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David In Indy:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 28, 2009, 02:21:46 pm ---It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
Laura, I wonder now that there are so many organic wines available, if they're less headache-ogenic? My local joint has only organic wines on its list.
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My parents made their own wine too back in the 70s. They bought all the equipment and I remember watching it percolate in the big glass bottles. They made all different kinds of wine. Dad still has some of those great big glass bottles sitting around the house.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on April 28, 2009, 01:44:46 pm ---A new yuppie hobby, I guess
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:laugh: ;D
My husband wants to get into this hobby ;D. We have three vines in our garden, two have a more shadow-y place and don't grow fast and only bear little fuit, but the one around the front gate grows like weed and brings plenty of grapes every year. So far the greatest part of the grapes only went to waste, which is a shame.
This year we'll try to make either wine or at least grape-jelly.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 28, 2009, 02:21:46 pm ---It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
Laura, I wonder now that there are so many organic wines available, if they're less headache-ogenic? My local joint has only organic wines on its list.
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It's a little different when you're doing it at a place where they give you the ingredients and guide you through the process. It's easier, anyway. And you don't have a mess at home.
I do know one woman who makes her own plum wine from fruit that grows in her yard. It doesn't taste much like wine, but it's kind of good.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on April 28, 2009, 01:44:46 pm ---I went to a party where the host had made his own wine (they have places where you can go make "homemade" wine, beer, mead, etc. A new yuppie hobby, I guess...) Anyway, his wine was a revelation because in addition to being delicious, there was no headache!! (No preservatives.) Whoo-whee!!
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Home-brewing mead is very popular among medieval historical reenactors. I once bought a kit to try it but never got around to it. By now the yeast is probably dead as a doornail. :-\
A friend once brought me a bottle of mead from a winery somewhere in Indiana. It was one of the best things I've ever drunk! Very light but with a definite taste of the honey. :D
I think home-brewing mead definitely must be an art. I have been served some home-brewed meads that were so thick and syrupy that you might as well have been drinking honey out of a jar. :P
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 28, 2009, 02:21:46 pm ---It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
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Italians in South Philadelphia have been making their own wine for, oh, probably about a hundred years. (I'm not kidding.)
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