I once attended a winemaking class put on by a local shop. It was $25 a head and 18 of us showed up (do the math). I knew how to make wine at that time better than most laymen but took the class to see what else i could learn. We gathered in the back room and stood in front of a table which had a can opener and a 5 gallon carboy on it. He opened a can of strawberry concentrate, dumped it in the carboy, and proceeded to add water, yeast, and acid blend to it. "That's all there is too it" he said. My jaw hit the floor. Just then a customer walked in. He excused himself and went into the shop and began selling stuff to these men. Are you kidding me?!! First he robs me of $25, then he bocces his class, and finally asks 18 of us to wait while he sells a few things?!!!! While he was gone I heard the others begin to get angry, asking each other all the questions they had come to get answers to. I immediately chimed in and the more I answered the more they asked. When he came back he quickly became upset that the class was ignoring him and taking turns asking me what to do and when to do it. When he finally barked "hey this is my class" I snapped back with "these people came here hoping to learn how to make wine and all you did was show them how to dump stuff (perhaps i used a more colorful word) into a jug. His response to me was "hey man what do you want from me, I'm a beer maker not a winemaker"! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!! I would give anything to work in a winery or own a shop like his and he just uses it to milk innocent people. Wow.
