Woo hoo!

Currently sipping on my first glass of home brew whiskey, and looking at trying a Caribbean rum afterwards!

Fail

Home brew

Right, first batch stilled off and in the filter for the first pass.  Second batch in the still.  New wash in the fermenter and running.

 

The second wash is still burping away, will check it tomorrow night to see if it can be cleared.

Home brew

The first batch has been in the still for an hour now, and I’m just starting to get spirit!  WOO HOO!!!!

Finings

Right, the second stage of the finings is in.  Smells very beery.  Distillation tomorrow afternoon!

Home brew!

Very happy – the 2^nd fermenter has been going off its nut all day, it’s blown the contents of the airlock out twice.  Not bad for 3 days from pitching.

 

The first batch at just over 5 days from pitching has hit 985 SG and is no longer gassing, so I’ve degassed it (nothing) and done the first stage of fining about an hour ago, off to do the second stage now.  Distillation tomorrow night!

 

Little bastard fish have eaten the entire skin off 2 hunks of zucchini, but not the flesh.  If they don’t chow down on the core by tomorrow morning it’s coming out.  Tank continues to lighten but slower now, I may need to change the filters entirely to scrub the last of the particulate carbon.  The peppermint bristlenose catfish are lightening to a chocolate colour with milk coffee spots as they grow, which is apparently their normal colour.  One albino is growing much quicker than the other.

 

The idiot and increasingly irrelevant CEPU called a spot walkout at work this afternoon, precisely ZERO staff walked off the job.  Supposed to go until COB Thursday, we’ll see how many are there tomorrow.  I think the CEPU are quaking in their boots.  I would be in their position.

Things you learn

Protip:  if your fiancé asks what music you’d like at the wedding, do not reply “The end of the world as we know it” by R.E.M.

 

Trust me on this one.