The Wine

This past winter, Brandon decided to try his hand at making wine. Yes, my husband, master of trying all things - decided he wanted to make wine. He bought all the necessary equipment, a few how-to-books, and with a big bag of apples in hand began the process of making wine. Yes, you read right. From apples. You can apparantly use all kinds of fruits to make wine.

About 7 months ago Brandon crushed a HUGE bag of apples in a very large bucket. He added some yeast (I'm sure there was a little more to it than that haha!) and pretty soon the mixture began to froth and bubble! A little while later he transferred the liquid into this glass flask, where he let it sit for 6 months in our garage. Six stinky months. 'Cause yes, sometimes the stick thingy that stuck out of the bucket (to let out fumes) let some big stinkers out. But that's ok. Better in the garage than in my house :).

On Sunday, it was time to remove the wine from the flask and prepare it for bottling! The wine was drained back into the big bucket, and some stuff was added to the mixture to stop it from doing whatever it was doing the past 6 months :) It's all technical stuff that I don't understand. Brandon talks and all I hear is "blah blah, blah blah blah". But if you're really interested in finding out more details, talk to my husband. Cause I won't know the answers. Believe me. Here's what the wine looked like.

Of course Brandon and his buddy DJ had to give the wine a taste. Just for scientific purposes I'm sure. They both seemed to think that it tasted like wine. Good, since that was the goal. One glass boys, that's all you need. Okay, maybe two. Don't push it now!

The wine is now in said bucket, where it will remain for two days. Then it will be time to bottle and label Brandon's first wine...which we are calling "Bimbi Brandon" (a shout out to my grandfather who made wine every year that everyone called "Bimbi Nunnu" - bimbi meaning wine, and Nunnu, well, meaning grandpa). I'll post some more pictures of the finished product. But until then, good job babe!

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