August 21st, 2015

Benjamin Franklin: "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

Now that we are done with our mission of watching every "Best Picture" Oscar winning movie ever made, and have also now finished binge-watching all 8 seasons of House M.D. on Netflix, we've started on a BBC series called Sherlock. It's about what Sherlock Holmes would be like and how he would solve his crimes in modern-day London.  He is played by Benedict Cumberbatch (Who was In the Best Picture Oscar winning movie 12 Years a Slave and was in The Hobbit as the voices of Smaug and Necromancer) and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, is played by Martin Freeman (who was also in The Hobbit as the star, Bilbo Baggins). The show is really great! we just started and there aren't that many episodes yet, but it's a pretty awesome show.

After work a friend and I stopped off at Grubs Uptown for a cold drink and some delicious cheese fries!  The fries were really good and a full order was way too much for the two of us but we had a good time hanging out after a long week at work!

Another Friday Night in Winslow and it's time for our first homemade wine tasting!  We have now finished making our first four batches of wine.  Our first four batches were made with frozen strawberries and somehow they all came out tasting more peachy than like strawberries.  Damon made slight changes to the recipe of each batch as he was making them, so we saved out a small sample of each batch so that we could come back later and sample them all side-by-side and see which recipe we liked the best!

We, and when I say we, I mean Damon does most all of the actual making of wine, while I help him with the drinking!  I'm just offering up my taste buds for a good cause and quality control, don't ya know! 

Keep in mind, it takes about three months from start to finish to make a single batch of wine, so we've been working up to our 4 batch comparison tasting for awhile.  After many months, we have now ended up with samples of four slightly different batches of homemade strawberry wine.  So now on to the comparison testing!

I know, that looks like a lot of wine right?  Who cares, it's Friday and the end to yet another crazy long week!!!  After the two of us sampled all the slightly different recipes, we decided that our 3rd batch was the best and have ear-marked that recipe for the next time we want to make some strawberry wine!  But for now, we are moving on to making grape wine! We plan to do the same thing as we did with the strawberry wine, by making four slightly different batches of the grape wine and having another side-by-side wine tasting for the best recipe when we're done.  Might take us awhile, but stay tuned!

Happy Friday All!