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Balloon Wine

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Balloon Wine

Hi, several years ago somebody gave me a "simple" recipe
involving placing a balloon on a bottle of your wine recipe.
After the balloon goes through a process and inflates and deflates
you're supposed to have drinkable wine.

I lost this recipe and I really would like to have it back, if anyone has
a success story with this can you please share it with me.

 

Is that a prison based recipe?

 

Do you recognize it as such, cmanley542? (Cheers, mate)

Is it possible the balloon had something to do with the "breathing" of the wine? I wouldn't have thought that there would be expansion of gases.

 

I don't know if its from prison or not.  I had it scribbled on a piece of paper and I was sure that there was something to do with the wine expanding the balloon.  Sorry, I may be mistaken.

 

I think the baloon is just a cheap airlock, no different than putting a stopper and plastic airlock in a carboy.

 

I found a link to some guys discussing baloon wine, it sounds now like the baloon is used as an indicator of gas reabsorbtion? 

http://homemadewine.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14

 

Yeah, I remember seeing the same recipe.  As you mentioned, the ballon is a cheap airlock.  The trick to waiting for the balloon to deflate is more just a matter of waiting a bit to drink the wine.  I think that most of the gases in the balloon escape into the atmosphere just as if they would if you inflated the balloon yourself and tied it off.  I think the reabsorbtion of gasses is a bunch of bunk.

 

Good point. You're probably right.  I still think it sounds like a prison recipe.

 

I actually remember this when I was teenager.  I think that one of my parents' friends gave them the recipe.  I guess their friend tried it, but I remember thinking the same thing about being a recipe you might try in prison.

 

So, what's the going rate for bottles and balloons in prisons? big_smile big_smile
But anyway!  Thank you for the link.  I was just looking for something simple to experiment with.  I'll let you know what I come up with smile
Cheers!

 

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