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Light golden coloring with a bright nose of peach blossom. The body is crisp and rounded, sweetly scented of ripe orchard peaches and light honey. Not too sweet, not too dry and buI’ve had the Sweet Sunset ” Red Chocolate ” before and the favor was simply tantalizingly delightful to my palate ...

During the fermentation process, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is created by the yeast, along with the creation of alcohol. In beer, CO2 is not much of a worry as it creates the carbonation. In a still wine however, CO2 is undesirable and affect the taste and quality of the wine. When making wine that...

Taste perception is partly determined by genetics These differences in perception depend to some extent on the kind of foods we become accustomed to during childhood. However, there is more to taste than meets the eye (or tongue!). Scientists think that much of taste perception is genetically...

Beer-Can Chicken is one of those odd inventions that seems to have developed a life of its own. The basic premise is to stand a chicken up on an empty beer can and cook it standing up. For beginner cooks, I would rate the “Degree of Difficulty” on all Beer-Can Chicken recipes as “med-high,”...

As in: Adopting a diet of bare subsistence in hopes of promoting internal cleansing, spiritual growth and personal awakening, all the while measuring their progress by the relative “gluey” and “sponginess” of what the rest of us are happy to glance at and flush. As in: Shut the hell up...

# 3 pounds fresh pineapple # 1 campden tablet # 4 cups white sugar # 1 teaspoon nutrients # 1/4 teaspoon tannin # 1 package yeast # water Remove top from pineapple. Cut off peel. Quarter pineapple lengthwise and cut out core. Chop into small pieces and put into primary fermentor. Mash...