Yeast also mate and have sex in the grape juice. It's quite the drunken party until they run out of other people's sugar.
Posted on 09/24/2016 9:04:55 AM PDT by NRx
It’s weird to think about, but a lot of the things we take for granted are almost shockingly recent inventions. The can opener didn’t exist until 1870—nearly a full century after canned food was first produced (people ate so much canned food that year, you guys). Doors have been around forever, but doorknobs weren’t invented until 1878 (and people were finally able to leave their houses). And grape juice?
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Visit England and that's all the locals drink. Strongbow cider. It's what Budweiser is here.
When I visited pubs in Britain I thought they'd be drinking warm British ales. Nope. They drank cider, almost to a man.
I don’t deny that. It’s just that it was an interesting way to make the case. God created the possibility of nuclear fusion too, but I am not sure that He looks favorably on all the ways we have used it.
We had a Baptist preacher here who years ago preached on the marriage at Cana.
“And THAT is when Jesus changed the water into pure unfermented grape juice!”
We looked at each other and winked.
I have read that back during Prohibition the bread yeast companies put a warning on each pack of yeast, something like this.
WARNING! “It is a violation of Federal Law to mix this yeast with grape juice, store it in a dark place for a few weeks and drink the product!”
And that “best wine” was saved for last! :)
Yeast also mate and have sex in the grape juice. It's quite the drunken party until they run out of other people's sugar.
On the contrary: It was too obvious - so glaringly obvious that I couldn't believe that anyone would waste their time trying to make it.
Regards,
Perhaps pot makes you credulous as well as paranoid.
The servants drew out what Jesus had transformed into wine & took it to the chief steward, who tasted and then berated the bridegroom for saving the best wine until after the guests were too sloshed to know the difference.
If the chief steward had tasted grape juice, he would have thrown down his goblet, said “I quit!!” and stormed out.
And anyhow, when the wine first ran out & Mary His mother said, “Son, they have no wine”, He replied that his time had not yet come. She then said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you”. Scripture does not record Jesus saying, “Thanks a bunch, Mom, putting me on the spot!”
What Jesus did NOT say was, “Mother, there’s too much drunkenness at this feast already, and I for one am not going to add to it.”
;^)
I wouldn't know - at least, not from personal experience.
Regards,
Sure.
Also answers why my sourdough starter recipe includes a handful of mashed grapes!
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