Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Decant
A couple of weeks ago, on or about 2nd January, decanted the first half of the sloe gin. Today was the day for the second half. The stuff had been made on 31st August 2011 by adding 100g of sugar to the litre bottle of sloes and then topping up with Gordon's finest. Decanted, we get two standard bottles of sloe gin, plus a cup left over, from a start point of 2.5 litres. The cup might vanish some time soon.
While we were in the spirit of the thing, decanted the second of the two demijohns of blackberry whisky, made with Sainsbury's own brand blended whisky - see September 28th and December 24th. The second half being the half which was not decanted early due to fermentation problems - the first half having almost but not quite stopped bubbling now. Decanted the second half on top of the first half, filling up that demijohn and resealing with the bubbler. The balance was more or less a standard bottle, sealed with a screw top. We shall see if it goes bang in the night.
Compost heap will be a couple of gallons of alcohol soaked fruit richer quite soon. What will those little red worms make of it all? Do they get drunk? Is alcohol toxic for them? Will I have the animal rights people on my case?
PS: impressed to see in yesterday's DT that Boris J. has managed to spin a morality tale out of the grounding of a cruise ship, the Titanic and our problems with our Scottish friends. Not much solids or substance, but the chap has managed to knock out a third of a square foot of copy with commendable speed. As I have wondered before, does our mayor have research assistants to do the grunt work for him? Perhaps they are called interns and do it for free?
While we were in the spirit of the thing, decanted the second of the two demijohns of blackberry whisky, made with Sainsbury's own brand blended whisky - see September 28th and December 24th. The second half being the half which was not decanted early due to fermentation problems - the first half having almost but not quite stopped bubbling now. Decanted the second half on top of the first half, filling up that demijohn and resealing with the bubbler. The balance was more or less a standard bottle, sealed with a screw top. We shall see if it goes bang in the night.
Compost heap will be a couple of gallons of alcohol soaked fruit richer quite soon. What will those little red worms make of it all? Do they get drunk? Is alcohol toxic for them? Will I have the animal rights people on my case?
PS: impressed to see in yesterday's DT that Boris J. has managed to spin a morality tale out of the grounding of a cruise ship, the Titanic and our problems with our Scottish friends. Not much solids or substance, but the chap has managed to knock out a third of a square foot of copy with commendable speed. As I have wondered before, does our mayor have research assistants to do the grunt work for him? Perhaps they are called interns and do it for free?
# posted by Jim @ 9:16 AM 
