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I was watching 'how to drink' again today (an excellent show - I watch it even tho I don't/can't drink) and I was reminded for once while I was AT HOME that I started trying to make bitters and had set up extraction jars like....over a year ago 😬😬😬

I of course get assaulted with the smell of ec when I sniff a container, but some of the stuff I've spilled on my hands is pretty nice!

Ok so, even if I fucked some things up I think just this basil extract (?) I made makes up for it. Couple drops in club soda and I have a tasty, non alcoholic beverage!

The apricot didn't get as strong as I'd hoped and seems to need something else to help bring it forward. I still have thw apicy apeicot bits so I might grind them up and give them a good squeeze for extra apricottiness.

My hands smell pretty good rn lol. I wonder how much alcohol I might have absorbed thru my skin while doing this?

I probably should have been wearing gloves through the whole thing, but I *did* wear them when decanting the wormwood bitters as I feel like I've created an uncle iroh situation (delicious flavouring, or nerve affecting poison?)

They're all some variation of milky and gritty. The ginger looks to be almost entirely solid, with maybe an oz of liquid on the top (down from like, 4 oz of alcohol...). Haven't poked it yet though.

The cherry and cranberry *smell* ok? And I didn't cough or wanna heave from mold exposure. Idk what I'll do with them. 'When in doubt, throw it out' is the food service motto my partner has imprinted on my brain.

And finally, the troubled one. Cacao:

Every time I try to make cacao bitters it turns into dubious slop. I saw that greg from htd *also* ended up with a certain degree of slop, and then he was able to use his vacuum distiller² to separate the slop from the bitters. That's some science-y equipment I don't own, and am not serious enough about making my own bitters to get.

I was watching 'how to drink' again today (an excellent show - I watch it even tho I don't/can't drink) and I was reminded for once while I was AT HOME that I started trying to make bitters and had set up extraction jars like....over a year ago 😬😬😬

I of course get assaulted with the smell of ec when I sniff a container, but some of the stuff I've spilled on my hands is pretty nice!

Ok so, even if I fucked some things up I think just this basil extract (?) I made makes up for it. Couple drops in club soda and I have a tasty, non alcoholic beverage!

The apricot didn't get as strong as I'd hoped and seems to need something else to help bring it forward. I still have thw apicy apeicot bits so I might grind them up and give them a good squeeze for extra apricottiness.

My hands smell pretty good rn lol. I wonder how much alcohol I might have absorbed thru my skin while doing this?

I probably should have been wearing gloves through the whole thing, but I *did* wear them when decanting the wormwood bitters as I feel like I've created an uncle iroh situation (delicious flavouring, or nerve affecting poison?)

that I had to sketch you some fresh baby scrunglo jacks

His hat too big for his gotdamn him:

Fledgling jack - a little fly guy, but not strong or skilled enough to carry his dad yet. Still got a bit of baby fluff!

ave some more baby because I realized I made an oopsie on his leg benders-

Solar doesn't need his boots, right?

Ferocious sponge hunter - biting and killing!

that I had to sketch you some fresh baby scrunglo jacks

His hat too big for his gotdamn him:

Fledgling jack - a little fly guy, but not strong or skilled enough to carry his dad yet. Still got a bit of baby fluff!

ave some more baby because I realized I made an oopsie on his leg benders-

Solar doesn't need his boots, right?

Ferocious sponge hunter - biting and killing!