[THC] also need to give away beverages and some grains

[L.A. Swihart]

Come over after 5 Saturday for a unique "event.".

Victor left some grains with the club, and I have some myself that 
really need taken to good homes and used rather than waiting for me.

There are also quite a number of bottles of beverages.  Capped and 
corked.  Some 25 oz, 22 oz, 17.5 oz, 16 oz, 12 oz, 8 oz, 6.7 oz.  
(Bottles can all come back to me if you want to return them clean and 
empty some future day.  Or not.

Sat after the "Food for Thought" forums at the Unitarian Church in West 
Lafayette, I've invited some non-brewer friends over to help sort and 
taste and take away some of the beverages.  They are mostly meads and 
wines, but some beers. 

They are not *all* horrible, in fact only the "Peach Ick" is truly 
awful.  (Lila made some good barbecue sauce out of some of it once, but 
it required reducing about five wine bottles of it to a quart and a half 
or so.  And the addition of spices and some applesauce and I don't know 
what all else.)  There's probably a few remaining bottles of blueberry 
Pale Ale that I advise avoiding too.

These are things that I've, er, "worked" around, things not particularly 
to my taste or in need of more aging.  "Sage mint wine."  Berry mead 
which is too sweet -- I don't do sweet -- an probably will age very 
nicely.  Quite a bit of dry red wine from Indiana-grown Chambourcin, 
Marachal Fouche, and other varieties of grapes, made in 2004 and will 
make great vinegar unless somebody likes it and adopts it.

My goal for Saturday is to open some of most variety (there are some 
things represented by three bottles, some batches represented by a dozen 
or two bottles.

And taste some of it, laugh about, make faces, be surprised by how much 
better it's become, or how it has not improved a bit, and then for each 
of several hundred bottles either

poor it into a vinegar fermenter (not because it's turning, but because 
it's red wine which is best to make into vinegar)
o
poor it into the sink
or
send it home with somebody.

So I don't have to take it to our new house.  If you want to and get 
around to it, you can bring cleaned empty bottles out there when I have 
a club meeting there some time in the future.

Linda