Not due to cost as much as just aging and having some time and space, my wife and I have started making wine and mead. Actually what prompted it was moving to a place with a plum tree.
I highly recommend it; very rewarding. Pretty easy, not a huge startup cost. Delicious!
We are now rotating 6 x 5 L carboys, and making lot’s of mead. We have got the process down to a very precise set of steps with careful measurement and controls. If you amortize cost for non-consumables like carboys, siphons, hygrometers, etc. and calculate only consumable cost, each batch is way cheaper than anything in a storefront, and made with love. Everything is better when made by one’s own hand.
Carrolade@lemmy.world
on 18 May 12:55
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Beer is just more popular with young people in France atm
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
on 18 May 17:23
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So much good cheap wine is available in France I think there’s something else going on. A global wine glut has been in the news here in California as well. There’s a whiskey glut as well (might be distilled spirits in general). Could it be because cannabis is more available? Or perhaps more people are on meds that limit their intake of alcohol?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 18 May 18:39
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So the economical strain causes an identity crisis for France. When will they surrender?
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Drinking more cheap wine than expensive wine, more like.
Not due to cost as much as just aging and having some time and space, my wife and I have started making wine and mead. Actually what prompted it was moving to a place with a plum tree.
I highly recommend it; very rewarding. Pretty easy, not a huge startup cost. Delicious!
We are now rotating 6 x 5 L carboys, and making lot’s of mead. We have got the process down to a very precise set of steps with careful measurement and controls. If you amortize cost for non-consumables like carboys, siphons, hygrometers, etc. and calculate only consumable cost, each batch is way cheaper than anything in a storefront, and made with love. Everything is better when made by one’s own hand.
Now that’s a sign of an impending apocalypse.
None of them can afford water, neither sparkling nor flat.
More mead please
Honey is money
Beer is just more popular with young people in France atm
So much good cheap wine is available in France I think there’s something else going on. A global wine glut has been in the news here in California as well. There’s a whiskey glut as well (might be distilled spirits in general). Could it be because cannabis is more available? Or perhaps more people are on meds that limit their intake of alcohol?
So the economical strain causes an identity crisis for France. When will they surrender?
But- but they’re the revolution people!