• Little old wine maker (was: freemake, ereaders, Z-Lib)

    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to GEORGE POPE on Thu Jan 20 05:19:50 2022
    CP wrote --

    Is okay, we've got many gallons of home-made fruit wine stashed away under the stairs

    My mother once got into wine making at home. (She wasn't a wine
    drinker).
    She would use concentrated frozen grape juice as a base and added this,
    that ant the other as the recipe called for.
    That was really nasty tasting stuff. But everyone told her how good it
    was so she would make more of it.
    Not to hurt her feelings they accepted it and then poured it down the
    drain later. :)
    After a few months the novelty wore off and she found something else as
    a hobby.
    Joe
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  • From George Pope@1:153/757 to Joe Mackey on Fri Jan 21 16:05:24 2022
    CP wrote --
    Is okay, we've got many gallons of home-made fruit wine stashed away under
    the stairs
    My mother once got into wine making at home. (She wasn't a wine
    drinker).
    She would use concentrated frozen grape juice as a base and added this,
    that ant the other as the recipe called for.
    That was really nasty tasting stuff. But everyone told her how good it
    was so she would make more of it.
    Not to hurt her feelings they accepted it and then poured it down the
    drain later. :)
    After a few months the novelty wore off and she found something else as
    a hobby.

    My ewife's uses an old family recipe from up in the boonies of Quebec & is based mosdtly only on the key things: fruit
    sugar
    the right kind of yeast
    stirring the sludge daily (oranges made a wine that bubbled violently in the fermenter! It wasn't sparkling once opured & corked, but was POTENT(think tequila, but a wee bit fruitier))

    A little dab'll do ya! I'm happy with just a shot or two at a time of any of them, for sipping all evening on a cold winter's night. . .

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