vines last spring and they're doing very well. No fruit for a couple more years though. There are a couple small vineyards nearby so I think the vines will produce good fruit. We are about seven miles from the ocean in a slightly hilly area, but we are close enough that we get a pretty strong ocean influence with afternoon breezes and frequent low cloud cover. As a result the only grapes that will reliably ripen before winter rains are probablly pinot noir and chardonnay. So thats what I planted.

    Where in Japan are you?

    Bill
    Last edited by WJW; 10-22-2012, 10:51 AM.

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    • Re: Barrel Vault in So. Cal.

      Hi Bill,

      Thats sounds intense and that you are on you way to a new career in the near future? I'm in Chiba prefecture, a coastal town(Kamogawa-shi), two hours south of Tokyo, by train. If use Google map you can find it, on my iPad(find my ipad), I can see in the satellite view, my house, oven, stacks of wood, everything. Well its 5:48am here and my pastrami has been smoking for 2 hours, will wrap it in foil and slow cook 4-6 hours more.

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        Finally finished the counter-top after a two year break.


        http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/phot.../1_oven146.jpg

        http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/phot.../1_oven147.jpg

        I've apparently forgotten how to post pics.
        Last edited by WJW; 10-28-2014, 12:19 PM.

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          Welcome back Bill!!

          How's your bread baking going.. Pictures Please..


          Chris

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          • Re: Barrel Vault in So. Cal.

            Thanks for the welcome Chris.

            Haven't baked in a few months. And now just found out my starter was put in the dishwasher by our cleaning lady.

            Need to get a new one going so I can bake some bread for Thanksgiving.

            Bill

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              LOL on the cleaning lady mix-up, if you don't know what it is, it sure looks like something that doesn't belong in the fridge.

              C

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              • Re: Barrel Vault in So. Cal.

                Originally posted by WJW View Post
                Finally finished the counter-top after a two year break.


                http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/phot.../1_oven146.jpg

                http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/phot.../1_oven147.jpg

                I've apparently forgotten how to post pics.
                What happen to the ash dump? I was planning on making one, do you recommend it or was it a waist of time when you did it?
                Best Regards...
                Gugahulk!

                My Build...

                http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f6/w...-fl-21793.html


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                BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME
                Food will always be the best way to spend time with family & friends, and that is all that really matters.
                STOP THINKING ABOUT IT AND DO IT!

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                  Let me know if I should include an ashtray on my base or is it a waist of time?
                  Best Regards...
                  Gugahulk!

                  My Build...

                  http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f6/w...-fl-21793.html


                  **************************************************
                  BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME
                  Food will always be the best way to spend time with family & friends, and that is all that really matters.
                  STOP THINKING ABOUT IT AND DO IT!

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                    Love your build, I have a few questions for you. Maybe you can help me with my build. Where did you buy the isolation board under your oven? Also where did you buy the inswool ceramic fiber caulking putty? I am following your lead as I think you have one of the best insulated oven in the forum. Your help would be great. Thanks in advance.
                    Best Regards...
                    Gugahulk!

                    My Build...

                    http://www.fornobravo.com/forum/f6/w...-fl-21793.html


                    **************************************************
                    BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME
                    Food will always be the best way to spend time with family & friends, and that is all that really matters.
                    STOP THINKING ABOUT IT AND DO IT!

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