I’m sorry I didn’t make many notes about this book.  Must have been a September read.

PDQ killer is quiet for 15 years.  Then all of a sudden murders start again.  The real PDQ didn’t do it and he’s trying to get the cops to find the copy cat.

I remember that I liked it.  Giving an 8/10

Started this book on 12/17/25.  Finished on 12/30/25
First time reading author.  Let’s see how it plays out.

Story line was good.  Characters well written.  Not too many characters to remember.  Chapters were fairly short.
A young football high school star has to move to a new town and isn’t liked by the new team.  He gets unalived and Alyson Rush, the new P.I. in town has to solve the case when the Haven police won’t touch it.  Secrets crawl out of the fog.  Did the racists do it?  Did one of his team mates do it?  Who stole the dog?

Read it and find out.
I’m giving this book a 9/10 for keeping my interest and short chapters.

Jazz book.  I liked it.  Last few chapters were about new jazz so I skimmed those.

Took me a long time to read this one though.  35 days.

9/29/25 – 11/2/25

Giving this a 9 out of 10.

8/9/25 (Day 1)
64 oz Pineapple Juice
64 oz G.V. Apple Juice
S.G. = 1.050
1/2 packet 71B

8/24/25 (Day 16)
Racked off lease.  Stabilized!!!
No additions yet.

9/4/25
Added pineapple juice to fill to 1 gallon mark.
ABV = 6.5 BEFORE pineapple juice

9/9/2025
Kegged and set pressure to 20 lbs to carbonate.
6% ABV in keg.

8/9/25 (Day 1)
2.8 lbs Frozen Dark Cherry (Great Value)(Thawed for 24 hours)
2 lbs Kevins Honey
1 Gallon Tap Water
S.G. = 1.060
1 tsp Fermaido
1/2 packet K1-V1116 yeast
1/2 tsp Tannin

Mixed all ingredients.

8/23/25 (Day 15)
S.G. = 1.000

8/26/25 (Day 18)
Racked off cherries.  Stabilized.  1/2 tsp tannin.  1 charred oak spiral added.

9/9/25 (Day )
backsweetened to 1.012 with the rest of the honey.
Not much oak flavor yet.  Gonna let it set for another couple weeks.

Started on 7/23/25.
I’ve read some books by Gregg before.  Hoping it will be good!

Finished on 8/6/25.
Well this book is based on the true story of Shasta Groenig.
It’s sick.  It’s tough to read.  I didn’t love it.
Serial killer Edward Dunkin kidnapped 2 children after killing their family.

Amazon first read:  Started on 8/6/25 finished on 8/11/25

It was just OK.  Short story maybe 100 pages.  It didn’t really keep my interest very much.

Wolf, the son of a wealthy pod caster is a murderer.  He murders mom’s boyfriends.
Until the night he didn’t finish the murder and his mother called the cops.

Amazon First Read:

Started 6/21/25
Finished 7/6/25
5/10.  I didn’t like this book.  It was all over the place.  Chapters were long.  Characters were well written but the story line just drug on way to much.
Kit and Dianna.  Growing up together, both running cross country, both studying for the same course is school.  Kit does things the right way, Dianna not so much.  She reveals a secret to Kit that unravels Kit’s life for a long time.
They meet up again in the prestigious lab that Kit works in.  Stories come back to haunt and people end up dead.

I’m glad this one is done.  To much fluff and not enough story. 15 days.  5 out of 10.

6/9/25

1 Gallon Batch

64 oz Pineapple Juice
64 oz Great Value Apple Juice
1/2 packet QA23 Lalvin yeast

O.G. = 1.050 ~ 6.5%

Mixed and pitched

6/12/25 (Day 4)
S.G. = 1.000.  Tastes good.  Needs sweetening.  Pineapple comes through nicely.  This one won’t last long in the keg.

6/25/25 (Day 15)
Racked off lease and sweetened with 1 frozen apple juice concentrate and Erythritol.
Added 1/2 tsp tannin to increase mouth feel.
Racked into keg and set carbonation pressure to 20 lbs for a few days to carbonate.
7/7/25
Well I didn’t stabilize before sweetening with the apple juice so it’s still fermenting in the keg. I have to release pressure every day so it doesn’t build up to much.  I didn’t think about that when I added the frozen juice.
The flavor is still nice though from what little I’ve tasted.

8/12/25
Keg is almost gone.  It’s nice with a sweet finish.  It’s a little hot just due to the secondary fermentation.
I’ve already started another batch.  Next time I’ll not let it re-ferment though.

5/13/25 1 Gallon Batch
96 oz Just Black Cherry Juice
32 oz Just Tart Cherry Juice
64 oz Juicy Juice 100% Cherry
1 lbs Great Value Dark Sweet Cherries
2.2 lbs Eucalyptus Honey (from Marshalls)
Lalvin QA23 yeast
1 Tsp Fermaid-O

S.G. = 1.100 (About 12%)

Thawed Cherries.  Added all juices, Fermaid-O and yeast

5/16/25 1 tsp Fermaid-O

5/31/25 S.G. = 1.010

6/4/25
Racked off yeast and berries.
3/4 cup roasted cacao nibs (roasted for 10 min at 350)
Stabilized!

I split this batch in two.  1 Gallon had the nibs and 1 gallon had oak.

6/12/25

Oak flavor not ready yet.  Nib flavor coming through but tastes a little burnt.  It’s kind of thin so some tannin may help with mouth feel.
Needs back sweetened.

6/25/25
Left the oak batch alone.  It needs more time.
The chocolate was racked off nibs and I added honey to back sweeten to 1.038.
The chocolate is ready to bottle>

8/7/25
I combined both gallons.  They taste AMAZING together.  Sometimes you get chocolate and sometimes you get oak.
Bottled and labeled today.  I’d say that after combining the SG is 1.020 so it’s going to have some sweetness to it.