Episode #295: Back from Harvest - Listener Communications - Live

Summary

In this episode, the team discusses the surprisingly bountiful grape harvest and the intricacies of the winemaking process. They share videos and insights from their live show, aimed at engaging with their listeners more closely. The episode also features responses to various listener emails, enriching the community feel of the podcast.

Key takeaways

• 1Over 30 tons of grapes harvested this year
• 2Winemaking process explained in detail
• 3Live show format introduced
• 4Videos showcased during the episode
• 5Responses to listener emails were read and discussed

Source

Transcript excerpt

Listener Communications. You are listening to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast. How do we do this? I forgot. And welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demons and monsters and serpents, this is Brothers of the Serpent Podcast coming to you live from the 10x10x10 Tangent Cube of Science where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards Plateau covered in wine. Wine stains everywhere. So we had a huge harvest and it was amazing. I got sick and then Kyle got sick at the end of it. Yep. But we're on the back end of it. There's still some harvest stuff to do. We'll talk about that. But yeah, we got some videos to show you guys of the harvest process. Whoops. Oh, end of show. I forgot I was supposed to meet him myself. That was a great show. I think that was a great show. Show up. This is easy. Take a break for a while and then it was like, oh, this is the fastest two hours of podcasting. So yeah, there were a lot of 12 and 14 hour days, especially for Kyle. Well, in some cases we were staying away from home because the facilities we were using, we had so much grapes from the harvest that our facilities at the vineyard couldn't handle it. I mean, not even close. No. There's no way. So we had to use other places, other wineries. We basically were renting in a, what is it? It's custom crush. Well, one of the places is we were doing essentially a custom crush operation, which we pay them and they basically do it. They crush the grapes. They put them in their tank. ...

Excerpt from Brothers of the Serpent, Sep 4, 2023. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.