baymule
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I will have to try my hand at wine making in the future. My taste in wine runs about as far as a box of wine from the supermarket once or twice a year. I wouldn't know fine wine from root beer. 
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digitS'
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Well, that's me too, Bay.
I once took about 3 years of home wine-making "fiddling" - trying to come up with kind of a garden-variety wine. First, it was tree fruits and I made peary and apple cider. When I seemed to be making an okay apple cider (we won't talk about the peary), I went on to some other things. Using grapes seemed to be too easy.
Bonk! What was I thinking? If I wanted good and drinkable wine, why not go with what was "easy?" Most of what I accomplished was barely drinkable and I never did find out if grape wine could be made "easily."
Beer - I made some pretty good beer. Heaven help me if I'd gotten it into my head that I should be growing all the ingredients.
Steve
I once took about 3 years of home wine-making "fiddling" - trying to come up with kind of a garden-variety wine. First, it was tree fruits and I made peary and apple cider. When I seemed to be making an okay apple cider (we won't talk about the peary), I went on to some other things. Using grapes seemed to be too easy.
Bonk! What was I thinking? If I wanted good and drinkable wine, why not go with what was "easy?" Most of what I accomplished was barely drinkable and I never did find out if grape wine could be made "easily."
Beer - I made some pretty good beer. Heaven help me if I'd gotten it into my head that I should be growing all the ingredients.
Steve
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My cousin's DH used to be big into winemaking. It was awful. He "gifted" my parents with a case of wine with a special label for their anniversary. They gave it all away because it was too bad to drink. I think all the recipients poured out their bottles too. At least the maker thought it was good, and that's what counts, right?
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Lots of families in Korea make their own wine, but it is VERY different.
It actually has grapes in it. I mean, whole, round grapes. Not just floating, but from top to bottom. And it is wine with alcohol and all. Tastes like, between wine and grape juice, oh, and it is very very sweet.
Hleyeueng Ylyee No sometimes pulled out the jug. Now, their jars made what some folks call a magnum look small. I guess the glass jar was 2 and a half gallons. I think hers was the best. Funny though, one thinks of drinking wine with dinner. Korean homemade wine is more like eaten as part of the meal. The top of the jar opens like a soup pot, it's as wide as the jar. A glass is dipped into it and is poured into the drinking glass.
She told me that some families make a similar wine from what I could make out as her describing, prunes. Her voice went to that normal not emotional, but part of the descriptive expression of Korean, a growl hiss sound, a form of mild contempt, when she described it. I did see some prune trees there with prunes that looked to be half green gage, half prune. Can you imagine prune wine with actual prunes in it top to bottom?
I'd guess that the 38th parallel at camp casey was something like zone 4 or 5, so probably in the even slightly higher hills there'd be no grapes growing, and the tough gage prunes could grow.
It actually has grapes in it. I mean, whole, round grapes. Not just floating, but from top to bottom. And it is wine with alcohol and all. Tastes like, between wine and grape juice, oh, and it is very very sweet.
Hleyeueng Ylyee No sometimes pulled out the jug. Now, their jars made what some folks call a magnum look small. I guess the glass jar was 2 and a half gallons. I think hers was the best. Funny though, one thinks of drinking wine with dinner. Korean homemade wine is more like eaten as part of the meal. The top of the jar opens like a soup pot, it's as wide as the jar. A glass is dipped into it and is poured into the drinking glass.
She told me that some families make a similar wine from what I could make out as her describing, prunes. Her voice went to that normal not emotional, but part of the descriptive expression of Korean, a growl hiss sound, a form of mild contempt, when she described it. I did see some prune trees there with prunes that looked to be half green gage, half prune. Can you imagine prune wine with actual prunes in it top to bottom?
I'd guess that the 38th parallel at camp casey was something like zone 4 or 5, so probably in the even slightly higher hills there'd be no grapes growing, and the tough gage prunes could grow.
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digitS'
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Here is how a neighbor cans grape juice: Ridiculously Easy Home-Canned Grape Juice (link)
I thought it might not be the most nutritious way to do it but his family can an enormous amount of juice each year: tomato, apple and grape.
Other than sweet corn, it seems to be a primary purpose for gardening. I think, they may also can raspberry juice.
Steve
I thought it might not be the most nutritious way to do it but his family can an enormous amount of juice each year: tomato, apple and grape.
Other than sweet corn, it seems to be a primary purpose for gardening. I think, they may also can raspberry juice.
Steve
