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|    George Pope to Joe Mackey    |
|    Little old wine maker (was: freemake, er    |
|    21 Jan 22 16:05:24    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.0 5a666084       REPLY: 1:135/392 b6f1cb69       TZUTC: -0800       CHARSET: LATIN-1       > 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. . .              --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305 330       SEEN-BY: 134/100 138/146 153/105 135 141 757 7715 221/6 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 206 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 664 700 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 266/512 267/67 275/100 1000 280/464 282/1038 292/854 301/1       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/11 200 396/45 633/280 640/1321       SEEN-BY: 712/848 3634/12       PATH: 153/757 7715 229/426           |
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