Well I did a pretty bad job of keeping up with the notes for this project…I’ll try and do better this year.

The final batch of the year, Frozen Dead Guy, turned out ok. I didn’t get as much spruce out of it as I would have liked, but it may have been that the spruce tips were older than I would have liked. I’ll try again with some fresher ones.

So it’s the new year and I’m thinking about new ideas to try. I’m starting off with an old idea again, the cherry blossom tea sake. It uses salted, pickled cherry blossoms. It gives the sake a definite savory flavor. It is a good cold weather brew for sure. Not much cherry flavor in the mix, but I’m looking to play with the Kaze no Mori yeast I procured and see if it adds more of that fruit quality.

I’m also going to try and do the squid jerky bottle and cups sometime this year. We got a convection oven that has a dehydrator function. The idea had always intrigued me.