Tonight I checked the chemistry of the strawberry guava melomel must.
Specific gravity: 1.093
pH: 3.34
Titratable Acidity: 0.55
All within range. I made up a yeast starter with about 250 ml of the must, plus the yeast, yeast nutrient (DAP), and the Fermaid, and left it covered in the kitchen until it was nice and foamy: about 2 [...]
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift, but generosity and indifference to money; not caution but courage and contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love for truth; not tact but love for one's neighbors and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
