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Wednesday 26 September 2012

Late night brewing

We decided that yesterday was the day for brewing, we couldn't wait any longer, the problem came when we weren't quite ready for brewing at 4 o'clock because the fruit was thawing out, and then Brandon had to pop to look at a job, after that he came round mine and had a cup of tea, the time was sneaking on and by the time we got back to his it was 7 o'clock, then we got into a deep chat which involved some tears and some honesty (we sometimes talk for hours about how we feel about certain subjects) time was sneaking on it's half past 8, Brandon is eating his dinner, I am starting to feel sleepy (I am awful with staying awake in the evening/night time I am such a morning person) I am also getting a little grouchy and the more tired I am the more I trip my words up and say random things. So we decide to brew anyway, we start at 9 o'clock we get EVERYTHING sterilised I didn't realise you have to be so meticulous, the sides, the untensils, the sink, the buckets, us, the demijohns, you name it we sterilised it. Then we cracked on with making elderberry port, it was then we realised we were missing a few key ingredients, namely oranges, sloes and suger. So off we went to the shops, the only shop open at quater to 10 is tesco on the other side of town, so we drive there, we pick up the oranges and suger and pop back to my nans to get the sloes and back to making the port at Brandons, we decide also at the last minute to make elderberry and blackberry wine, so we do that too, it takes a few hours to put all of the ingredients together (hopefully I will have the videos up soon, just need to firstly get Brandon to send them to me and then edit them) I am in bed by about 12:30, and although that may not seem late to anyone else, to me that is quite a late night, especially for brewing alcohol. But I am VERY excited to see the results, hopefully we haven't made a sleepy mistake!