On Home Cinema Distancino

Spent the morning planning and assembling an indoors / outdoors home cinema in Dad's garage for the Captain's 11th birthday.

The plan is that the projector and screen go inside the garage and the seats and kids go just outside.

The current Scottish government rules allow unlimited numbers of 11 year-olds to gather and he's in the same class as his guests so we're all good.

Looking further ahead the garage is going to make a really good home cinema. I reckon you'd get 10 or 12 people in it comfortably.

On Ginger Beer - Drinking Batch 2

Cracked open a couple of bottles of Batch 2 Gold today whilst watching the rugby.

Gold blend is the beefier blend with extra ginger and lemon from lemon rind.

1st bottle was nicely bright. Big flavour; good ginger but the lemon is little bitter. It's giving a decent backbone to the taste but it's probably too much.

2nd bottle was a bit fiercer on the ginger and this helped with the overly bitter lemon. I also managed the sediment better when pouring.

So next Gold Blend probably has half the lemon. Need to have a think about counter-acting the bitterness but retaining the structure.