Spot and I are on holiday, but the weather isn't exactly conducive to camping, o we've filled the last week and a half in other ways...
We picked 15lbs of brambles (blackberries for those outside Scotland) over a couple of days last week. Most is now fermenting into wine - 4.5 gallons at the moment! A tub has been reserved in the freezer for later in the year.
We also have 5 gallons of Cabernet Sauvigon from a kit fermenting too. That's the third kit wine we've done - the first 2 being demijohns (i.e. 1 gallons)...it's amazing what you can pick up in a health food shop in Stirling these days...The first 2 gallons turned out so well we thought we'd give a larger quantity a try. Apparently wine is better made in larger quantities.
Once the wines are finished, we're going to turn water into beer. We bought a kit from the same shop as the wine kit. All we need is 40 pint bottles...we're half way there already!!!
We started this wine/beer making malarkey as we were having a clear out to turn one of our spare rooms into my study. In the process of this, we "rediscovered" the array of wine making kit we bought a couple of years back. I say rediscovered as we hadn't forgotten about it, just not used it. The way I say it was we either used the kit or got rid of it - hence the start of our new "hobby".
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