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tule peak timber · « **Reply #40 on:** November 12, 2022, 12:18:54 PM »

You need to peel them, but they are full of sugar.

kantuckid · « **Reply #41 on:** November 13, 2022, 07:36:19 AM »

The list of what can be used for wine is long indeed but many of those things make a wine which is unremarkable. Mostly some things just lack flavor that is meaningful.
Another tidbit on wine that might catch some off guard, wine grapes are far sweeter than table grapes. Ask someone around you and they'll assume a table grape would be sweeter as we buy them to place directly in our mouth, so on. I've had mixed results with batches of the same fruits. One of the best wines I ever made was from Marionberries-a tame blackberry variety. I made it again a few years back and it's drinkable but far from as good. Likely I didn't control the sugar to be same in those batches, or the fruit just had more flavor in one vs. the other.
Those Thompson Seedless Grapes I mentioned, were once about the only seedless grape grown. The wine they make has very mild flavor that definitely doesn't stand out. Mostly it's not worth using many grapes not a wine variety to ferment.
There's been lots of Welch's grape juice concentrate wine made but IMO, it's a waste of time.

Don P · « **Reply #42 on:** November 13, 2022, 08:26:27 AM »

One of the best fermentables is day old donuts but it isn't much on flavor

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When you close the loop on that group of cottage industries, a horse-cart with a still on it made its way through the area stopping at each farm. The sorry wine made good brandy, or, good wine made excellent brandy. We chose to put a high paywall in front of that simple horse cart.

LeeB · « **Reply #43 on:** November 13, 2022, 10:26:36 AM »

Quote from: Don P on November 13, 2022, 08:26:27 AM

One of the best fermentables is day old donuts but it isn't much on flavor

Are you letting out secrets about your past?

tule peak timber · « **Reply #44 on:** November 13, 2022, 11:08:38 AM »

Wild rose hips with sugar added to the ferment turned out pretty good.

21incher · « **Reply #45 on:** November 13, 2022, 03:00:02 PM »

Quote from: LeeB on November 13, 2022, 10:26:36 AM

Quote from: Don P on November 13, 2022, 08:26:27 AM
One of the best fermentables is day old donuts but it isn't much on flavor
A friend of mine made awesome bacon with doughnutsfood6. Every couple hours Dunkin Doughnuts used to toss them out and make fresh. Fattened up his pig Nixon with them fast in the last couple weeks.

Don P · « **Reply #46 on:** November 13, 2022, 03:15:10 PM »

Kinda sugar cured from the inside out

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #47 on:** November 13, 2022, 03:45:18 PM »

Pickled to. Pickled pig's feet anyone?

tule peak timber · « **Reply #48 on:** November 13, 2022, 05:16:39 PM »

Please sir ,,,may I have another ?

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