All Broken Up

I finished bottling the rest of the wine. My sister-in-law wants to use some for the toast at her wedding in May. I'm extremely honored for her to pick my wine to use for her toast.

I also started a new batch today. Same thing as before (pomegranate). I know, I know; I said I wasn't going to do pomegranate again. Everyone likes it though, and it's almost good for you! Well, maybe not so much after I add the 12 lbs of sugar to it :) We can pretend that it's good for you though right?!

I did manage to get about 12 lbs of sugar in this time. I don't know exactly how much because I had a partial bag left over from before. I purchased two 4 lb bags of sugar, and about 1/2 of a 10 lb bag. So somewhere between 10 and 15 lbs of sugar is in this batch. I mixed the water/sugar heavy to get all that in. I didn't like doing it quite that thick because I'm a bit worried about the sugar settling on the bottom of the container. It's very difficult to shake up a 5 gallon glass container after it's full to try and do a "finish mix". I got it all in though.

Oh, I also didn't get to put a full gallon of pomegranate juice in because Target didn't have 4 quarts of it. So I improvised and put 3 quarts of pomegranate and 1 quart of pomegranate/blueberry/cranberry mix. I did the best I could; at least I kept some pomegranate in it. I'll keep you posted on how it works out.


Useless tidbit of the day
It took 20,000 people 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.