Beer.
I think Im over it now,but my latest obsession has been the home brewing of fine ale.Should get us to summer.
posted by calamitysue at 12:33 PM
Thursday, September 07, 2006
I think Im over it now,but my latest obsession has been the home brewing of fine ale.Should get us to summer.
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Mmmm, beer. Several of the major food groups, all together in one handy source! We planted a native hop vine this year, but that's as far as we've gotten. One dream for making this land pay its rent was to have a hopyard. Sadly, we discovered in the course of researching the topic that this area failed as a hop-growing region because of mildew. Now we're thinking wine grapes. There are several new varieties of vinestock that can withstand temperatures to 30F below, which is what we'd need. Of course we are not alone on this bandwagon; the lakeshores of Vermont are starting to sprout vineyards. California, look out!
I will allways be gratefull to the wine industry for taking over the bulldozed apple orchards on the Tamar River (where I grew up) and saving the place from becomming a giant suburb.Also we find that there is less chance of a glut of cold weather type wines-so the Tasmanian wines are in demand even now when the Australian wine industry is in deep shit.
Go cold climate grapes!
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