West Beers : Every Thursday @ The Lamb Brewery, W4 4PH

We're down at canal level.

Well that went well!
@jdmitch & @hamrack picked up their Lebanese goodies and we had a couple of pints down at canal level. Bit breezy with the strange weather. Haven't worked so hard to average just 13+mph all Summer with a headwind no matter the direction of travel, and no sweat, all wicked away!
Then off out of NW10 to the A40 and home by 8pm.
Would early doors again.

@skydancer
Your damsons will be in the freezer for a future rendezvous.

@jdmitch
Sloe gin.
Empty gin from bottle. Pour in 8oz sloes* (checked for twigs/leaves, obvious signs of mank), 8oz sugar, (some demerara adds colour). Top up with gin leaving some headspace. Invert bottle 8 times a day to ensure the sugar dissolves and the sloe-y essence dissolves into the gin and the colour is leached out of the sloe skins. Store each day out of daylight, sa exposure to UV will lessen the abstracted colour.
Enjoy as a warming alcoholic linctus after meals.
When approaching empty, invoke brewers/distillers' rights and have the sloe sludge served under a mound of proper custard. Do not expect to get much of anything done that afternoon.

• Sloes were traditionally picked after the 1st frost. As we are not all indentured day labourers we can mimic the 1st frost by freezing the sloes. The expansion of water upon freezing bursts cell walls allowing the sloe essence to be dissolved/solubilised into the gin.
  

That's very wonderful. Ta!

Do let us know what your dinner guests thought of your Lebanese-inspired starter.

This week?

@fasih @hamrack @hippy @Sifta
@skydancer @moorhen
@thebrenthamtaffy @ChewyCheeks

We know @ffm & @Oliver Schick are out.

Out too. Have a friend round for dinner.

T-day minus 7, I'm out

thanks for the detailed recipe - have frozen the sloes for gin and stoned the damsons for a crumble tomorrow (might mix with berries rather than apple).
The mana'ish starter proved a hit, and kept the guests at bay until the main course was ready... I had far too much, so I had it reheated for snacks for a few days. Lovely!

I'll be much further west.

Understandable:
There will me many more Wests Beers,
You have only the one deadline day.

You'll soon start to see the colour of the sloe skins leaching into the gin once you start, unless you use brown/moscovado/demerara sugar that will give the gin a brownish hue.

This week?

@fasih @hamrack @hippy @Sifta
@skydancer @moorhen
@thebrenthamtaffy @ChewyCheeks

We know @ffm & @Oliver Schick are out.

Hi
Probably not I’m afraid

Work people leaving drinks tomorrow...
:(

Hippy, is that you?

@hamrack
Have you submitted?

My extension came through so no, not yet. However, another week another completed chapter draft. One more to go!

Keep at it!

Congrats! that's a burden off to have the extension!

Not tonight recuperating. Should be back in 3weeks or so

Shifts? Or kids?

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14447483/

Do we want a Steel 11th Birthday bash?

One more?
Week, or chapter?