humor - you know you are a true winemaker when.....

I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait."

when... your humor is fermented to dryness

Your neighbors leave their empty wine bottles on your doorstep ....

You shower at the gym. Not because you worked out, but because all of your bathtubs are full of fermenting carboys.

While eating grapes with friends, you're mentally calculating the Brix level in your head.

you have your friends over to help harvest your wine grapes and you weigh them before and after the harvest to see how much they ate and reduced your harvest weight.

You know you are a true winemaker when you tell your wife off for using the bathtub - to wash, the sink to wash up, the scraper for wallpaper, the guestroom for guests and for turning the light on in the attic!!! And she wonders why you spend more time racking wine than with her... Sheesh!!!

Ultimately you know you're a true winemaker when you make lots of wine and try to find jokes about it because you've thought about it in every other way.

...when *every* trip through the kitchen department of a store, SWMBO asks: "do you need that for cooking, or for wine?"

...if you've ever left a farmer's market with a truckload of purchases and none of it is for eating.

...if you've ever been to Home Depot in the trash can section for more than 10 minutes and have flipped over every one to see if it's marked "NSF" on the bottom.

...if you've lamented that nothing from The Pampered Chef is big enough.

Trid

-I might think of more...fun thread :)

You sometimes forget your appointments and others birthday dates, but never forget when the next racking is.

Every trip to the grocery store, you look for fruit that is on sale for possible use.

You are glad when one of your kids move out - so you can store more cases in their closets.

Panic is when you realize you are days away from bottling and somehow all your corks have already been used (I just bought 200 not too long ago...you ponder)

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DAve

Ryan Case wrote:

My spouse shudders when we're at the grocery store and I tell her that a particular fruit is "priced for mead making!" :-D

Cheers, Ken

And What did you find? :-)

Steve

Ford Prefect's belly button lint

..that the gray 30 gallon "Brute" ones are :) I forgot about the rest when I made that find.

Trid

-now, for a place to keep it

Always the thick one I have to ask what does NSF mean? Is it something to do with food grade?

Yes, it used to stand for National Sanitary Foundation, they are sort of like UL in the States, CSA in Canada and CE in Europe but they focus on public health more so than those other organizations. In North America you will see a circle with NSF on any good plumbing hardware for example; if it's not marked, I wouldn't use it. I think they are a spin off of U of Michigan. They are very heavily into the food and water safety business.

And you know you are a winemaker when you knowingly overfill a fermenter, knowing full well the consequences - and pay for your sin the next day with several hours of cleanup...

Joe

You know you are a winemaker when you very carefully calculate the volume so that you are always left with about 3/4 of a bottle left over at bottling time - not full enough to cork so well .......... :)

You know you're a vino when a 30 bottle kit somehow only leaves 20...

Isn't that the way kits work. I thought the reduction was from racking.

When...

You are watching an 'end of the world' style disaster movie and all you can think is "what a waste of wine..." or you grimace in horror imagining millions of elderberries going to waste...