~Gapes Glorious Grapes~

Grape juice is possibly the best and most famous of all the juices in the world. But when it comes to making the grape juice that is when it gets hard. We have grape vine on our back fence, and they have been there from since I can remember. About every other year ,or every year depending on haw much grape juice we have down stairs in storage, we make grape juice. First there is the picking of the grapes. This part is long and tedious, not really it takes about 30 min for one 5 gallon bucket of grapes. It just seems long when your alone or not thinking of anything but grapes; but it can be very fun out there if you got a good song to sing or someone to talk to. Than you have to destemify the grapes and put them in the juicer. This is quick and not bad, again as long as you have music or someone to talk to. Than comes the worst part of it all, waiting.

You have to wait for the grapes to be pressured into juice. This takes forever hours to get just 9 or so pints of juice. Than to get it into the jars you have to hold the jar under the spout with tongs because the juice is so hot it will burn you, than you have to speeze the stopper at the same time to let the juice out. This is really hard to both squeeze and hold the bottle. The stopper is hard to push open and the bottle gets heavy. It's really anoying to because you cann't just keep going you have to stop every few bottles because there isn't anymore juice pressed. it's just really annoying after the destemifying part. But all the work and slaving is worth the glorious yummy grape juice, that tastes better because it's homemade and you worked for it.