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Re: Fast and Cheap wine?

Well, I bought the Kool-aid and all to try this exquisite

> wine recipe. I bought strawberry kool-aid. I am going for > "Chateau Trailer Park de Strawberry Hill" > One of my beer brewing friends is married to a French lady. > She loves good wine, but she also has a taste for Boones > Farm Strawberry Hill. She will be the one whom I test it > on, hehehehe But, with no warning about the recipe. > I hope to get it going tonight.

If you are seriously going to brew this stuff, be aware that without the Kool-Aid you are brewing up mash that would be the input to a moonshine sill as described in amazingstill.com.

When I was in the Navy about 40 years ago, some good ole boys from Tennessee brewed this in the barracks because there was no fire needed and it was reasonably odorous. They used a plastic-lined garbage can with a hole in the lid and a piece of fine mesh coving the hole. They used pop rivets to fasten the mesh to the lid. They used bakers' yeast because that was all they had available and they added yeast daily until a yeast smell was barely noticeable. My recollection is that it took at least two weeks. The Kool-Aid was my idea because I found the yeast taste to be repugnant.

If Mad Dog 20/20 comes in Strawberry, you may want them to taste that first so the Chateau Trail Park does not overwhelm them.

Dick

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Dick Adams
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Oh no! The main I deal is to overwhelm the little French lady with the repugnant Chateau Trailer Park! She is very straight forward and exercises no tact when telling you what she thinks. I am looking forward to her comments, hehehehe

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Johnny Mc

I may use a Champaign yeast so it ferments out dry and high in alcohol. I can add a little honey if fermentation slows or stops. My brewing friend is a commercial beekeeper, so I get honey for $1.50 per pound ;o) Then I can add Sweet-n-Low to sweeten it to taste, then bottle and force CO2 to add the tiny bubbles.

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Johnny Mc

I get honey for $1.50 a pound if I buy 60 lbs and I drive to Dutch Gold Honey in Lancaster, PA. But putting honey in this like putting a three piece suit on a skid row bum.

E-mail me at snipped-for-privacy@aol.com telling me where you live, etc.

Dick

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Dick Adams

I may add 50 cents worth, hehehe

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Johnny Mc

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