Beyond in Hove
Beyond starts up in Hove later this month. Beyond is another "church" that breaks the traditional boundaries, it’s being started up by some great people, so if you are down in the Brighton/Hove area, check it out.
27th April 7pm
Old Market Theatre, Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1AS
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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We have been using Waitrose sherry for about 12 months – very prompt delivery and no complaints about taste etc – and lots of good offers for other wines as well!
I have to say I haven’t come across many oppressed vintners in my part of the world…
In the Baptist church we are currently using red grape juice but in the past we used to have something that called itself “Non Alcoholic Communion Wine” that tasted like imitation Ribena. Any not used was carefully poured back into the bottle and it wasn’t unknown to hear it hiss the next time it was opened as natural fermentation started!
On the assumption that it is just wine until used in a service couldn’t your choir help you out with any extras?
Hugh, as good Anglican we never pour the unused wine back in the bottle – once consecrated it’s always drunk (although I’ve always found it a duty than a treat to drink up a cup of wine that a dozen or more people have sipped already!). But once the bottle is open it needs to last on the shelf for a good few weeks – OK for sherry but not for table wine.
For the Methodists among us, does anybody have any hints about fair trade non-alcoholic communion wine?…although I suppose any appropriate and fairly traded substance would be fine…
Hugh, sounds like you have found a way to brew your own alcoholic communion wine.
Maggi, why don’t you just use ordinary wine, and take the unconsecrated part of the bottle home to drink with your dinner? I think that’s what my vicar does.