Interesting read: prohibition era "wine bricks"

[Ty520]

some of you may already be aware of this, but i just learned about them and found this interesting...

During Prohibition, it was illegal to sell grape must, so they started producing "grape juice bricks."

the instructions stated to rehydrate in 1 gallon of water to turn int juice to consume...but whatever you do DO NOT <wink wink> allow it to sit in a cool dark place for 21 days to ferment into wine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-wine-industry-survive-prohibition-180956412/

 

[ratflinger]

Make any law you want and some clever person will find a loophole around it.

 

[jswordy]

Yup, those were a very cool idea. They also sold jugs of grape juice plastered with warnings not to leave it out in the open at room temperature, or it might ferment. And that would be ILLEGAL (gasp).

 

[joeswine]

In a New Jersey winery during that time period they use to keep already made wine in storage tanks buried underground tank trucks would come in under the cover of darkness and pump it out , then go to New York or Philly. Fact.
( out in the grounds).