Moodmusic: "A soft and warm sofa, and a lazy night with film, not sure I can manage the pace"
Todays memories and soundbites
"Welcome home and get well soon"
"Today was a growing day with soil temperatures reaching something like summer"
Drink
Time to do some bottling and ..... tasting ..... yippeeee
Homebrewed sloe, currant and damson wine. Variation of C J Berry recipe.
Fermentation started last September. Racked May. Bottled tonight.General purpose white yeast.
3 lb ripe sloes. Put them in the freezer overnight to burst the skins.
3 lb sugar
1 lb currants
1 lb damsons
Water up to 1 gallon
Yeast nutrient
Wine yeast
Put sloes and fruit into a fermentation bucket. Pour over boiling water. Add the sugar and stir. When cooled to blood heat add the yeast nutrient and wine yeast. Cover and leave to ferment for 7 days in a warm place. Stir daily. Strain into a demijohn and fit an airlock to seal the jar.
Sloe view
7.5/10
Well it's turned out on the dry side of medium. Quite strong (don't do alcohol measures) I'd judge about 11%. Crisp light fruity flavour evocative of autumn hedgerows, certainly British.
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