[Sca-cooks] Tonight on the Food Network - Biblical Foods

[Yehoshua ben Haym]

Actually yeast has nothing to do with it. The restriction is on "Hammetz"
which is a technical term involving grain and water in contact for 18
minutes without cooking. Wine is made from grapes therefore no problem.
Don't forget no one knew what yeast was when these laws were codified.

The reason that kosher wines tend to be very sweet is that the grapes were
being grown in New York. Some of the wines from Israel are quite good.
Someone gave my lady a bottle of wine from a winery near Shilo that I am
quite looking foward to trying. I think its a new winery.

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Yehoshua ben Haym haYerushalmi
Senischal soon to be Shire of Beit Aryeh
MKA Zachary Kessin Jerusalem, Israel
zkessin at cs.brandeis.edu IM:ZachKessin LiveJournal: zachkessin

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> Also sprach ekoogler1 at comcast.net:
> >What about meads and metheglins?  While I haven't looked at it, I
> >suspect that Stefan has a number of great recipes in the
> >Flory-thingy.
>
> I could be wrong, but as far as Passover is concerned, I think
> there's a two-edged sword for fermentables, both because of grain
> products and because of yeasts, so even honey-based fermentables
> could be a problem.
>
> Yes, there are Kosher wines (a few of them are even drinkable), and
> I'm not sure how that works, but I think that's more derived from an
> exception to the rule rather than an absence of one, if you follow me.
>
> I suspect Kosher wines might be fermented completely between Passover
> seasons, and repeatedly racked and/or filtered to remove any traces
> of live yeasts. All performed under the supervision of an
> appropriately trained rabbi, I assume. I further suspect (but have no
> real evidence to support this suspicion) that some Kosher wines are
> so sweet because it allows one to be fairly sure when most or all
> fermentation has stopped. I mean, if there are dormant yeasts, and
> you add sugar or fresh juice, you'll probably see fresh yeast
> activity (but which you're looking for not to happen...). I guess the
> dryer Kosher wines may be filtered.
>
> Adamantius
>
>
>
> >  > A bunch of us here are thinking about starting brewing. Ofcourse this week
> >>  is kind of bad as passover starts monday night and its forbidden for jews
> >>  to own beer during passover, never mind drink it.
> >>
> >>  Now we just have to figure out where to get brewing stuff here in
> >  > Jerusalem.
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