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haele

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3. A Hard Cider home Brewer I know typically tossed the entire crate and started over.

Reply to Act_of_Reparation (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 6, 2021, 02:19 PM

Oct 2021

It was always harder to carefully weed through the bad apples in time to save a few apples before they went into the press than to just get a new crate and quickly sort.

Since he practiced making cider the way his grandparents who learned from their grandparents did, I suspect that was usual practice back in the day.

Toss the crate and start over.

Haele

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One Bad Apple spoils the whole bunch is the saying. [View all] haele Oct 2021 OP

agreed. and while it's interesting as a linguistic phenomenon, it's also interesting politically unblock Oct 2021 #1

It's also a load of horseshit when applied to people. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2021 #2

A Hard Cider home Brewer I know typically tossed the entire crate and started over. haele Oct 2021 #3

It happens in police forces cojoel Oct 2021 #4