95% methanol? Is that what made you blind?

Can you remember your first wash? Mine was a school project many decades ago. We arranged a visit to the local whisky distillery and cadged some yeast from them for experiments in the chemistry lab. We did two series of experiments based on the chemistry of brewing and of distillation. Back then ...

So is rum our big secret then?

There is a curious difference between the lists of topics shown depending on whether I am logged in or not. Logged in I see the Rum and Rhums topic, logged out it doesn't appear on the list. Hardly the end of the world as we know it, just one of those odd things.

Jim Beam lost 45,000 barrels in a fire in July this year but it might be a year or two before it has any impact as they held young whiskey, presumably less than a year old.

Clematis netting, good strong stuff. I have a roll going up the end wall and forming a ceiling in the greenhouse for my cucumbers.