Thursday, November 15, 2007
A fine solutionI seem to be full of pun lately.
Can't help feeling annoyed with myself - I've been waking at the most unearthly hours, i.e. working day waking hours. The standard of working 8 hours a day (which effing idiot came up with this?) is just so wrong for the circadian rhythm. We should all start work at 10am and go home at 4pm sharp. Makes working so much less like work.
The primary fermenter in the bathroom is slowing down already, and just as I was fretting about when to bottle or to leave it to develop more flavours, Yx came up with a really good solution! So, I'll be bottling half of the batch and leaving the other half in the fermenter for 10 more days, and then we'll have good fun tasting and comparing them. The mead's still fermenting strongly though! I have no idea what honey I used, perhaps it was adulterated. The usual (and awfully expensive) clover honeys etc have quite little in way of nutrients and are kinda semi-solid or very viscous at any rate. The one I used is wild honey from Malaysia, and it pours out like syrup. The silly thing's still bubbling away, and it'll be a couple of months before I find out if that pot sitting in my room actually turns out to be god's nectar or bacteria soup. Eeeks. Am so tempted to get a few more 25-litre carboys to make several batches concurrently. That, of course, would be illegal (I'm only allowed 30 litres apparently, and I can't sell the stuff as bootleg - as if anyone would risk getting poisoned anyway!!) And furthermore, mom's already shooting me dirty looks every time she hears the fermenter bubbling away, and I suspect my tinkering and experiments are stretching their limits already. =P
Dad's been awfully curious about that I'm doing in the bathroom (I was going to claim that I'm cultivating and isolating novel antibiotics, but then again I might as well claim that I'm hatching pet Martians in there ..) but mom and I talked about it - we aren't telling him it's beer. He will most likely either:
1) Steal (most of) the unfinished product, or
2) Stick a finger in to taste the stuff, or
3) Add stuff in to try and help with the taste, or
all of the above.
OK, supposed to start on waxing the car, but I'm feeling o o o h s o o o l e t h a a a r g i i i c. Right, you get my point. Ooh yes!!!! Time to use the detailing clay again on the car today!
Wenky
6:14 AM
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