Old Mother Ashby > wrote in news:44626d9a$0$15996
:

> LucasP wrote:
>
>>Richard Kaszeta > wrote in
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>>
>>
>>
>>>LucasP > writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Besides......... how the *hell* do you think they get wine
anyway??!!
>>>>
>>>>They *brew* it (ie, ferment it).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>You need to look up the meaning of the word "brew", since brewing and
>>>fermentation are different processing. Heck, if you're being
>>>pedantic, you don't even brew beer, you brew wort, and then ferment
>>>that to become beer.
>>>
>>>I wouldn't touch wine that's been "brewed", or had anything other
than
>>>a brief heat pasteurization (and that's pushing it as well)---the
heat
>>>does too many bad things.
>>>
>>>Rich (who makes his own beer and wine, but never brews wine).
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>Keeerist almighty, but there are some pedantic people out there!!
>>
>>It is home brew wine, made in much the same way as home brew beer.
>>
>>Home brew as we *Aussies* know it.
>>
>>2lt of warm water, stir in some bentonite, add the contents of a 7lt
bag
>>of grape juice concentrate, wash the bag out and fill the container to
>>23lts.
>>When the temp is between 18-24c, sprinkle the yeast over the top,
don't
>>stir, cover and wait for about 7 days for fermentation to cease. Then
>>you proceed with secondary fermentation.
>>
>>That's home "brewing".
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Well, I think that the agricultural colleges can close down the
oenology
> diploma courses right now!


And to think I was actually toying with the idea of doing one of those
courses :-)


>What could be simpler? Even a Brisbanite can
> manage it.


Well, it was made with Canuks in mind, so I think most people in the
world (except for anyone from Texass) would be able to do it ;-P


>
> What's the alcohol content of the finished product?
>


Should be about the same as any normal wine.
Before bottling, the wine has to have a specific gravity of 0.996 or
less. Maybe someone with more intimate knowledge of those sort of things
can let us know what alcohol content that gravity reading will give?



--
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