Orange Rhymer
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CHOO CHOO...
Wine - or, what your favorite smelly grape water says about you.
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My only requirements for wine are for Reds to be so full bodied you practically have to eat them and for Whites to be so dry you need a little drink afterwards.
Whatthefuck
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Good ol two buck Chuck. Can't go wrong.
WonderWino
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The best wine ever made is obvious wonder wine
As far as I know they don't sell it anymore but it used to be in every grocery store in the 90s. Its basically a wine mix that you put in a 2L soda bottle with some sugar and then left to ferment next to a heat source for 2 weeks. and by that I mean those were the literal instructions it came with in the box
The best part? Since it didn't contain any alcohol until it was fermented it was legal to sell to minors. It was very popular in all the high schools and even a few of the elementary schools. kids made pretty decent money by selling homemade liquor made from this stuff for high school parties and shit
Cause I mean really, thats what everyone wants to drink right? Shady wine mixes fermented in soda bottles by idiot high school kids. What could possibly go wrong. I saw batches that make prison pruno look and taste like champagne
As far as I know they don't sell it anymore but it used to be in every grocery store in the 90s. Its basically a wine mix that you put in a 2L soda bottle with some sugar and then left to ferment next to a heat source for 2 weeks. and by that I mean those were the literal instructions it came with in the box
The best part? Since it didn't contain any alcohol until it was fermented it was legal to sell to minors. It was very popular in all the high schools and even a few of the elementary schools. kids made pretty decent money by selling homemade liquor made from this stuff for high school parties and shit
Cause I mean really, thats what everyone wants to drink right? Shady wine mixes fermented in soda bottles by idiot high school kids. What could possibly go wrong. I saw batches that make prison pruno look and taste like champagne
Orange Rhymer
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I think WonderWine is dead. I like brewing, found a blog referencing the site (13 years ago). Got a 404...
;_;7
Here's a vid of a Scotsman making some about 11 years ago. Turn on captions for a hilarious auto-translation of his thick accent.
Orange Rhymer
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Thanks for the
rip WonderWine you will (not) be missed.
Home made alcohol is always an amazing experiment. I make rose hip wine every so often and it's amazing. I mean you can clean silver with it, remove paint, degrease engine parts AND get pissed all with one handy bottle.
Orange Rhymer
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I agree that "WonderWine" is alcohol. Sure-as-shit isn't wine.
I brew beer. I don't dump sugar, water, yeast and flavoring into a bottle.
Hell, ethanol based hand sanitizer is pretty common now. I think I know how WonderWine lost it's market share.
This is the polar opposite of WonderWine, best kit I've made. Think it's no longer available though.
I grow my own hops. That's pointless effort right there.
Orange Rhymer
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I tried that. Got free cuttings- rhizomes from the USDA. a decade ago. They died.
Hops were hard for me.
USDA doesn't give free rhizomes/seeds anymore. Being REAL assholes.
See here in jolly old England we ussed to have things called Beerhouses which were basically pubs that were only licensed to sell beer, and usually brewed it themselves. This being barley country, and there being a very large maltings just down the road from me, most of the Beerhouses round here had small hop gardens. Hops not being noted for staying where they're put, when we moved here every hedgerow and fence line was choked with them. I simply strung some wires and moved a few rhizomes.
Where I live, muscadine vines are everywhere, along with honeysuckle. The grapes are a lot more resistant to weather & pests, but typically have a lower yield. A lot of folks make their own, and I've run into honeysuckle brandy a few times too (dangerous shit).
Muscadine wine is very sweet, but usually higher octane (almost pushing into schnapps territory), than something comparable like a Moscato. This means it makes for an excellent schorle (50/50 wine & soda/mineral water).
Muscadine wine is very sweet, but usually higher octane (almost pushing into schnapps territory), than something comparable like a Moscato. This means it makes for an excellent schorle (50/50 wine & soda/mineral water).
Orange Rhymer
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Lucky fucker.
What kind of hops. or 'mystery' ?
Likely just the common wild hop which is more or less like Goldings but with smaller flowers. They're still good fat flowers though.
I don't usually drink wine most of the time but I had a phase where I'd buy an inexpensive bottle ($9-$20 max depending on what caught my eye at the moment) and drink the whole thing in one sitting with some sort of overpriced lunch (usually a French sandwich with some kind of side dish) in Manhattan on days that I felt like writing. Dry reds were my favorite when I used to do that but it was done very casually so I still know fuck all about wine as a whole. I kind of miss that sort of boozing but the way I did it isn't really feasible under current conditions.
Orange Rhymer
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I don't drink wine EXCEPT:
I fucking LOVE Moet Chandon champagne. I could drink 2 bottles alone. Yes. Expensive obsession.
I typically temper that love with shitty American brands
I like pear wines (few) and love apple wines (only Normandy apples, sparkling preferred).
Other than that - I can enjoy a Riesling, a Port (with cheese board, pls) and a few dry Reds.
Wines give me headaches (the tannins)
Beer please.
I fucking LOVE Moet Chandon champagne. I could drink 2 bottles alone. Yes. Expensive obsession.
I typically temper that love with shitty American brands
I like pear wines (few) and love apple wines (only Normandy apples, sparkling preferred).
Other than that - I can enjoy a Riesling, a Port (with cheese board, pls) and a few dry Reds.
Wines give me headaches (the tannins)
Beer please.
My wife bless her massively over estimated the amount of champagne our wedding guests would drink when kegs of ale were on offer as well leaving us burdened with about 14 bottles post event. This led to a memorable evening with myself and two mates, and three big bendy straws.
Bad news everyone, I've gotten into sherry. I'm pretty sure this is the last message you'll ever read that was written while I was sober.
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