5 pounds of peaches, plums, or apricots3 lemons11 pounds of sugar1 yeast, large5 pounds of white raisins Boil 3 gallons of water & cool off. Dissolve sugar in water and add yeast, cut in lemons and squeeze, put in crock. Add dissolved yeast and fruit in the crock. Put lid on and stir every day …
I generally begin my wine shopping adventures in any number of places. I feel no need to head into the wilds of suburbia to pick up a bottle of cleverly rotted grapes that were grown on a fruit farm. I also have no need to ask the clerk at the store who is usually drinkin’ …
Hot Damn! I seem to be on some sort of trend because this is the second Malbec from 2008 that I’ve reviewed. But, the first bottle was so nice; why not try out a bottle from another vineyard. (For all other hillbillies that might be reading this a vineyard is a fancy name for grape …
So my husband, who is not much of a hillbilly at all, has been a fan of Port City brewing in Alexandria, Virginia for a while. I was lucky enough to get to try a special brew that they put together for Brew at the Zoo at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. One of …
I’ve had sake before and enjoyed it. As much as I would like to think I am being hard on this bottle in particular, I’m really not. I’m not half the booze snob as other folks I know. So, from one utter amateur hillbilly to another…. Be prepared to rinse thoroughly with something more palatable. …
I sampled three different hard ciders when I was at Brew at the Zoo at the National Zoo. I had a red apple cider, a green apple cider, and the Original Sin Elderberry Cider. When its poured into the glass it has a beautiful dark magenta color. It was sweet, crisp, tangy, and delicious! If …
My husband and I yap it up about beer, a lot. He works in the ‘biz’ and I swear I get used as a beer guinea piggy more than I’d like to. I do tend to like wheat beer. Poured in a glass, it never looks as pretty as other beer- its cloudy its foggy …
Allow me to ramble out yet another write up from the relay race of beer sampling that was Brew at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. Allagash Brewery from Maine came quite a long way to share two of their brews with the likes of us. They brought the White and they brought the Black. …
I saw this beer in my local beer haunt and I honestly walked by it the first time. Edgar Allen Poe is rather huge in the Baltimore area because he lived there for a while. His birthday is celebrated, we get all manner of lookalikes and there are poetry readings and such. After over ten …
And… the wheat trend continues. I don’t like to call Lancaster Brewing’s Strawberry Wheat beer a trend though. I discovered this beer a few years ago when I bought one of the sampler barn packs. I just about took out a broom and beat my hubby with it to keep him away from the Strawberry …