Good catch, I must not rinse either, honestly. It is cold out, then. I'll only have a cut gallon milk jug with the cloves plus a tbsp of baking soda, and a pint container half-filled with alcohol to wash them. So I really don't have a place to rinse them. I can picture the motion, but it must be just swishing them in the alcohol one last time. I know for sure that some are in the alcohol for five minutes while some are only a couple minutes, because I peel and evaluate them and throw them right in. First peeled for that row gets the longest soak.
A couple things I noticed last year, leaving some scapes on, was the huge bulbils on the tended garlic. A dozen dime size, some even penny, instead of fifty or sixty BB or quarter inch bulbils in the walking stuff/closely spaced stuff. Also, quite a bit of variability in the scape formation. Seemed like those were two of the classification/grouping keys. So I kind of wrote that off, worrying about how to group them.
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