This is a picture of a closet in the hallway of our first apartment, Belden Ct, Apt L4, Agawam, MA. The date on the back of the picture is September 1970.
Paul was working at Rocky's and he bought a wine making kit and used it twice. One time he used Welch's Grape Juice, and the other time he used apple cider from Derby's Cider Mill. He followed the directions and then put it in the closet. After a while it started to make a noise. From my memories, it sounded like a big burp. It was something called a fermentation lock, which allowed the gases to escape.
When it was finally "done", we tasted it and thought that it had come out bad. Neither of us were drinkers, technically we weren't even old enough to drink, lol. We had no idea what it was supposed to taste like, but we didn't think it was supposed to taste like that!
Years later, after having tasted "real" wine, we decided that maybe that wine wasn't bad, but the way it was supposed to taste.
Every time I think back on that story it brings a smile to my face. I'm sure we had people over during the fermentation process when the wine "burped". I wonder what we told them?
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