I jinxed it, I think. The first batch of the nut wine didn’t go as well as I expected. While there’s some smell akin to fermentation smell, all of them tasted like juiced dirt water, bitter on the tongue. I can still make out the special aftertaste of each nuts species in the back of my throat, though, so not all is lost. How do I make this sweeter, I wonder? The alcohol content is not that high, either. Hmmm… Whatever. No need to rush. At least now I can drink a little bit to help me sleep at night. I just need to keep the production going, and experiment a little bit one batch after another.

And today is the nuts field harvest day too. Deducting the nuts needed for replanting, I decided to split the harvested nuts into two halves. One half is to make the second batch of nut wine, and the other half is to be turned into nut paste.

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For the second batch of nut wine, I decided to just mix all the nuts—yellow nuts, blue nuts, and red nuts—and divided the mix into three pots, instead of the one kind each pot approach of the first batch. My intention with this is to see what kind of mixed aftertaste result will be made, and if that aftertaste can drown down the bitter taste of the nut wine.

Still talking about nuts, in the field, I replanted 100 red nut patches, 100 blue nut patches, and 100 yellow nut patches. It doubles last time just in case some creatures appear, and ransack the field in the future. It happened twice so far, with the slime and the pigs, so what’s going to stop the third time? The stone fence was made only to be a small deterrent, after all. If my nuts are going to be destroyed before harvest time either way, then wouldn’t it be better to just plant a lot of them, and still be able to harvest enough for consumption after half of them got destroyed.

Better to have more than less, I guess.