Where I am today

[Mash]

Bored with eating strawberries, today I started a wine with them.
I may have to poke & ferment with more yeast, but it all keeps you on your toes.

Robert.

Strawberry chilli jam. Yum

[Mash]

Joys of working at home every so often mean I have been able to do the spirit run on generations 1, 2 and 3 of my first ever UJSSM. Got a lot of jars to blend tomorrow.
Also stuck the airstill on and ran a batch of the "apple juice" gin from the recipes section but with orange juice instead.
Plus I finally remembered to dry out some yeast for Ice.

All while doing my day job

I have always maintained proper jobs are overrated

[Easydrinker]

What's a proper job?

Robert.

[Mash]

Exactly. Good man.

[Elecrafter]

I'm out in the shed. I've cleaned the still, and now I am producing several gallons of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide for personal use.

[DorsetScott]

I'm out in the shed. I've cleaned the still, and now I am producing several gallons of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide for personal use.

Careful with that stuff, it can cause suffocation if you're not careful

[Easydrinker]

I'm out in the shed. I've cleaned the still, and now I am producing several gallons of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide for personal use.

What is the chemical formula for that one?
Looks like H20 to me, what do you do with water then?

Robert.

[Elecrafter]

I'm out in the shed. I've cleaned the still, and now I am producing several gallons of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide for personal use.

What is the chemical formula for that one?
Looks like H20 to me, what do you do with water then?

Robert.

Well done ED, I keep a 5L container of it on the kitchen worktop, and I get a few funny looks from some of my friends. They think its some awful chemical!

I distil water for medical purposes and home use. But its fun watching people realise what it really is!

Cheers

Ele.

[Mash]

Lol.
I think some hazchem stickers are required

[gaza the instructor]

You gotta have stickers, Bill Stickers is innocent!

[Easydrinker]

Bored with eating strawberries, today I started a wine with them.
I may have to poke & ferment with more yeast, but it all keeps you on your toes.

Robert.

This did have a little more yeast, and sat looking like an inactive muddy puddle for several days.
All changed this morning. Even the colour came back!

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I now feel inspired to try a few more new wines.
10Kg Riubarb came out of the freezer tonight to do the usual Icefever 'barb. wine.
Probably another 20Kg needs picking.
Why are days so short?

Robert.

[Mash]

Why are days so short?

Start to worry when they get longer!

[Elecrafter]

Not worried about shorter days. More worried about NO days at all!

[Easydrinker]

Turnips!
I have them.
Not using this recipe though-

Original Receipt in 'The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy' by Hannah Glasse, 1747 (Glasse 1747);

To make turnip wine.
TAKE a good many turnips, pare them, slice them, put them in a cyder-press, and press out all the juice very well. To every gallon of juice have three pounds of lump sugar, have a vessel ready, just big enough to hold the juice, put your sugar into a vessel, and also to every gallon of juice half a pint of brandy. Pour in the juice, and aly something over the bung for a week, to see if it works. If it does, you must not bung it down till it has done working; then stop it close for three months, and draw if off into another vessel. When it is fine, bottle it off.

What a load of tosh!

I will adapt this one;
Ingredients: Turnip Wine

4 lb / 1,800 grams turnips
3 lb / 1,350 grams sugar
1 lemon
1 orange
Water up to 1 gallon
Yeast nutrient
Wine yeast

Method - What to Do

Scrub, thinly slice the turnips and boil until just tender. Place the sugar into a fermentation bucket and strain the turnip liquor over it, stirring well to dissolve the sugar. When cool add the lemon juice, orange juice, yeast nutrient and wine yeast. Cover and leave for four days in a warm place, stirring daily. Strain through a fine sieve and put liquid into a demijohn and fit an airlock to seal the jar.

Store in a warm place and allow the fermentation to work. When fermentation has ceased, rack the wine into a clean jar and place in a cooler environment and leave. When the wine is clear and stable siphon into bottles.

Robert.

[Mash]

FFS I thought parsnips where bad enough!

[gaza the instructor]

Turnip Wine??? To much of that could cause large explosions and
even self detonation.

[Easydrinker]

My old dad got into "country" wine making 40 odd years ago,
The parsnip one was the only drinkeable one.
I am assuming that you are making a cheap joke there Mash and not stuck in a mindset?
Denigration is not the path to self promotion.

Robert,

[Mash]

Lol.

Cheap gag, probably. Turnip wine tho.. Could does not mean should!

[gaza the instructor]

My son turned up Thursday afternoon (my Birthday), in his newly acquired
Skyline GTR. Its a bit girly pink I said. He told me that it changed colour in
the light. He also said it was more beautiful and comfortable than my
Bentley. What a load of tosh I said and its a Nissan, or is that Datsun, maybe
its a recycled Sunny?
So he pulls out a bottle of Designer Gin, Sicilian Bloody Orange and gets some
Tonic out the fridge. With Ice and a slice it was very nice, but not £32 nice.
I go to the brew shed and pull a bottle of my latest Bitter Orange (mark 12)
Two bowl G'n T glasses Fever tree Mediterranean Tonic, crushed Ice and fruit.
Pour two decent G&T's and tell him he must leave his pink Rice burner on the
drive over night. He was dumbstruck and questioned if I really made it. Cheeky
git. To cut a long story short we finished the bottle and in a drunken state
admitted that Bentleys are more comfortable than Nissans as I bundled him into
an Uber Which was like his a rice burner.

[Icefever]

My son turned up Thursday afternoon (my Birthday),

A very belated birthday greeting dude...hope the hangover was not too bad on the following morn???

Ice.

[Mash]

Not a bad way to spend your birthday - your boy and a brew.

Happy birthday fella

[Easydrinker]

Happy that your whipper-snapper still bothers.
You must have done something right in his early years.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Ah!
So, you had to get him smashed, to agree with you on the Bentley?

Robert.

[gaza the instructor]

I know this is wrong,but do you remember the car key ring game ?
Well put your keys in, Nissan ! Ha Ha Ha! Could have been Morris
I hear you say. Well Morris Garages is MG Thats cool. And the Morris
minor Cooper S. Off the chart man, but Nissan belongs with Datsun.
Even if they did make the 240z (which was uber cool).

[Jennysgin]

Got the train through to Stirling today to do the Stirling Distillery Gin Tour, courtesy of Itison.
'Twas a lovely wee day

Took my friend and the assorted weans as gin is apparently "devil's juice" according to hubby

After ditching the kids at the shopping centre to prowl the shops and spend all their pennies on junk we ran up the hill to the distillery.

It's a small craft distillery just down from the castle and only opened in the Stirling premises 2 years ago. It had previously been stilled in Glasgow while they waited for the right location.

We got a welcome cocktail and tasted their current gins and liqueurs.

If you're ever in Stirling I'd recommend a wee visit