{"id":21,"date":"2007-03-26T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T14:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wineintheshower.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-09-29T22:14:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T05:14:26","slug":"it-takes-a-lot-of-beer-to-make-good-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/2007\/03\/26\/it-takes-a-lot-of-beer-to-make-good-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"It Takes a Lot of Beer to Make Good Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I live in San Diego, which has become quite a mecca for small craft beer breweries.\u00a0 I got my hubby one of those \u201cbrewing bags\u201d to make beer at home a few years back, and I have to say, through no fault of his own, that beer was just gross.\u00a0 However, I knew he wanted to make beer, and so I got him a more sophisticated (i.e., useful) kit for his birthday from Leeners.\u00a0 This time the beer came out great, and soon he became a beer-brewing fiend.\u00a0 In the meantime, several of our friends also started making homebrew.\u00a0 It was really fun to try different things and have brew parties. \u00a0The problem for me was, I like beer, but it gets so heavy after a while.\u00a0 I really prefer sipping a lovely glass of wine (or 4) on the patio.\u00a0 But, I figured to make wine, I had to start with grapes.\u00a0 We do live near Temecula, so I figured I should be able to find some grapes if I tried.\u00a0 But then what would I do with them?\u00a0 Then I read Lynn Alley\u2019s book Lost Arts.\u00a0 It just so happens that she lives in the area too, and she talked about how she throws a trash can in the car, and just drives around wine country during harvest season to see who would sell her grapes.\u00a0 OK, I could do that.\u00a0 But it sounded like <em>work<\/em>.\u00a0 More work than winemaking should be.<\/p>\n<p>Then I was digging around Leeners site, and remembered they had a winemaking section.\u00a0 Lo and behold, they had wine making kits.\u00a0 Hmmm, that sounds too easy.\u00a0 They can\u2019t be good.\u00a0 But, it was easier to order one and try it than drive around Temecula with a trash can \u2026.\u00a0 So, I got my first wine kit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I live in San Diego, which has become quite a mecca for small craft beer breweries.\u00a0 I got my hubby one of those \u201cbrewing bags\u201d to make beer at home a few years back, and I have to say, through no fault of his own, that beer was just gross.\u00a0 However, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/docker.vsl:8080\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}