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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Forgot to post it, it bumped down my packing time for a holiday. Should have taken shortcuts but instead I had less sleep

A truly sickening amount of grape juice, juiced under duress, with a strange type of yeast used under cold conditions

Grape jar A, approx reading for specific gravity is 1.33 on the enormous grape juice unit

A smaller 1.27 reading on the grape and blueberry vessel done while extremely sleepy last week, I really hope this turns out drinkable

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yeast is in, it’s a little cold but we’re holding around 1.096 at two measures, there’s a lot of fruit pulp in the way. Off to the races

Incredibly blurry photo of fruit juice with a hydrometer

Incredibly blurry photo of even more fruit juice with a hydrometer

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Time for a new brew, this one is set honey, lotus flower, and blueberries. Give or take 1.5kg of honey and 800g of blueberries.

Another vat of shimmering red and purple liquid, full to the gills with sugars ready to become tasty wine

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Swapped everything over now, it’s a nice orange colour now. Doubt it’s gotten significantly stronger but the sweetness has become a nice dry finish so that’s a plus

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is the entire movie

Man with bottle of Powerade, kissing the bottom of the bottle menacingly

Man with a bottle of Powerade getting ready to drink the entire thing in one go

The foolish man who dares to mock the design of god drinks the entirety of the bottle of Powerade in one large chug, dooming himself to the sin of arrogance

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is stronger than 5% but I did only get to around 1.03sg. Maybe I shouldn’t have primed the bottles with as much carbonation sugars…. Oh well. It’s missing something but I can’t put my finger on what.

A hydrometer floating in a dark orange/brown beer showing a post fermented gravity reading, so that sugar levels can be estimated and assumed coverted into alcohol

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Oh no, I can feel the hype already… This better make me ugly cry at the end

The first complete poster for the new Cyperpunk Anime, showing 4 new characters

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

And for when I forget, this is starting around 1.053 sg, and I’m aiming to finish around 1.01 sg ish, so a little over 5%. Wish me luck, it’s hot as hell here and I may have used too much maltodextrose

Hydrometer reading of some fine looking sugar water

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Oh yeah, I forgot, I’m brewing again. This time it’s meant to be Helles lager, not quite sure what to make of it yet but I think it’ll be strong. The top blew off once when I was pitching the yeast and sprayed foam everywhere at like midnight, but it’s calmed the passion a skosh now

A giant metal vat of thick dark ooze with foam on top, bubbling menacingly

Brown foamy liquid pouring into a giant white funnel with large chunks of crystallised sugar catching in a trap filter

A beer fermenter that blew its top and threw foam everywhere because I added too much yeast nutrients and it’s pretty hot here, wearing a jacket and with a hose airlock, sitting on top of a fan

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I made beer last week when the weather started turning better, it’s a porter that’s meant to have a tinge of sweetness to it. Starting gravity was around 1.153 Ending gravity was around 1.129 That gives about…. 3.2% alcohol Looks like it’s a light dark beer hahaha

Brown sugar water pouring from a metal cylinder into a large funnel entering a giant plastic fermenter to turn into dark beer

The raw brown beer with beige foam on top, with a sugar density measure sticking out of the top, ready to be locked air tight for about a week of fermenting

The fermented final product beer with a more solid and uniform dark brown colour, with a sugar density measure floating at the centre

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Forgot to throw these in last time, this thing is gonna be a weapon. Bochet #1 is looking at 1.14 sg Bochet #2 is slightly less at 1.139 sg It’s bubbling away nicely for the moment ✋😌👌

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It’s finally sunny after genuinely 3 months of perpetual clouds and rain, that means it’s bochet prep time

Very bubbly red liquid with floating red and black dried berries inside, with a viscous colour split throughout due to the near molten sugar I kept piling into it

Red liquid in a glass that looks like a health potion from a PS2 game

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Lee Van Cleef may be what the children refer to as looksmaxxing

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Grapes have so much sugar in them like woah. Forgot to photograph it but the end levels were about 1.005~ on these Full Juice wine 1.08 -> 1.005 = 10% Half Juice wine 1.063 -> 1.005 = 7.7%

Cloudy grape juice with a gravity meter reading 1.081 for sugar content

Standard gravity reading inside more grape juice reading 1.063

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Here’s all my stats i can remember. Mead 1 - Shiny Red: 1.06 -> 1.004 = 7.35% Mead 2 - Brick Red 1.043 -> 1.004 = 5.2% That was before the infusion and back sweetening, which had around 250ml of maple syrup into it

Specific gravity measurement at start for mead 1, quite high at 1.60

Specific gravity reading at beginning for mead 2, at a lower 1.42, and a duller colour.

Specific gravity reading at end for mead 1, looking to be 1.04, with visible growth of yeast within the bottle. Standard end stage mess

Specific gravity reading at end for mead 2, at the same 1.04, much less yeast splashback, reasonable from the less sweet beginning

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

So I put an entire melon into each bottle this time. Then lemon and lime juice, because they were on sale. Absolutely no idea what’s happening here, I’m hoping if I leave them another month they’ll drop out

Two large glass jugs with what looks like glow in the dark paint water inside them, but it’s actually white wine with what i thought were two identical melons, now they’re neon

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This stuff has clarified so well, swapped it into a clean jug and left it alone for around a month. It’s looking like a nice rich red, but I’ve mostly forgotten what’s in it at this point. Wanna say passionfruit and cranberries infusion at the end, with some maple syrup

Two large glass jars filled with a dark red liquid which some people would say counts as wine even if there aren’t any grapes in it, who are me i am those people, hello

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Getting into my mad scientist era

Four large glass containers, 2 appear to be filled with multicoloured seeds giving an overall red colour & have hoses connecting to the neck with red liquid creeping up the tubes, and 2 appear sickly green with plastic airlocks bubbling frantically. This does not appear overly appetising, even though these will become some form of wine

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

And the second one, not as fun, 1.04 to 0.994, which makes for about 6%. If it gets to 11% I’d be happy

Darker red juice with a bunch of tasty sugars just waiting to get their bonds munched on

I don’t know why I talk like this, this one just looks like a nice colour red

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Let’s see, a drop from 1.06 to 1.003 makes for about a 7.5% base, let’s see how far this goes. That’s the bright red one anyway

High sugar red juice about to get munched on my brewing yeast

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It’s been a while, they’re down to no sugar, let’s add a bunch of maple syrup and cranberries

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I really crave punishment apparently

Two large glass jugs, filled with a deep red liquid with some foam on the top from recent stirring. The liquid is red from almost 100 cherries and a kilogram of honey per jug. There are white rubber stoppers on the bottle necks, with plastic airlocks on top

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Well goddamn, apparently this mix of strawberries and passionfruit was better than the dragonfruit and raspberry. At least the colour isn’t as good

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Made one with a friend who wanted to use strawberries as well, really wasn’t expecting it to work but what the hell do I know

Strawberry pulp bubbling wildly in sugar water, yeast absolutely thriving

Filtered strawberry wine at its secondary fermentation start, looking extremely red

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Not bad, a little over 10% for first pull, I’ve throw in a little more sugars to use them up for a quick secondary blast

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

At least the last small batch came out well

A weird mesh of colours and textures that look like chemical run off in a brewing jar

First filtered results make this a red wine technically, with no weird grey lumps from dragonfruit chunks left

Stats for nerds, a level of a hydrometer for checking an estimate of alcoholic content post brewing

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I let this go for waaaay too long, like an extra week because I was lazy. Oops

A large container of freshly fermented beer, looking as orange as the fruit with floating additives that need to be separated

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Forgot to show the final result, still been too lazy to calculate the strength 😅

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Oh no I’m on the wrong island time

A clock designed to have the numbers fallen out of the usual positions, almost saying don’t worry about it

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Ohhhh I get it now, they say the arm must flow but like I understand it now? I feel it??

A plastered section of brick wall, fresh and drying in the sunshine. The plaster is damp but it is holding, the quality of the work improves from right (amateur) to left (better amateur) to a point where it looks like lessons were learned and applied throughout the works.

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hell yeah let’s finally finish this stupid wall!

A cinder block wall that has recently been what can kindly be called as plastered, with hand mixing equipment in the foreground, and damp patches around the footpath where water has washed up several mistakes

A red breasted robin standing over an earth worm, freshly plucked from the ground behind him, perched on a paved walkway brick. The robin has a root of a plant in his beak from digging through the planted section

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I always forget how much I like it here when it’s sunny

A rocky patch full of dense overgrowth overlooking a still bay cracking against a stone beach reaching as far as can see, without a cloud to keep the sun from covering every inch in warm light

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Ohhhh that explains why my car smells like a lady

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I spilled like a third of a bottle from syphoning too hard and soaked my work trousers yesterday, but the batch is almost fully captured. All I need now is a dumb name and it’s perfect ✋😌👌

A plastic glass bottle crate full with 20 bottles, topped with green bottle caps, sitting on a kitchen table. There are some brewing tools and spill kits in the background

A shot glass and a large plastic brewing vessel, both half full of a cloudy passionfruit and peach flavoured cider, the small measure is the first taste of the batch while bottling

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Okay let’s see if this final reading changes after some settling time

A hydrometer floating in dark reddish cider, it reads 1.04

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Absolutely wild to see a public bus even just existing after 11.30 at night

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Girl with No Face has buried deep into my brain, this album is incredible

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Forgot to add the flowers until now, but better late than never! Reading on this looks about 1.03 now, better check how strong this means before I try it

A measurement tool floating in a bath of freshly fermented cider, dark in colour and opaque in clarity

A mixture of flower petals and smoked wood pellets suspended in the same mixture as before, surrounded by a thick film of bubbles giving it a marbled texture of raspberry ripple ice cream

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Rønan @ronespeak.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sunshine makes me want to make more things, never tried making cider before but I had a lot of fun putting this together. It’s mixed berry, no idea what percentage I’m aiming at but it’ll brew for a week

A truly remarkable feat of engineering pioneered by an unparalleled brain genius - a whisk in an electric screwdriver

A deep bergundy liquid with a measure stick floating inside it, measuring the standard gravity to estimate its density

A packet of cider yeast with temperature limits and a terminal alcohol percentage level - this is high in every region

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