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All my friends are cheap lushes. Read, "Screw caps."

"What, $8.00 for a six pack, no way!"

$10.00 for a bottle of wine, forget it.

Talk about "free" mead, oh yeah. :rolleyes:
 
When I first started doing this most of my friends were extremely cautious and not overly enthusiastic about tasting mead (mine or anyone else's). That was before they tasted it. Now they look forward to tasting it. I had twice as many people at my second mead tasting party than I had at my first. I think at my third one I'll have everyone bring the ingredients for a JAO and walk them through how to do it. :)
 
I gave my brother in law a JAO kit for Xmas one year, got all the spices, yeast, the jar of honey, an empty water jug and instructions together in a box labelled "Mead Kit"...
"Add orange and water, cover jug with plastic wrap. Wait 2 months. Enjoy responsibly."
 
He was living 500 km away at the time, so I don't know if he ever did make it, but I told him how to make the blacberry JAO variation I've fallen in love with and he made 5 gal or so of that for his wedding last year.
 
I'll save you some time - two six-oz containers of blackberries in place of the orange. Spices optional, it's awesome both ways.
 
A good source of used bottles is wine festivals.

You can get as many bottles as you can fit in the back of a pickup. I think the record I have was 32 cases of bottles one sunday. (wife was not happy when I brought those home!)

They can be a lot of work to get the labels off, but I don't mind. Saves a ton of money and recycleing them for reuse is a good thing.

Most wine labels come off easily by soaking them. The ones that don't come off easily enough by sticking them in the oven at 150 for 10min. Then the labels pop right off. \
*word of warning* use a glove when picking up the hot bottle*
**I also have them in a pan, in case they don't handle the heat well, but have never actually had a problem**
 
150*F in the oven shouldn't be a problem as long as you let them cool slowly... that's about how hot my tap water is, haven't cracked anything yet (although close to scalding a number of times), and jam jars get put in the oven at 200*F...

Good idea, thanks, Storm!
 
I have a new song!

It's bottle washing day! It's bottle washing day!

Tra la la boom dee ay! Tra la la boom dee ay!

I had no trouble getting labels off with bleachwater, so didn't need to try the bottle-in-the-oven trick.
 
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