{"id":1625,"date":"2003-12-04T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2003-12-04T08:33:38","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T13:33:38","slug":"cranky-cranberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Cranky Cranberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to get mighty ticked off at the batch of cranberry wine that we tried to get started up over the holidays&#8230;  Cranberries are a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/booniverse\/?p=24\">traditional part<\/a> of Thanksgiving, so it seemed like an appropriate time to try making them into wine.   Unfortunately, it looks like they&#8217;re not going to cooperate until they are good and ready.  I&#8217;ve added fresh brewing yeast twice now, and there&#8217;s not so much as a bubble from the bucket.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe apple wine that we started up at the same time is bubbling away like mad, to the point where there&#8217;s foam getting into the water lock.  But there&#8217;s not a peep of percolation from the cranberry mess.  I&#8217;ve checked the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1580172091\/002-9486096-2905667?v=glance\">Home Winemaker&#8217;s Companion<\/a>&#8221; and they suggest a couple of remedies for non-starting wines, but I thought I&#8217;d throw out the problem to any winemaking readers I might have out there&#8230;  Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to get mighty ticked off at the batch of cranberry wine that we tried to get started up over the holidays&#8230; Cranberries are a traditional part of Thanksgiving, so it seemed like an appropriate time to try making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}