We're packin' up the jars...

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Well, we leave tomorrow afternoon for the 5 day Annual Melvinville Spring Jar Fest, otherwise known as Martinsville. Took the campers down last Sunday and everybody is already set up, with H2O and 30 amp service. The weather looks like it will be OK, with a chance of showers Friday afternoon. That's OK tho, 'cause it'll give us a reason to do the Official Melvinville Jar Fest Mud Dance Friday night! We've got live music comin' in Saturday night to play for us and that's always a hoot! The whole bunch will be there...Canada, North Carolina, West Virginia and Hampton Roads, so it's gonna be big!

And as Security for the Annual Melvinville Spring Jar Fest, thanks to Kershaw, I've got a few new tools in my arsenal! Just wished I'd made it to NGK for the Outcast!

I'll be hangin' around tonight and will check in tomorrow AM before we leave.

But fear not for my absence my Kershaw brethren, as we will have a wireless link for the laptops! So I'll check in from time to time, and post pics as warranted (and appropriate! Some might have to be posted in another forum!).

It's gonna be big Andy, big I tell ya!

Keep things on topic here! ;)

SPX
 
brad, i thought mary beth was gonna drop it off on her way home that day? still no outcast.....im sorry man. hit clint up i think he just snagged one :)
 
reholli said:
I've got to get out more...:D

What exactly is a Jar Fest? :o

Thanks,

Ray :)
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Ray, imagine Animal House. Now imagine Animal House with a boat-load of moonshine and campers.

The event that started the Annual Melvinville Spring Jar Fest is the spring NASCAR race at Martinsville. We started going about 20 years ago, and the same bunch kept coming back to the same spot each year. We really don't know each other's names (or can't remember them when it's all over), so we simply refer to them as Canada, West Virginia, etc. While there will be 65,000 people in close proximity, The Annual Melvinville Spring Jar Fest has a following of about 60 people. The other 64,940 seem to enjoy camping, sleeping, cooking out and socializing for a few days and on Saturday and Sunday enjoy not being able to hear, being hit in the back of the head with chicken bones and empty beer cans, and generally being put in conditions PETA would complain about if they were cattle. This event is replayed again in the fall, with the Annual Melvinville Fall Jar Fest.

Over the years, things have evolved, and now none of our bunch actually goes to the race...we're too busy sampling each other's home-made jars o fun! A typical day starts off with you wandering out of your camper (if you were lucky enough to have made it inside the night before) early in the morning and someone immediately hands you an ice cold jar, and you dig into your cooler to pull out one of yours. Sampling then begins. This continues throughout the day and well into the next day's early morning hours until only one person is left standing. This repeats itself until Monday morning. At times, there have been dozens of jars being passed around at one time. To keep your palate clean, beer and whiskey is used in great abundance to refresh your taste buds. Music is always present. Oh, and sometimes we stop to eat, too.

There are 3 basic types of jars: Corn, sugar and fruited sugar (NEVER fruit corn, that's an abomination and will cause the rest to play pranks on you, usually setting small fires around your camper and waiting for the resulting panic of the people inside, giving all watching a good laugh). Fruit varieties vary, from basic damson to cherry, apple, strawberry, blackberry, grape, orange, blueberry and pineapple. Basically, if it is a fruit, you will find someone that has put it in a jar. Corn is the king, and we will be taking 4 gallons. Sandy and the rest of the wemmen like the fruited and fancier stuff, like apple pie, which is made with cinnamon, apple juice and apple cider, and apple jack, which is apple, with extra sugar and cinnamon.

So to summarize, it's 5 days of drinking home-made likker, fires, music and laughter!
 
Maybe you should call it JARSTOCK like Woodstock............ only with more fruit!:D
Where there's alcohol there's :o nudity and stupidity.:eek::confused:
Sounds like fun! :D:D

Pictures will have to go into The Good The Bad And the Ugly sub forum.;)

Be safe have fun. Don't do anything some of the other forumer's here won't do!
 
SPXTrader said:
Ray, imagine Animal House. Now imagine Animal House with a boat-load of moonshine and campers.

The event that started the Annual Melvinville Spring Jar Fest is the spring NASCAR race at Martinsville. We started going about 20 years ago, and the same bunch kept coming back to the same spot each year. We really don't know each other's names (or can't remember them when it's all over), so we simply refer to them as Canada, West Virginia, etc. While there will be 65,000 people in close proximity, The Annual Melvinville Spring Jar Fest has a following of about 60 people. The other 64,940 seem to enjoy camping, sleeping, cooking out and socializing for a few days and on Saturday and Sunday enjoy not being able to hear, being hit in the back of the head with chicken bones and empty beer cans, and generally being put in conditions PETA would complain about if they were cattle. This event is replayed again in the fall, with the Annual Melvinville Fall Jar Fest.

Over the years, things have evolved, and now none of our bunch actually goes to the race...we're too busy sampling each other's home-made jars o fun! A typical day starts off with you wandering out of your camper (if you were lucky enough to have made it inside the night before) early in the morning and someone immediately hands you an ice cold jar, and you dig into your cooler to pull out one of yours. Sampling then begins. This continues throughout the day and well into the next day's early morning hours until only one person is left standing. This repeats itself until Monday morning. At times, there have been dozens of jars being passed around at one time. To keep your palate clean, beer and whiskey is used in great abundance to refresh your taste buds. Music is always present. Oh, and sometimes we stop to eat, too.

There are 3 basic types of jars: Corn, sugar and fruited sugar (NEVER fruit corn, that's an abomination and will cause the rest to play pranks on you, usually setting small fires around your camper and waiting for the resulting panic of the people inside, giving all watching a good laugh). Fruit varieties vary, from basic damson to cherry, apple, strawberry, blackberry, grape, orange, blueberry and pineapple. Basically, if it is a fruit, you will find someone that has put it in a jar. Corn is the king, and we will be taking 4 gallons. Sandy and the rest of the wemmen like the fruited and fancier stuff, like apple pie, which is made with cinnamon, apple juice and apple cider, and apple jack, which is apple, with extra sugar and cinnamon.

So to summarize, it's 5 days of drinking home-made likker, fires, music and laughter!
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Thanks SPX for the explanation...enjoy and hoist a jar for me! :D

(Surprisingly Google had basically nothing to say about this, hence my question.)

Ray :)
 
Have a great time Brad!!;)

I got me a feelin' you have a LOOOOOOONG weekend ahead of ya!!:D

Cheers,
Jon
 
bring. advil.

It even comes in little 2-pill (I think) packets about the size of a condom package. Slip one in your pocket, and no matter where you wake up the next morning you've got a remedy for that pounding headache.
 
Drink water along side your favorite poison and you won't even have a pounding headache next morning. (Old pro's trick...don't ask... :rolleyes: )
 
Well, we're home, safe and in one piece! There were about 15 different offerings this spring, and no one left with a drop remaining.

Since we've all had so much fun here with the give-aways, I decided to do a little one there on my own. I gave away 2 Kershaws, a PE Mini Cyclone and a Mini Mojo, to the popular vote. The Cyclone went to a local boy (Franklin County VA) for his excellent corn (I still think mine was better, but someone else needed to win), and the Mojo went to Pennsylvania, for a fruit blend of grape, plum and black cherry. Now I'm not a big fan of sugar, preferring a good corn, but man that stuff was good! All in all, we went thru about 20 gallons!

Just as you'd expect, there was drinking, nudity (not me, just some of the wemmen), stupidity, live music and the Mud Dance. And I think there was some sort of race there, too.

...my brain hurts...
 
SPXTrader said:
There are 3 basic types of jars: Corn, sugar and fruited sugar (NEVER fruit corn, that's an abomination and will cause the rest to play pranks on you, usually setting small fires around your camper and waiting for the resulting panic of the people inside, giving all watching a good laugh). Fruit varieties vary, from basic damson to cherry, apple, strawberry, blackberry, grape, orange, blueberry and pineapple. Basically, if it is a fruit, you will find someone that has put it in a jar. Corn is the king, and we will be taking 4 gallons. Sandy and the rest of the wemmen like the fruited and fancier stuff, like apple pie, which is made with cinnamon, apple juice and apple cider, and apple jack, which is apple, with extra sugar and cinnamon.

So to summarize, it's 5 days of drinking home-made likker, fires, music and laughter!
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I used to get some of the finest NC 'shine from down around North Wilksboro. What I prefer is the brandy, in either peach, apple, or pear. There was an older, I mean older, gentleman in my neck of the woods (southern foothills/mountains of N.C.) who had served federal time back in the 50's for moonshine production. I befriended him and would go over to see him some. He still sold corn whisky, but he made some of the smoothest pear brandy and apple brandy I have EVER tasted, and it was for drinking, not sale. When I went to vist, the corn was put up and out came the good stuff!! No other alcohol hits you like the 'shine does, it is a very unique experience!!

Have a great time and stay safe!!:thumbup::thumbup::D

Btw, the brandies are made from the fruits themselves that have fermented with the addition of sugar. Too look at what goes in and then to taste what comes out..............well, you wouldn't think it possible!!
 
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