[MR] Society for Creative Anacreontics

[Towey, Brian]

Friends and neighbors,

It's been a while since I proposed a kook idea, so here goes.  

Wine bottles are more period than beer cans, but the modern ones that you
can buy with wine in them are, well, modern.  I've been thinking of getting
a small cask to take to wet events.  But, the risks of leakage or spoilage
in a wood cask are pretty high.  I don't really relish the prospect of
cleaning a quart of spilt burgundy out of my car, or of trying to sterilize
an oaken vessel that is contaminated with acetobacter and turns wine to
vinegar faster than you can drink it.

Sometimes there's a good reason why we don't do it the old-fashioned way any
more.  

Here's a possibility.  Has anybody tried this?

Ingredients:
- five liter bag-in-the-box wine package
- small wooden cask with stand
- drills, X-acto knives, etc.

Recipe:
- Carefully extract the bag from the box. 
- Examine the way the spigot and box came together
- Make a door in one end of the cask
- Tap the other end with a hole the proper size
- Fashion some clever gadget to mate the spigot to the cask
- Optionally, get a brass keg tap and figure out a way to attach the bag to
it without spilling the whole thing
- Slither the bag into the cask, secure the spigot, and let the party begin

For the teetotalers among us, I hear that the empty bags from such wine
boxes make good water containers.  They might serve just as well for lining
water casks.

Spodie-Odie,

Charles Fleming