Re: Home made wine
I remember my aunt and uncle making wine when I stayed with them one summer as a child. They had these massive glass jar things with a little valve in the top that would release a bubble every so often. It was fascinating to watch this live experiment and I could hear the bubbles pop when I was falling asleep in the next room. Goodness knows what they were making it from, I think it was something like redcurrants or some similar berry that they had grown oodles of on their allotment. I never got to taste it but I wasn't too curious at that age.Re: Home made wine
Re: Home made wine
When my wife & I got married in 1970. My new father in law who was a builder, through a contact of his, wangled us a rent free caretakers job in a large house on the East London/Essex borders that was due for demolition. At the back of the house was a large conservatory dominated by just one huge ‘thing’ growing out of one corner! This thing turned out to be a grape vine, which at the appropriate time produced an almighty bumper crop of lovely dark red grapes. By today’s prices, about £300-£400 worth! I had never made wine before although my mother had done so for years. So I split the harvest with her and bought several demijohns and all the other stuff from Boots the chemists and went into production.Re: Home made wine
I used to make 'country wines'. I still have hundreds of recipes for them all. The most potent one I made was from Parsnip - that was absolutely lethal !!!
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