I'm still not doing much juggling at the moment on account of a dodgy wrist. However, I am still doing some handstands & a bit more balancing. I had my first glimmer that I might be able to hold a dual balance last night which felt good. To watch me though you'd never say I was anywhere near yet though. Andy joined us from Hastings. He has had a porpoise skeleton rendering down for a while in his garage, he was saddened that an animal had made off with it this week. Kevin & I sympathetically joked that he had lost his porpoise in life. We also had a family 3 newbies this week who seemed very keen. The father was already competent with a 3 ball cascade & his kids were enthusiastic diabolo players.
#twjc
Andy & I also came away from this evening with ginger beer plants courtesy of Emily. However, I got the only copy of the instructions, so for Andy's benefit:
Every day for 6 days stir in 1 tsp sugar + 1 tsp ginger.
On the 7th day stir in the juice of 2 lemons. Strain through muslin or a fine sieve into a huge bowl. Stir in 8oz sugar + grated peel from the 2 lemons. Add 8 pints of water + extra ginger to your taste.
The sludge you filter out is your next plant. Divide this in 2 & put in jam jars, add 1 cup of hand warm water (I've also read that you should let the water stand for a day so that any chlorine evaporates off before adding it to the new plant) & 1 tsp of sugar & ginger to start the process again.
Remember she has already been feeding it for a week so it should be ready on Saturday. I'm quite excited about how this is going to turn out!
#recipe
Surely handstands are worse for an injured wrist than juggling? I used to do handstands a bit but had to stop because it was injuring my wrists.
Well done with the dual balance. I remember my excitement when I first made some corrections and realised I would be able to do it.
It seems illogical I know but handstands really do help me. I think the repetitive impact of clubs does more damage to me than the stable constant weight held during a handstand.
Thanks. Lost my porpoise gained a ginger beer plant. Fair swap if the fox, badger, other animal (?) enjoyed a medieval delicacy.
Getting ready to bottle today - should we have a tasting next week at HCC? Don't forget it's a table tennis prop night so if you feel like doing a one handed handstand and knocking a ping pong ball around - I won't stop you.
I just bottled mine. I know you're supposed to leave it for a bit for best results but I couldn't resist a quick taste & I'm going to try less lemon & more ginger for the next batch. What did you think of yours?
Don't keep the ginger beer for too long, I discovered as a 12 year old that it can continue maturing after bottling and become slightly alcoholic.
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I seem to remember that after bottling, it can build up quite a bit of CO2 as well - to the point that if your bottles aren't up to the job, it can explode.
I also seem to remember that fizzy drink bottles can stand an obscene amount of pressure. More so than a lot of glass bottles.
During my brief stint brewing beer, I was told that fizzy drink bottles were much better than most glass bottles that weren't designed to hold pressure (eg most wine bottles, posh still water bottles). If you wanted to bottle into glass bottles, you were supposed to buy much more expensive bottles for the job. Naturally, I used coke bottles.
Off-topic--but there are two downsides to using coke bottles for actual beer. The first is that they don't protect the beer from being lightstruck and getting skunked (versus brown beer bottles). The second is that thin walled PET bottles can be slightly permeable to oxygen, and (in theory) for long term storage they can cause oxygenation. That said they definitely are good to prevent bottle bombs. I'd definitely use them for homemade ginger beer & root beer (which the way they are commonly made are massive risks for bottle bombs), just not for beer beer.
No such thing as off topic here!
When I first learnt that I would be acquiring a ginger beer plant I did put word out that I wanted some empty 2 litre drinks bottles but unfortunately none had appeared in time so I bought myself some glass Grolsch style bottles instead. They are currently being stored out of the light & my first batch isn't particularly fizzy so I don't think I will be suffering any explosions at the moment.
I will hopefully have some plastic bottles in time for when I have improved my method.
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