Come Fly With Me

2 hour early morning training ride?
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Front garden deweeded (more or less)?
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Mackerel processed into brine and now pickling?
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Wheat beer homebrew now fermenting?
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Productive day all told. I like this 'making' things. It's a little different from normal cooking, or baking. I like getting the processes into place, and then the waiting game (though there's the chance of disappointment, of course, like when my homemade Patxaran just wasn't up to scratch). But I couldn't resist the fresh, beautiful mackerel I saw in the fishmonger yesterday, and I've been wanting to try pickling some fish for a while; and is any excuse needed for a bit of homebrewing? (the wheat beer will have some orange hint to it, which I'll keep an eye (or tastebud) on - the airlock has already gurgled at me once tonight, so the yeast has already got itself to work on the sugar. I've got the grain and everything else for a saison after that, which I'm going all out on a rose flavouring, aiming for something akin to Little Creatures from Australia, but that's a few weeks off yet, oh, and will be stealing some of the wort from that to give my little copper still a shot as well).

It's all very "Why Don't You...." for those of us of a certain age. Although I don't remember the kids ever making booze....