Secret Brewery
and allowed several of us to indulge our entrepreneurial streak. I had ‘borrowed’ a ginger beer plant
from home and set up a small brewery in my house locker, feeding the ‘plant’ with sugar and ginger.
Early some mornings we would creep into the lab and use the excellent glass equipment to decant and
make up bottles of ginger beer in old beer bottles. We were very careful to leave the lab as we found it!
The bottles were stored in my locker, and when mature sold ‘undercover’ to eager fellow students.
As the business expanded, we had to store our maturing bottles down a trapdoor under the laboratory
floor. All went well, although on one occasion a bottle exploded during a science class, fortunately not
heard by the master. I became bolder, and started using the lab for bottling at quiet times in weekends –
until the day that ‘Al’ Wilson the science mater caught me in the act. He was very gracious in only
subjecting me to a severe talking to, but sadly our enterprise came to an end.