6/13/20, Greyhound

The medium batch was good strength though a tad sweet. We found beautiful ruby grapefruit at the farmers market and squeezed out fresh grapefuit juice. We used 1/3 cup per bottle, 1/2 tbsp sugar to make 10 bottles of grapefruit.

The large batch was good strength but also on the sweet side. We used 1/3 tbsp sugar and made 13 bottles.

The grapefruit was pulled after 3 days and was not explosive. It was on the sweeter side so will used 1 tsp sugar next time if the batch is sweet.

6/5/20, Strawberry-raspberry

The medium batch was on the sweet/weak side. We used fresh strawberries and raspberries and pureed and added 1/3 cup plus 1 tsp sugar and made 10 bottles.

The large batch was also on the weak/sweet side. We made 13 bottles with 1 tsp sugar.

We pulled the straw-raspberry at 2 days and it ok – slow eruption but manageable.

5/28/20, Pineapple Mint Express

Large batch was strong and slightly sweet but not too vinegary. We wanted to try something different so we added 1 tsp chopped fresh mint leaves, 1/3 cup blended thawed frozen pineapple and 1/2 tbsp sugar. We made 10 bottles.

The medium batch was strong as well and we made 12 bottles using 1/2 tbsp of sugar.

We pulled the first pineapple at 2 days and it had a pop with some decent fizz. The rest were refrigerated at 2 and a half days and with the additional half day bottles were started to ‘erupt’ more.

5/20/20, Plain

We did another all plain bottling. This time both medium and large batches were quite strong. We made 20 bottles using 1/2 Tbsp of sugar.