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.
Joe
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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. . .

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