2020 POTD Thread Archive

[GoceKU]

Looks like your going to be making some wine

No, i'm not a wine person, in fact i don't drink wine at all. Most of the grapes get processed and go in a still to make whisky some consumed fresh. The netting is working great, no more bird poop on my darker cars, the little niva seem to get only her windows pooped previously but now they all are clean.

 

[Downunder Bob]

Funny, I always thought whisky was made form grain like barley, wheat, and corn, and that grapes made brandy, there you go, leaning every day.

 

[darkzero]

Funny, I always thought whisky was made form grain like barley, wheat, and corn, and that grapes made brandy, there you go, leaning every day.

That's also what happens if you drink every day!

 

[Downunder Bob]

I do., well almost every day A glass or two of red wine with dinner.

 

[darkzero]

I do., well almost every day A glass or two of red wine with dinner.

I was just having some fun. My eyes have been strained lately from too much screen time. Bought a pair of reading glasses this morning & I'm so happy to see fine again. But really I need to cut down on internet time. I blame rona.

I drank almost every day for a while (cognac) but I quit drinking June of last year.

 

[Downunder Bob]

I was just having some fun. My eyes have been strained lately from too much screen time. Bought a pair of reading glasses this morning & I'm so happy to see fine again. But really I need to cut down on internet time. I blame rona.

I drank almost every day for a while (cognac) but I quit drinking June of last year.

I quit smoking 30-35 years ago, but i don't want to quit drinking, my mother lived a full life of 95 years and had 2 or 3 glasses of red wine every day. It served her well I'm sure I'll be the same.
Occasionly I'll have a dog day (day off grog) today was my first one for 2 or 3 months.

 

[GoceKU]

Funny, I always thought whisky was made form grain like barley, wheat, and corn, and that grapes made brandy, there you go, leaning every day.

You are right, that is brandy, here we call it „Ракија“. I don't use those terms that offten and are easy for me to mix them up.

 

[BGHansen]

The History Channel had a show on "spirits" a few years ago. Learned a lot of trivia from the show like how brandy was developed. As I recall, it was around the Revolutionary War time. Colonists liked to drink wine, so to minimize the "one for one" shipping (one glass of wine shipped = one glass consumed), they distilled the wine in Europe to remove water with the intent of adding water once it was shipped over here. I recall them getting something like a 4 to 1 gain; one barrel of concentrated wine equaled four barrels of reconstituted wine. Folks started drinking the concentrated wine and liked it, voila' - Brandy.

Another one was the "science" behind stills, just never thought about it but it makes sense. Quick version is water boils at 212 F at atmospheric pressure, something like 175 F for alcohol. So the still is heated to above 175 F to turn the alcohol into gas with the steam vented through the cooling coils. There it cools and returns to liquid with the distilled alcohol dripping out the end. The source mash has no alcohol left when the still runs dry. Get it above 212 F and the water boils too and you've got watered down booze.

I know, more than anyone wanted to know. . .

Bruce

 

[Reddinr]

I sharpened a pencil ... on my lathe. I needed to make a pattern-following pencil with 1/2" OD to trace some artwork my wife wanted turned into some plasma-cut gifts. So, I sharpened a pencil so that it was blunt with only a small nub of graphite sticking out. Then I drilled a hole in a 1/2" wood dowel, also on the lathe, to snug fit the pencil. Then I used the precisely manufactured device to hand trace around the paper pattern so I could jigsaw out a plywood pattern with the needed offset for the plasma torch. I made a half-dozen or so of the metal "works of art", soon to be clocks. Long story short, lathe is paid for in the eyes of my wife.

 

[GoceKU]

Well, a new day a new project. Short story, i need to modify my yard fence, i have to unlock then lock the gate whenever the garbage men or the water reader come by, and they never come when they should. So dedicated to to make a separate gate for garbage. But it won't leave easy access when my gates are locked, so i called few yard fence companies and they all ether don't work due to the pandemic or are backed up with work till end of the summer. So i grabbed a tape measure, had a lot of the steel, bought some more and made this fence, it took me about 8 hours of solid work.