Tuesday Morn

Impressionism / Gregoire Boonzaier/ 'N Paar Ou Skoene

Everything is cooking along reasonably well.  As usual at work there are the petty office politics that petty bureaucrats play, but I am working on letting go of that being an issue to me.

Mycelium is developing.  Right now there is good growth in the half-pint wide mouth starter jars.  I would estimate around a 65-70% infiltration.  All of this is a learning experience, so I have no idea how this will play out.

Brewery production is always apace.  I try to brew/bottle one every three-four weeks.  That lets me drink a bottle of beer every day or so without having to go to the store and buy into the industrial brew/package/transport environmental mess that brewing has become.  Granted, I have to buy a couple of bottles of craft beer every month to replace the bottles that get broken or non-returned, but that isn’t too much a burden.

I am casting a weather-eye on my distilling.  I go long periods of time without distilling as I am suspicious of this activity.  I like a good Manhattan, but it isn’t a necessity.  Summer is coming up so gin and tonic’s are muchly appreciated so I might delve into that.  But overall, I am not seeing the need to run the still more than once three or four batches a year (each batch yields a fifth of 100 proof).

Ten minutes until my walk to the max.  Closing this down now.  See you in the funny papers.