PosyP wrote:
Rosemary, you are way too funny! I think I will stick to my chili chocolate and not try making chilli mead although I always have a liter of alcohol waiting to be combined with a fruit in season and sugar, whatever suits my fancy at the moment. My next glass will be raised in praise of your mirth!

Haven't heard of that one, another brew my friends did was using pineapple, which came out rather well.

A different friend who became known as 'The Hooch Master General, for brewing above and beyond the call of sanity' once made a gallon of chilli mead with 4 oz of red chilli pepper in it :shock: It was said that you always knew where the bottle was, as it made it's way around the campfire - it was just to the right of someone gasping for breath

Did you ever have the banana liqueur they make in the Canary Islands? We bought it once because of the shape of the bottle and it turned out to be quite nice. Especially on fruit salad.

Thanks for finding that Roseanne.

I seem to remember my friend mentioning using banana :shock: in hers, but that might have been a different brew - hic!

Hummmm....me, too. Will see how the fall goes and they ripen ! :

Thanks for that Roseanne. I have never made alcohol before (except for Sloe Gin) but with the photos it looks quite manageable. I might just give this a try when the elderberries are ripe.

Elderberry Port? Your wish is my command!

Interesting discussion here:

http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?5105-Elderberry-Port-recipe-formulation

And a recipe (complete with instructions & lots of photos)

2lb elderberrys
1lb Oranges
7 pints water
1/4 oz wine yeast
3lb sugar

here:
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=26058

Reetzbobeetz wrote:
I don't think I do know more than you. I we just both call the trackpad by different terms. It's the pad on which you control the cursor unless you have hooked up a mouse to your laptop. I sent you an email about this.

Lois you know more than me because i don't know what a 'track pad' is???? I know that I have a MacBook OS X version 10.6.8 - but that's all. I usually just go to file on the scroll bar at the top of the page and click on 'file' and then 'save as'. Is that what you mean?

crocus999 wrote:
Lois, this sounds just too geeky for me. I'd only be able to say " I have a computer, and I know how to email people and get on the TQS forum. No digits, no versions, no Pro!

Boy, oh boy have I got you fooled! I just know enough to know that Rita has to be running the same operating system on her Mac for the features to be the same. The only reason I know how to find my operating system no. etc. etc. etc. is because I have to give to technical assistance every time I need help with something. Let me tell you that is fairly often.

loise98 wrote:
Lois, this sounds just too geeky for me. I'd only be able to say " I have a computer, and I know how to email people and get on the TQS forum. No digits, no versions, no Pro!

Thanks, Lynn, for all the info. It really helps. Thanks for taking the time during your busyness to get back to us.

Reetzbobeetz wrote: Rita, I just bottom clicked on my track pad and I got a window similar to the one Margo has showing up on her PC and I found a "save image as" on the menu. I have a MacBook Pro and I am running Mac OS X version 10.7.4. Hope that helps.

Thanks Margo. No 'right click' on a Mac but I did save the whole page to my desktop so that I can find it later if I need to.