Making Perry – Part 2

After letting the juice rest for around 20h I added the yeast. I’ve used this stuff before and it gave good results. It’s a high alcohol tolerance strain, so will tend to ferment to a higher ABV than I want. I’ll check in a few more days and stop the fermentation at 8% ABV or …

Making Perry – Part 1

I had access to a tree full of pears for a weekend. With the help of Meagen, we picked two large bags of pears of various ripeness – around 25kg I’d later come to know. I don’t actually like pears as a fruit, so I’d already panned to make perry from them. I’ve done this …

20 years

20 years ago I was turfed off a train at Bow Road due to an electrical issue. 20 years ago I walked the rest of the way to work. 20 years ago I was just trying to read the BBC news website (it was very slowly loading) when I received a panicked phone call from …

Boosted

It’s conference season, lots of meeting up with people from all over the world. Statistically, at least one person will be carrying COVID (case rate is currently 1.7 per 100,000 people, many people attending will have travelled internationally, number of connections exceeds 100,000). I wasn’t eligible for a free booster this year, so I paid …