Old Mother Ashby > wrote in news:4461816b$0$16018
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> LucasP wrote:
>
>>Got the still going at the moment, trying to regulate the water to
keep
>>it at an even 90-91c. Going to start making the spirits for the party
in
>>August :-)
>>
>>And have just put on a batch of 'monkey blood' aka Australian Shiraz.
>>Funny thing is, the Canuks take our grapes over there, process them
and
>>then sell it back to us so that we can brew it up at home!! And it
works
>>out cheaper, too!! I end up with 30 bottles of Shiraz for $77 = $2.50
a
>>bottle!! Apparently, it's pretty good after about 6 months bottle age.
>>
>>
>>I got the Vintners Reserve Australian Shiraz
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/h4l79
>>
>>
>>
> You're going to *brew* wine? Methinks you've already been sampling the
> finished product more than is good for you at this time of day.
PFFFFFFFT!!!! Don't knock it till you try it, Ol'Ma'Ash.
Besides......... how the *hell* do you think they get wine anyway??!!
They *brew* it (ie, ferment it).
>
> I suppose I should be careful what I say since I have never tasted
this
> stuff,
'Be careful'....... *now*?? Too frikken late!!
>but then it seems neither have you.
I have tasted plenty of wine........ it has all gone thru' the same
process that I am doing at the moment. You're obviously a non-wine
drinker?
>It sounds disgusting.
So does sucking the viscous fluid out of a sheeps eyeball...... but it's
not that bad when you get your head around it!!
>
> As for being cheaper, there is a glut of grapes at the moment. $77
would
> probably buy you a truckload or three.
And *where* exactly, am I going to process approx 6tonne of grapes?
*And* store the juice while it ferments, *and* clean it out, *and* then
bottle approx 6500 bottles???
(All figures plucked out of my bum, BTW, but you get what I mean, don't
you?)
>Plenty of people make their own
> wine without resorting to importing "concentrate" from Canada.
PIFFLE!!
I want to make 30 bottles, and if it is good (as I am quite sure it will
be), I want to make 30 more, then 30 more.
Then that will be enough for the party in August.
Then, if it's good stuff, as I assume it will be........ I'll progress
to making other wines. Whites, coolers, fortifieds etc, etc.
>
> Chacun a son gout!
Eggzackrey. Don't knock it till you've tried it!!
--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia
At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.
Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915