corwin3083
Well-Known Member
Last night, I was preparing to make cheese for the first time: a batch of paneer. I was laying out my ingredients, milk, lime juice, my stock pot, colander, cheesecloth, listening while I did so to the steady hiss of the batch of Skeeter Pee in a bucket next to me, covered with a tshirt because as I understand it, wine yeast likes a little more O2 during its initial fermentation stages, and supposedly Skeeter Pee isn't an hospitable environment for yeast to begin with.
I was enjoying my evening; life has been difficult lately, as happens sometimes, but fermenting and cooking always make me feel better. And then....THERE WAS A GIGANTIC SPLASH AS ONE OF MY F()&&*# CATS LANDED ON TOP OF THE F(&%^#( TSHIRT DRAGGING IT AND THE CAT INTO MY PRECIOUS BOOZE.
DAMMIT.
Sigh.
She spent the rest of the evening sitting next to me for comfort as she licked off every inch of wet fur several times over. Because if a cat is going to jump into your fermenter, of course she's going to rub it in afterward. Meanwhile, I had another homebrew, and reminded myself that if Skeeter Pee is tough for yeast to live in, surely that bodes well for surviving a meeting with a cat's a$&.
I was enjoying my evening; life has been difficult lately, as happens sometimes, but fermenting and cooking always make me feel better. And then....THERE WAS A GIGANTIC SPLASH AS ONE OF MY F()&&*# CATS LANDED ON TOP OF THE F(&%^#( TSHIRT DRAGGING IT AND THE CAT INTO MY PRECIOUS BOOZE.
DAMMIT.
Sigh.
She spent the rest of the evening sitting next to me for comfort as she licked off every inch of wet fur several times over. Because if a cat is going to jump into your fermenter, of course she's going to rub it in afterward. Meanwhile, I had another homebrew, and reminded myself that if Skeeter Pee is tough for yeast to live in, surely that bodes well for surviving a meeting with a cat's a$&.
