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okay it's been a while. the holidays were pretty boozy and i'm pretty lazy.

so the kilju. i started drinking it just before xmas and ran out just after the new year. for the most part, i just poured out a bottle when i wanted some. it was pretty fucking boozy, i'd say between 15%-20% alcohol, way more of a kick to it than wine.

it wasn't very tasty. less disgusting than i thought, but still not great. it went down pretty easy with diet ginger ale. i generally drink diet soda because i like the taste and because i have a girlfriend, but it also worked well because the kilju was WAY too fucking sweet. it probably could have fermented another month or so and still not have been very dry. other people said it was fine on its own, though.

it didn't clear very well, even after a few days in the fridge when i finally bottled the remainder.one of my friends ran a bottle i gave him through a brita a few times and said it cleared up quite a bit more after that.


mine was still full of live yeast, but the hangover wasn't all that bad. a couple people have told me that it was an odd drunk, like, a little more clear-headed than usual, which i would agree with. but maybe we're all full of shit.

anyway i started a new batch on january 18 and it has half sugar this time. i also got an airlock from a friend of mine. i didn't have any bungs that fit the water bottle, so my girlfriend used a gluegun to attach the airlock to the cap that came with the bottle, it's worked out pretty well. uhm...not perfectly though, but that's my fault. see, being the smart guy i am, i decided i'd sterilize the airlock in boiling water first. the heat was too much and he got a bit deformed. so while it's still airtight and letting out CO2, it's not bubbling in the normal way. I'M A CHAMP!

new kilju recipe:

• 15L bottle of water
• 2kg sugar
• 18g fleischmann's dry active bread yeast
• shake, put on your airlock and leave it for a couple months

so now, the blueberry wine. when i was bottling the last of my first batch of kilju, i decided to try the blueberry wine. it was fucking tasty, and very clear. so bottled some of it. initially i thought it was boozy, but after drinking lot of it i realized it was probably only 4%-5% booze. i should have let it sit longer, or maybe the fermentation was stuck...but, it was there so...the whole batch got drank.

okay! i also started a batch of banana wine and a batch of regular grape-based wine but i'll make a new post for those.