The blueberry wine is alive. I generally put a paper towel over the mouth of the carboy when the wine is starting so that air can get in, but dust can’t. I hold it in place with a sterilized rubber band or hair-tie. The blueberry started foaming up a bit the night before last, and it did it even more yesterday. This morning it was insane. The towel was bulging and stained purple from berry juice, and when I removed it from the top, there was a near-volcanic outpouring of pulped berry bits.
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\nI had no idea that the paper towel could hold up under the kind of pressure that was coming out of that thing. I really would have expected it to shred, or for the elastic to have been pushed off of the bottle neck. It was amazing! And it just kept on going!<\/p>\n
By the time it had stopped, there was an inch deep layer of pulp and juice in the sink. I scooped a bunch of it out, and rinsed the rest into the drain basket. Unfortunately, some got into the drain. Well… A lot got into the drain. We wound up getting in to work a little late this morning because I was attacking the sink with a pair of plungers, trying to clear the blueberry plug out of the drain.<\/p>\n
It’s still there.<\/p>\n
We’re going to be doing some shopping on the way home from work today… Some of it is supplies for the party this Saturday, but we’re going to swing by a hardware store too. They may have some drain gunk that’ll dissolve the fruit bits without eating the pipes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The blueberry wine is alive. I generally put a paper towel over the mouth of the carboy when the wine is starting so that air can get in, but dust can’t. I hold it in place with a sterilized rubber … Continue reading