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tempem:
Has she declared love??
Lol.
Where are thy posts?

No mind me, i dey sleep ni.

ChemicalReaction:
Smellymouth, Explorers and Twacy

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Some people get mind sa.

These girls appears like this most of the time anywhere. No heavy makeup, no mermaid weaves, they didnt change their skin colour, just natural and simple look always.

One sister in my street, her dad is the councillor. Infact, that sister's makeup, attachments, no b 4 here o. You step on her, she calls the dpo and in few minutes boys don show in hilux.

Different people, different mentality. Some of their leaders sometimes rides bicycle to work, some have been spotted on public buses, they share downtown eateries with ordinary citizens and there will be no issue.

In some countries, a soldier(high rank) will enter a restaurant/eatery and ask everyone to leave. You question them, they flog you.


Local government chairman, SUG President having motorcade with huge security details.
SUG Presidents can't even shake, greet or sit with fellow students in thesame hall.


Some Pastors in some countries, you will ask yourself that are they Presidents, Governors, or what?
After service, members will try to greet them and Men in Black(SSS) will block them, church premises o. If you're ordinary member in some churches and not connected, you can't see the Pastor/G.O.

OsoDupe:
Nice one dude, I've always wondered how the Cork enter the wine bottle and it refusing to enter after opening it.

Thats the work of cockers, they have been designed to compress or sqeeze the cork into the bottle applying little pressure.


There are different types of cockers, the attached image is just a home cocker.
The factory cockers will be large capacity machines at the bottling line, corcking hunderd bottles in minutes.


cc: tk4rd

Sleekyshuga:
Interesting

I remember a MCBist who locally produced red wine as his M.Sc work.

Very useful information, Explorers. Well done.

Tnx

TheAziz:
explorers god bless you

Amen, u 2 bro. Thanks.

ichommy:
Explorers

Smiles....Same here bro.

Adesiji77:
Explorers, you are the man!

Thought about the cork when I opened a bottle of wine few days ago, but it seemed so inconsequential at the time.

Keep it coming...following bumper to bumper

Ive been trying to figure out the production also, anytime i open a bottle of wine, first thing is to bite the cork. Very soft, so ive been wondering what it was made of untill this morning.


Thanks bro.

Great care is taken sorting the top grade corks.

Then the corks are sorted by eye.

The corks are optically sorted: blasts of air are used to send the corks into the right grade bins.

What remains of the planks after the corks have been punched.

It is a skilled process, make the wrong decisions and the corks aren't good enough, or cork is wasted.

These workers are hand-punching corks from strips of the bark, these will be high-end corks. Others are machine punched.

This is a nice-looking piece of plank.

Next, the planks are graded and cut into workable pieces.

The boiled planks are flatter and easier to work with.

The planks or barks are boiled to soften them, and also to clean them. In the bad olddays these would be boiled in murky pits without the water being changed very often. Now, to avoid cross-contamination, the water is cleaned, filteredand replenished regularly, with volatiles being removed on a continuous basis.

This is a close-up of a piece of harvested plank or bark.

The harvested cork planks are stored before processing. Good cork companies will store them on concrete rather than bare earth, lowering the risk of contamination.


Before processing, the cork planks are put on pallets. Then they are ready for the first stage in the cork production process: boiling. The following pictures were taken at Amorim's facility in Coruche, ion the south of Portugal.

Here's a close-up of a tree that was harvested the year previously.

The year of harvest is marked on the trunk, so each tree isn't harvested at the wrong time. Cork is a great insulating material, and gives these oaks a chance to survive the forest fires that occasionally happen in the hot Mediterranean summers.

How cork is made An illustrated guide to the cork production process.



It all starts in the forest. Cork oaks are harvested every nine years, once they reach maturity. It doesn't harm the tree, and the cork bark regrows. Most cork forests are in Portugal and Spain.

Finally, the wine is ready and is prepared for bottling. Often, filtration is used to make the wine bright and clear, and to remove any risk of microbialspoilage. The glass on the left has been filtered; on the right you can see what it was like just before the process.

lalasticlala teach people to make wine na.

Some wines see no oak at all, but are kept in stainless steel tanks to preserve the fresh fruity characteristics.

Here wine is being moved from one barrel to another deliberately exposing it to oxygen to aid in the maturation process.

Occasionally it is necessary to move wine from one barrel to another, or from barrel to stainless steel tank. This cellar hand is using nitrogen gas to move the wine without exposing it to large amounts of oxygen.

Testing: Winemakers typically check the maturing red wine barrels at regular intervals, and top them up as some of the wine evaporates during the maturation process.

Barrel halls can still look quite traditional. Cool underground cellars are perfect for maturing wines a process that takes anything from six months to three years.

The inside of a tank that has been used to ferment white wine: the residue consists of dead yeasts cells.