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<\/a><\/p>\nLuckily we have a Big Beer Bucket for the fermenting and I’d gathered 2-litre coke\/lemonade bottles for the bottling.<\/p>\n
We squished the tops to allow for expansion…<\/p>\n and while they mature & expand (within 2 days they were ROCK HARD), here’s the blog equivalent of hold music – the ridiculous and frankly showing-off head of flowers on one of my rose bushes (my hand included for scale here):<\/p>\n And, a week or so ago, we cracked open the first bottle:<\/p>\n It’s\u00a0rather\u00a0tasty. It appears to be quite fall-y-over-juice-y. We have 4 precious bottles, and 2 are gone already, shared with selected company. I hope to make at least 2 batches next year…<\/p>\n And the title of this post? This afternoon somewhat out of the blue Joel was asking about the film “Cloudy, with a chance of meatballs” which was the film we saw for Lily’s birthday treat in 2009. No idea why he was asking about it today (“but Mummy, why was it a pasta twister?”) but when I was thinking of a title for this post, it popped into my head (because the champagne is quite cloudy). Plus we had meatballs on our teatime pizza today (yum!).<\/p>\n p.s. 2009’s efforts can be followed here<\/a> and the results here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After last year’s let-down on the Elderflower champagne front, I nearly missed the Elderflower Flowering season *again* this year. I’d got into my head that setting it off was far more complicated than it is. Then I read the recipe … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n