Bored with the mundane daily routine, and looking for something more exciting, I've taken up making wine at home. Sure, it's a slow process, but the excitement is already brewing.
So to speak...
I've got a book, and an equipment kit, and lots of patience. I think I've done just about every conceivable thing wrong with this first batch of plum wine (fruit from the trees in my back yard of course). Ah well... the wee little yeasty beasties are gurgling and burbling and bubbling away next to the deep freeze.
"Grow my little minions, grow!"
It seems to be pretty easy: obtain fruit, squish, add very sugary water, add yeast, wait. "Rack" the wine into a "carboy" (wine makers seem very pretentious about what they call their activities & equipment), rack again, and then again, and once more. Bottle and wait again.
Lots of waiting, not really doing anything. Seems like a good pastime for someone who's grown bored of the day to day routine.
Maybe I should've gotten a job instead.
Comments (3)
You're not going to turn into one of those wine snobs, are you?
Posted by Jo | August 17, 2004 7:51 PM
Posted on August 17, 2004 19:51
Perhaps you will Michael, but only once every 4 months when the wine is actually ready . . . Then you'll be like a proud grandmother with pictures of her grandkids but she's a drunk grandmother, cause she's showing off her wine, which she poured into her purse, so she could take it anywhere to show people, and brag, but be drunk and sticky cause it would spill being kept in a purse and incoherant from trying to read THE LONGEST RUN-ON SENTENCEC EVER POSTED ABOUT A DRUNK, STICKY, PURSE FULL OF SLOSHING WINE GRANDMOMMA THAT EVER EXSISTED!!!! BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. . . . BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Posted by Nathan | August 18, 2004 12:23 AM
Posted on August 18, 2004 00:23
Steady on, Mister Groin...
Posted by ben | August 18, 2004 10:22 AM
Posted on August 18, 2004 10:22