John Katrina

dont fret peeps, when we are over for a longer stay i will be smoking bacon!! or dry curing it. what with the wine kits you can get now i feel a homebrew coming on.

did you know that in the uk you are allowed to distill 10 litres of spirit a day.feel that one coming on too.

lol kat

a_f_d

well that's news to me.
In portugal you can / could distill iirc 20 litres a year for your own use.
Unless this is a new EC directive or something then distilling even 1/2 litre in the UK could put you in jail!

AndyD 8-)#

P.S. the first 5 gals of beer I brewed in the UK was technically illegal (you needed an excise licence but they didn't want to know for a few runs of homebrew).

John Katrina

needless to say them up there have kept it very quite. i will double check and get back to you. although the person that told me is one of those people that know there stuff. watch this space. no point doing it there but here, especially as i like vodka.

kat

emsirrah

[QUOTE=John Katrina;7509630]dont fret peeps, when we are over for a longer stay i will be smoking bacon!! or dry curing it. what with the wine kits you can get now i feel a homebrew coming on.

So you are going to fill your suitcase with wine kits.
So much easier to make it with the natural things you can get here - google wine making and just bring the little things you can't get here like finings etc.
My grandmother and mother - must say that unlike me were teetotal - used to make lots of wines as a hobby and used natural things like potato peelings, many fruits and veg and my mother used to tap the silver birch trees in our garden to make wine.
We did have very good family parties in those days and many a time there would be a lound bang in the middle of the night when one of the bottles exploded.
Goodness that is going back some time but can still taste the elderberry wine.

johnny five

Have a look at this. This crazy old bat lives across the road from us. She and her husband worked abroad all their lives and are now in wealthy retirement and consider themselves very much the local "nobs".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_DrhbxSVU
You will probably not be surprised to hear that we brought out a couple of home wine-making books (Making from scratch that is............have you never tasted Scratch Wine, once you have you'll be itching for more!) so they are available to borrow.

noni

Rubarb wine for morning sickness. My dad used to make it for me.

emsirrah

Hopefully the word "used to" no longer applies to our madam moderator.

noni

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Well you never know what can happen to you in Goa

emsirrah

Never madam moderator - you wish or not

noni

NOT.

What you can't get in Goa is Braun gas for curling brush/tongs, but who cares out there, only the two weekers.

k800mer

You can not get good marmalade, we take a coupe of jars but it does not last long. Might try making it with the green oranges next season. You can make nice easy drinking light wine from cartons of grape juice.

emsirrah

J5's honey and lemon curd - brilliant and for sale.

I make piccalilli and wonderful tomato chutney - not for sale but recipes next season.

Hope you are not going to smoke your bacon in the toilet like that bloke on the Living in India programme.

Noni - can't you connect your gas curlers to the kitchen bottle

noni

Hi Em,
Did it look like I used them much you can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear.

emsirrah

noni - was going to plug mine in and get gassed but decided to go to Val at Snips and have it done properly. Wash and brush for 200 rps - better than doing it myself.


Back to UK on Wednesday - staying for a stage play called Mod Crop which I am featured in (in the book but do not know about the stage play)
60's mods in Notts and Skegness -
Not on topic but anyone else there

hemingway

I think the MOT is out on me Lambretta, the back tyre is flat & the chrome on me mirrors is pitted - plus me fish tail parker won't fasten anymore. . . . . . . . .

Hemingway.