{"id":151,"date":"2008-01-04T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/the-other-kind-of-hangover\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T13:00:15","slug":"the-other-kind-of-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/the-other-kind-of-hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Kind Of Hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I described an easy way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/how-to-clean-a-big-fermenter-without-scrubbing\/\">clean a large fermenter<\/a>, and concluded that, &#8220;It takes very little time and effort on your part, leaving you free to make more wine!&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t wrong about that, but there is a little snag lurking in that happy and optimistic statement: you have to actually take the time and make the effort or it won&#8217;t get done. It&#8217;s a problem I hinted at in my article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/02\/bottle-washing-day\/\">washing bottles<\/a>, when I talked about setting bottles aside &#8220;until I can wash them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sad but true: They won&#8217;t clean themselves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that a lot of things get set aside for a not-quite-as-brief-as-I&#8217;d-hoped interval. I know you bachelors out there are confused, &#8220;Just do that later, we&#8217;ve got wine to make!&#8221; you&#8217;re thinking. I know because that&#8217;s what <em>I<\/em> thought. But, stay with me for a minute, what happens when the things you need to make wine with need cleaning? What happens when other things, that you may not need right now, form a physical barrier in your wine making room? Right now there&#8217;s a 5-gallon bucket filled with water sitting in my utility sink. The place I&#8217;d move it to, next to the sink, is occupied by more buckets that need cleaning. The other side of the sink? One-gallon jugs that need to be cleaned. Some of you may have realized where I&#8217;m going with this. Sometimes you&#8217;ve got to do the cleaning <em>today<\/em> so you can make wine <em>later<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I described an easy way to clean a large fermenter, and concluded that, &#8220;It takes very little time and effort on your part, leaving you free to make more wine!&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t wrong about that, but there is a little snag lurking in that happy and optimistic statement: you have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenance-and-cleaning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}