How Wine Bricks Saved The U.S. Wine Industry During Prohibition

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[mylife]

Welch's bar!

[mylife]

[algore]

I would totally try this, where can i get a wine brick?

[mylife]

no longer sold

[Telepathic Intruder]

Any grocery store, the same section as the cocaine, heroin, and meth bricks.

[SES1066]

For the ‘enterprising’, a law like the Prohibition Act, is a challenge and a road to wealth. On the other side, if the Act had been written to the level of the most zealous in the ‘Temperance Movement’, it could not have passed. We, of the 2000s, forget how freedom-minded our ancestors were (before the Depression)!

[Fai Mao]

There is a winery (or was) in Hong Kong that used basically bricks of raisins to make wine. I have no idea if they are still in business. They bought dried grapes from all over the world to to make wine in an old factory.

[Fai Mao]

Here is a story about them
https://www.wine-business-international.com/wine/general/hong-kongs-own-winery

[Chickensoup]

Grape concentrate. Wine making supplies

[Mouton]

I think there was a loophole in the law that allowed one to make like 200 gallons for home use during prohibition. I know there was some kind on loop hole because my grandfather made his wine during prohibition, as he did before and after.

[livius]

Very interesting! I love the warnings about what not to do with the product…so you wouldn’t “accidentally” end up making wine!

[mylife]

All stupid laws are met this way.

[mylife]

Brilliant aint it?

[caver]

Great article! Thanks for posting.

[lizma2]

My grandparents had a wine press in their basement. They made their own, possibly sharing with their friends!

[algore]

I must have missed that aisle

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/better-living-through-chemistry-making-sudafed-from-meth/

[TianaHighrider]

Bookmark 😄

[mylife]

:)

[Openurmind]

We made raisin jack in prison... Wasn’t bad at all.

[mylife]

They all did back then.
Myron made wonderful Lambrusco