Balrog's bellowing bowels greet the dawn with a blast of the bog time bagpipes. Vodka vultures fly away, rum ravens leave the cave, unicorns hold breathe as they move deeper upwind into the forest, a great commotion and mass migration from around the balrog cave takes place. Much coughing and spluttering and complaining about air quality is heard from the elves. Dwarves swearing at balrog, not nice words too

Balrog shuts lid, chants spells of the flush working, opens window and sends morning offering to the underworld. Gives another flush then bids a gingerly retreat incase the water level is still high and the lid opens and it escapes

A day to start the magic, add the yeasts to the banana and the cereal brews, a wine yeast with nutrients for the banana, a dry ale yeast for the cereal. Shall get done soon, balrog must clean cave, last slave died of not doing what it was told, now balrog got to do it himself



Restart brew is bubbling away braw, other sugar brew is still bubbling but slower, leave them till bubbling stops then check readings. Was very optimistic that the general purpose brew would be done by now, timetables and brewing are not accurate yet in the balrog cave.
Mead is still bubbling away, slowly but still bubbling away. Same for banana wine, but volume level is touching the bung and airlock, must remove some brew and adjust for this. Leave the racking till no bubbles happening then reload with sugar and start again the magic cycle of fermentation.
Need to get lemons and limes, oranges too, bakers yeast, Lowicz, VWP cleaner, more brewing yeasts and restart products, brewing bags, textbooks, pocket calculator. The list goes on and on, catering supplies, fermenting bins, demijohns, essences, sample bottles, has to be done though.
Might get an initial mead ferment going, then add citrus in a couple of days as a top up. Got an initial ferment started with orange mead going in a litre Lucozade bottle cause the wide bottle neck fits a bung and airlock



Point to ponder: what is the best ratio of citric to malic to tartaric to ascorbic acids for a acid blend? Have seen 1:2:3:1 citric to malic to tartaric to ascorbic but is that for wine, what about for each fruit brew, surely each fruits have own ratios of organic acids


A day for reading research ahead, starting to get too far ahead of himself is the auld balrog, slow down and learn more deeply the basics.
Balrog must go hunter gathering, munches spell has been cast on the auld balrog, beans on toast incase balrogs gets dumped into babysitting, that teach them.
SAB