I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF !!!-----------

[TAXMACKEM]

I did it I did it !! I managed to stop my self from having my first try at TC for a full week before eventually succumbing !!

It was no good tho, I was always destined to start getting "the twitch " despite my best efforts . I am weak (unlike my TC ) . The pull of the whizzypoppop was too much .

I just happened to be passing the apple juice in T*sco's when a tractor beam ( check Area 51 if unsure what that is), dragged me screaming to the said juice, and 4.5L levitated itself into my basket .I was too suprised to take them out,so reluctantly paid for them at the till.

Oh well I said when I got home,might as make use of them or they go in the bin (sigh), so in went the Ritchies champagne yeast ( thats funny,cant remember buyin that,strange.), and on went the airlock .

I've found that if you watch TC enough ( as I did),you go into a state of yogafizzgrin ( this means the faster it bubbles the more relaxed you feel,and the bigger your smile gets.)

All I gotta do now is stop wandering the streets dribbling and muttering "the dark side ,the dark side"----------------------------

[MickyD]

Yes I also suddenly found myself (this is honestly the truth) sitting there the other day with a bottle of my 2 week old Brewferm Christmas Beer in one hand and a bottle opener in the other, but somehow I managed NOT to open it, and carefully put it back in the cupboard.

And the other day I remember driving past a Homebrew shop down in Worthing, and the next thing I appear to have a Rioja wine kit on the passenger seat. How does that happen?? I dont remember stopping, and going in the shop.

[TAXMACKEM]

Aye, its a funny thing how matter transports itself.

I tried to start it with general purpose wine yeast (all I had) but it spat its dummy out and said no, I'm not fermenting, so I pitched the Ritchies in, and warned it that if it didn't behave itself I would make it watch 2 Newcastle matches,that sorted it.

[GerryT]

You think thats bad ,, i was just reading the forum and this landed right on my PC table and theres a fermenting bucket all clean ready for it .




I think theres some wifely going's on here.

[TAXMACKEM]

Hmmm,does your wife LIKE Cabernet? Has she ever mentioned a fondness for the smell of blackcurrant ? It wud be a crucial clue !

You are Soooo right Daab, after not doing wine for years, I started again recently ( which is how I ended up on here), and decided exactly that . I now have a total of 14 gallons on in the last 4 weeks, hehehe, I'm DETERMINED to mature some

[TAXMACKEM]

I think there's some strange forces at work here, dropping wine and beer things on people unexpectedly, maybe we should EXORCISE good judgement on what to to with the stuff. hehehe