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To: Red_Devil 232

My heart bleeds for you. I have a mature orchard of a dozen trees and have taken seven - count ‘em - seven apples this season; late frost killed the blossoms. It was my sincere desire to brew hard cider this year but, alas, it was not to be.

Oh well, there’s always next year.


18 posted on 09/07/2012 5:42:05 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (I'm for Churchill in 1940!)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
This year hasn't been good for lots of crops. I did get a bunch of mustang grapes, but during processing, the black mold infested it, and I lost the entire batch.

Best year I ever had was completely ad-hoc and unexpected. Cactus pears and native green plums up in the mountains in New Mexico. I brewed about 30 gallons from the land that year.

If it has sugar, it ferments.

/johnny

26 posted on 09/07/2012 5:50:43 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
"Oh well, there’s always next year."

Seems like I am always saying that about my garden every year for some crop or anther!

29 posted on 09/07/2012 5:58:06 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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