Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: 5 Dec 2024 00:35:02 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <68718613-d60f-a88a-4191-404acc1ed82d@example.net> <3a416c2c-ac2e-686b-3357-8a12c8b29181@example.net> <7fe3461d-034d-182a-1f49-593897da8287@example.net> <3bdd895b-3d89-0af9-8cb1-c75e3536a34f@example.net> <20241202131938.00006a37@gmail.com> <8c5b7aab-bdea-bf1b-4a63-d8e88f5ebe33@example.net> <1d749149-8ab2-8479-6ab5-ff6b6a91a158@example.net> <1a157182-0b8e-1181-aaca-7bf01d15e5f9@example.net> <2ff93cc9-4153-2065-2845-27be39d60da2@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net KpxGSUWX1F6IYZddzgeOUAwP8Vf7PcjicR/M6+Xe7ODRyijlVz Cancel-Lock: sha1:rQ4svvrJRgDmlJ12CdTLVt4mPc4= sha256:q3awlJY1/WnP7b8sU/4O3J/+2WAxnGgxeM9j1w+Oggk= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2626 On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 21:59:00 +0100, D wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: > >> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:09:48 +0100, D wrote: >> >>> I have a neighbour who does some kind of black currant wine and >>> apparently, according to my father, it was awful. >> >> I made a batch of dandelion wine when I was a kid. It was pretty rough. >> We got cider from a local farmer who had rigged up a tractor driven >> chopper and had a old jackscrew press. Bring your own jugs. Unfiltered >> and unpasteurized it tended to self ferment into sparkling cider. >> >> During prohibition some of my family took a more professional approach >> although the final product was applejack rather than cider. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applejack_(drink) > > Never heard of, but sounds similar to Calvados. Would you say it is > similar? No idea, never having had Calvados. I had commercial applejack years ago and iirc it wouldn't be recognized as an apple product in a blind taste test.