{"id":10212,"date":"2012-02-16T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2012-05-12T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T06:52:43","slug":"hobbies-of-the-clergy-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/02\/16\/hobbies-of-the-clergy-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbies of the Clergy #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Venerable John T., a noted cleric of\u00a0our missionary diocese, is engaged in an innovative outreach project –\u00a0wine making<\/strong> from the most varied of nature’s resources.<\/p>\n

This particular hobby combines his love of birds<\/strong> (he and his family are keen “Twitchers”<\/a>) and wine making<\/strong>. How? Well, this is the narrative as I understand it:<\/p>\n

It’s amazing what wine can be made from:\u00a0honey, flowers (dandelions, roses, jasmine), leaves (walnut, oak, elderberry), seeds (corn, rice, almonds, coffee), stems (rhubarb, grapevine),\u00a0and roots (parsnips, ginger, beetroot, carrot)! But nothing too oily; e.g., coconut, peanuts, chocolate. Some of John’s wines have more than one basic ingredient: Beetroot and Pineapple, Clove and Ginger.<\/p>\n

But how do you bring bird watching into wine making?<\/p>\n

Well, each variety of wine\u00a0is named after a Tasmanian bird. But this naming is not haphazard! The\u00a0name of the key ingredient in a wine is\u00a0matched with the name of a Tasmanian bird that the wine maker has sighted and photographed. Moreover, the\u00a0name of the key ingredient and the name of the bird must be\u00a0alliterative – this\u00a0is essential!<\/p>\n

Hence, Wattle Bird Walnut Leaf,<\/em>\u00a0 Firetail Fig and Banana<\/em>\u00a0 and Albatross Apricot and Date<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some sample labels:<\/p>\n

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Outreach activity? Yes, invite friends to guess ingredients and suggest labels. A fun time. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Note: this outreach activity comes with health benefits 1 Timothy 5:23<\/a> and a health warning! – Proverbs 23: 29-35<\/a><\/p>\n

PS\u00a0 I can personally commend the wines \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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