You sound like me. Anyone up for a discussion on the best boxes wine? There certainly is bad and good out there.

Jim
> 
> I'll stick to my 5 liter boxes of wine.  Quantity, not quality on my budget.
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Jim Felder
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 5:14 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: OT & NVC & Pre-Friday: Palcohol?
> 
> Years ago the Felder Enterprises Consumables Division put some nice Cab on
> the stove and simmered it to almost a solid, figuring I could backpack with
> the gel and some PGA and reconstitute it into wine with local water
> filtered along the trail. Turned out that endeavor, like so many Vanagon
> projects, was way more complex than originally thought. I hope these
> Palcohol guys can nail it.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
> camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well, if it's a Real Thing then I will be (a) hornswoggled, and (b)
>> pleased.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
>> 
>>> On 04/24/2014 04:42 PM, Rob wrote:
>>> 
>>> At  4/24/2014 05:55 PM,Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Please forgive -- this is best suited for Friday but I won't be able to
>>>> post on Friday and I have a burnin' desire.
>>>> 
>>>> Unless you've been living on Mars this past week, you've heard about
>>>> "Palcohol" <http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/21/palcohol/> purported to
>>>> be "Powdered Alcohol."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A 10 second search with google turned this up.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
>>> 
>>>>> According to food chemist Udo Pollmer of the European Institute of
>>> Food and Nutrition Sciences in Munich, alcohol can be absorbed in
>>> cyclodextrins, a sugar derivate. In this way, encapsuled in small
>>> capsules, the fluid can be handled as a powder. The cyclodextrins can
>>> absorb an estimated 60 percent of their own weight in alcohol.[1] A US
>>> patent was registered for the process as early as 1974.[2]<<
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Rob
>>> vwrobb@gmail.com
>>> Volkswagen Enthusiast ....
>>