Re: [bolger] Re:homemade wine for homemade boats?

Wine making the easy way.

one 12 oz can of concentrated grape juice (the non-frozen type)

4 cups sugar

Wine Yeast (cooking yeast will work, but not as good)

1 gallon plastic milk jug (cleaned with bleach)

1 balloon

Put the three ingredients into the jug and fill with water to about 2" from top.

Turn and rotate to mix.

Put balloon on top.

Keep at room temp.

After 3 weeks, siphon off the good stuff. (Or pour gently leaving the dregs on the bottom.) Re-clean the jug.

Put the wine back into the jug and re-balloon it.

You can judge the fermentation by the size of the balloon.

Drink when you feel like it.

This makes a sweet wine that is somewhat bubbly.

> What you need is a homemade wine for a

homemade boat. I recently

>made 32 bottles of a homebrewed

Cabernet. I spent months slaving over

>it. mixing the yeast,

fermenting, cleaning, bottling, turning the

>bottles every 20 days,

keeping them in a cool place. I treated the

>batch of bottles like

babies.

> A month ago, I opened the first of many

bottles to see how the

>finished product was. . . In one word "terrible".

It had great body, a

>dirt flavor, an offensive nose, and a digustingly

long aftertaste.

>There was no food to offer it a compliment, just an

insult.

> I sent it to a friend of mine who is a highly

respected vintner and

>he tried to "fix" it. In turn, he sent it off to

some labs. They

>still could not fix it. It was completely and

utterly undrinkable.

> This concoction was slaved over,

loved, caressed, and treated like

>a new child; yet, it still was just

plain awful. The only thing it

>was good for would be "Christening a

ship".

> You would have a very expensive, well loved

wine. That serves no

>purpose other than that of love.

Poisiden may have been offended

>however. It is not nice to mess

with the Gods of the sea. . .

> Fortunately, my wife

made me dump the whole mess with the promise

>that she would let me try

again. Unlike boatbuilding, you cannot

>cover up your mistakes in

winemaking. Bad juice is bad juice.

>
> My

advise. . . .Get some fresh Vermont cheddar cheese, fresh

>apples,

and a bagette of bread. Compliment them with nice 1998 (98 was

>a good

year for Santa Barbara Valley Wines)cabernet from the Santa

>Barbara area

of California served in proper glasses, stemmed, not too

>wide at the top,

filled only half way or less. Have a picnic in the

>cockpit of your new boat, and toast your first mate (wife or

labrador

>retriever, your pick)! "Accidentally", spill a drop or two

in the

>motor well where it can be neatly washed off into a happy waiting

sea.

> No Gods would be offended by the

charity you have shown, and the

>respect you have given to a proper

wine.

>
>> Very, Very nice; With Peter's idea of filling a

good wine bottle,

>and
>> Paul Esterle's ceremony, people

will not only think I have good

>taste,
>> But think of me

as intelligent as well.

>> Stan, Snow

Goose

>>
>> PS; Paul, No, not in advertising, I just

want to be able to write

>like
>> Peter L. when I grow up.

;-)

>
>
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