Categories: ethics
Date: 06 October 2008 22:11:16
So back in June, when Mr B went on holiday for 2 weeks, a friend and I decided to engage in a girlie project - making elderflower wine. On our allotment there is an elderflower tree hanging over the wall, so we picked all the flowers we could reach (double the amount the recipe required), bought all the other required ingredients (doubling everything), and made elderflower and raisin wine. Just before Greenbelt we bottled 10 bottles of it, at Greenbelt we discovered how strong it was when we shared a bottle at a BBQ, and after Greenbelt I was given my half of the remaining wine bottles. We had a social event at our house a week or so ago, when the majority of one of these bottles was consumed - with everyone having about the amount you'd have if you were drinking neat spirits, because it had that much of a kick to it. I've just spent a lovely, quiet evening in: watching a film, eating fairly traded chocolate and drinking the rest of this bottle of wine. I had one glass over 2 hours. Which for a normal glass of wine wouldn't really affect me. And yet it feels like I've drunk a least half a bottle. The worrying thing is, I have no idea how much percentage it actually is. Mr B bought a hydrometer recently, but when you place it inside one of our bottles, you can't see the reading because it's too cloudy. If anyone knows of a container that we could put some wine into, so that we could get the hydrometer close enough to the edge of the glass to read it - it would be much appreciated! For now though, I'm going to find some water and head to bed! I've got a study day tomorrow that I'd prefer not to be hungover during!