So i was driving through a part of the world that grows a lot of cherries yesterday and all the side stalls advertising fresh cherries got the best of me. I pulled up and bought a 5kg box. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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I got them back home and pulled all the stems off. Bit of a sticky job, but didn't take too long.
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While I was doing that, my stove was busily inverting 5kg of sugar for me. cheers stove. i also added a few tablespoons of tomato paste and a sprinkle of epsom salts for good measure.
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Then i squished the cherries all up with my hands (which was oddly enjoyable) and thought for good measure, i'll hit them with my trusty paint stirrer, but i may have went a bit hard... :angry-banghead:
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i went down the local HBS and asked about some EC1118 but the only stuff they had was under a can of lemonade, which was 12 months out of date, so instead I grabbed a packet of SN9 which is a wine yeast that sounds alright. Chucked it on the top at 28 degrees and stirred it in. SG was at 1.08 fingers crossed it's bubbling tomorrow morning. :D
the plan is to run this twice through my pot still, then lightly oak on medium toast french dominoes :)
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