The latest batch of wine is bubbling away happily in the fermenter bucket. It’s Strawberry this time. My wife de-stemmed and trimmed the gooshy parts off of sixteen pounds of berries, which I then washed and crushed mercilessly. Handy tip if you’re thinking about taking up the merciless crushing of strawberries as a hobby: take it in stages. Small quantities of strawberry can easily be crushed between the bottom of a glass and the inside of a mixing bowl. On the other hand, if you try to crush more than about two or three pounds of berries all at once, they’ll gang up on you and form a viscid mass that will try to trap your crushing implement in a sticky grip.
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