{"id":120,"date":"2013-10-23T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2013-10-23T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:13:55","slug":"scrumpy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/scrumpy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrumpy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to make scrumpy, which I *think* is made from apples crushed with water as opposed to cider which is made from freshly squeezed apple juice.\u00a0 I went to the lovely local library and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1848377533\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1848377533&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hombrebeg-21\">BREWING: A step-by-ste guide to making beer, wine and cider by Jack thompson<\/a>.\u00a0 I then followed the recipe for &#8220;Scrumpy Cider&#8221;.\u00a0 Well, I say followed, but as usual my impatience got the better of me.\u00a0 It says &#8220;roughly chop the apples&#8221; then cover with lots of boiling water, then &#8220;crush every few days&#8221;.\u00a0 I did this but nothing happened for 5 days.\u00a0 I imagined that the yeast had been fried.\u00a0 Maybe I should have let the water cool down.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I came home 5 days after it started to find still no action at all.\u00a0 I blitzed the apples with a hand held food mixer and shoved in some bakers&#8217; yeast.\u00a0 Apparently some recipes have raw meat, but I didn&#8217;t fancy that.\u00a0 It got going right away and five more days later it looks more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is in a few days when I mix it with other ingredients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-22-16.51.29-e1382537065863.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-119 alignnone\" alt=\"2013-10-22 16.51.29\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-22-16.51.29-e1382537065863-1024x950.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-22-16.51.29-e1382537065863-1024x950.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-22-16.51.29-e1382537065863-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to make scrumpy, which I *think* is made from apples crushed with water as opposed to cider which is made from freshly squeezed apple juice.\u00a0 I went to the lovely local library and found BREWING: A step-by-ste guide to making beer, wine and cider by Jack thompson.\u00a0 I then followed the recipe for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/scrumpy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scrumpy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bramley-2013-10-scrumpy","tag-scrumpy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}